Photo: Máté Kérges
Academic degree, university position: DLA, senior lecturer
Subjects: Music theory, Analysis, Basso Continuo, Solfège, History of Hungarian Music, Choir Repertoire, Contemporary Music, Orchestration, Stylistic Practice for Composers, Transposition and Score Reading
Date, place of birth: 1990, Győr
Studies:
2014–2017: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Doctoral School
2013–2014: Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini di Trieste (with Fabio Nieder)
2009–2014: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Composition Department (with Zoltán Jeney)
Secondary Art School, Pécs (with István Győrffy)
Master classes wtih Péter Eötvös, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Heinz Holliger, Toshio Hosokawa, Gyula Csapó
Other activities:
Teacher of the International Kodály Seminar
Editor of the Universal Music Publishing Editio Music Budapest (until 2018 editor-in-chief)
Co-founder of the CentriFuga contemporary music workshop
2014–2016: artistic director of the Hermina Gallery
Founding member of the Capella Silentium Choir
Member of the Artisjus Classical Music Reviewer Committee
member of the board of the Association of Hungarian Composers
Hungarian Envoy of the European Composer’s & Songwriter’s Alliance (ECSA)
Principal concerts:
His compositions have been performed at numerous festivals in Hungary and abroad, for example, Listening to China (Shanghai), Secret Kiss (Tokyo), Manifeste Festival (IRCAM-Paris), ECSA (Brussels), Opus Amadeus (Istanbul), Kurtág&Ungarn (Berne), Ostrava Days, Axes Cracow, St. Gellért Festival, CAFe Budapest, Bartók Seminar, Music of Our Age, Budapest Spring Festival, Mini Festival etc.
In addition, his works have been performed in many European countries, Turkey, Canada, United States, China, Taiwan and Japan
Awards and honors:
2010: University of Theatre and Film Arts, composers’ competition – 1st prize
2011: Liszt Academy composers’ competition – 1st prize
2011: Composer tender published by the National Choir – 1st prize (the jury did not award any other prizes)
In June 2013, he (together with five others) won the tender published by the Eötvös Péter Foundation, as a consequence of which he took part in the composition of the opera ‘Out at Sea’.
2013: New Hungarian Music Forum Composers’ competition – shared 3rd prize
2015: in February, he was one of four young European composers whose works were selected to be performed at the closing concert of the annual conference of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance). In the framework of this, his work Luca Marenzio in Salzburg was performed in BOZAR, Brussels.
In March of the same year he was awarded the distinguished special prize at the ‘GENERACE’ composers’ competition in Ostrava for his work ‘Maze of the world and paradise of the heart’.
In May 2015, as winner of the Italian Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte tender, his work BABE(urope)L was presented by the Berlin Mosaik Ensemble in Banna, Italy.
October 2015: New Hungarian Music Forum Composers’ competition – Chamber music category: 1st prize, Grand orchestra category: shared 2nd prize
2018: I. Beethoven Composition Competition in Buda Castle – 2nd prize
2018: Central European String Quartet Composition Competition – special prize of the Liszt Academy Foundation
2018: Junior Prima Prize
2019: Fidelio Kult50 Prize
2020: GENERACE Composition Competition, Ostrava – 3rd prize
2020: Central European String Quartet Composition Competition – “Support Excellence Award”
2020: I. Salvatore Quasimodo Dalverseny – 1st prize
2021: II. Impronta Composer Competition (Mannheim) – 3rd prize
Contact:
balogh.mt[at]gmail.com