The Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1977 from graduate students of the Liszt Academy. In 1982 the orchestra won first prize in the Belgrade International Chamber Orchestra Competition. Since 1983 they have given a series of concerts every year in the Great Hall of the Music Academy, and they also play in the Budapest Vigadó and the Hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as in the chief concert halls of Hungary. Since 1995 the orchestra have organized the annual International Haydn Festival at Eszterháza [Fértőd] with the participation of well-known Hungarian and other musicians such as Jenő Jandó, Reinhold Friedrich, Miklós Perényi, András Ágoston, Irena Grafenauer, Lajos Lencsés, Béla Drahos, Daniel Nicolas, the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra etc.
The 16-member chamber orchestra is now considered one of the world's leading ensembles, who give concerts world-wide with outstanding soloists from international concert life: György Pauk, Josef Suk, Maria Kliegel, Peter Frankl , Zoltán Kocsis, Stefan Vladar, Michael Martin Kofler, Paula Robison, Guy Touvron and Eugene Rousseau. They orchestra appears regularly in the concert halls of Europe, the United States, South America and Japan. They are frequent visitors at international music festivals: Budapest Spring Festival, Carinthian Summer (Austria), Danubius Fesztival (Italy), Norwich, Canterbury, Cricklade Fesztivals (Anglia) Vallon Festival (Belgium) and Lancut (Poland).
In 2001 the orchestra received Hungary's highest award, the Bartók-Pásztori Prize. In 2002 the orchestra celebrated its 25th anniversary by its annual concerts at the Music Academy, while 2004 brought the tenth anniversary of the International Haydn Festival at Eszterháza-Fértőd.