Balázs Horváth

Born: 1976, Budapest

Academic degree, university position: DLA, associate professor

Subjects: Free composition – main subject, Instrumentalization – main subject, Counterpoint, Compulsory composition, Solfège-Music theory, Analysis, Transposing and Score Reading

Studies:
1999: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – composition major, teachers: Zoltán Jeney, Attila Bozay, János Vajda
1999-2002: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Doctoral School – composition major
2005: awarded DLA. Title of dissertation: Types of spatial music in the musical history of the second half of the 20th century, and the presence of musical space in composition.

Master classes:
1994-2007: Attended lectures by Dr. Richard Cornell, Louis Andriessen, Robert HP Platz, Rodney Sharmen, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarell, Marco Stroppa, Denis Smalley, Andrea Szigetvári, Péter Eötvös, Karlheinz Stockhausen and László Tihanyi as participant of international master classes

Teaching activities:
from 2002: professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
2013, 2016: invited professor or assistent at the composition courses of the Péter  Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation

Principal concerts:
Concerts and presentations at the Budapest Autumn Festival, Mini Festival, Presenting New Hungarian Works, Hommage a Bartók – Concert cycle 2006, Amsterdam Gaudeamus Music Week, Villeneuve-les-Avignon 25th Centre Acanthes festival, Szombathely Bartók Festival, Making New Waves, ISCM World Music Days (2003, 2009, 2011, 2016) festival, London Music of Today, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, FOCUS! 2007: The Magyar Legacy (New York), Music in Current (Tokyo), Aspects de Musique d’Aujourd’hui (Caen, France), Mlada Praha, Musikprotokoll (Graz), Biennale für Neue Musik (Frankfurt), Contemporary Folk (Nizhniy-Novgorod), Átlátszó Hang Újzenei Fesztivál ('Transparent Sound' New Music Festival).

2004, 2007: Organizer and one of the artistic directors of the joint project of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and Juilliard School of Music, New York. He also took part in the project as a conductor.

He is the founder of the THReNSeMBLe contemporary music group and ha was its artistic director between 2009 and 2019.

Between 2000 and 2002 he received the Kodály Zoltán composition fellowship.

List of own compositions performed at the concert: Hungarian, English

List of performers: Hungarian, English

Recordings:
balazshorvath.com/mp3

Composer activities – list of principal works:

Orchestral works:
2017: Plunderphonic intermezzi
2014: Fragmenti «Ja gulyala veselo»
2013: die ReAlisierung einer komPosition
2012: I got Riff
2011: Double Cadence avec deux Doubles
2008-2011: Faust Groteske
2008-2009: (Tec)tonic
2008: Looking Back
2006: BORROWED IDEAS
2003/2005: Commentaries to Gabrieli
1998-99: La Corsa Grande dei Clarinetti

Ensemble:
2015: pikokosmos = > millikosmos
2014: Broken con(sor)tinuity
2013: Werkmusik
2011: Assemblage
2007: Divergent (excerpt)
2007: POLY (excerpt)
2004: MAGNETS V (four)
2003: MAGNETS IVa (round and round) [Original version]
2003: MAGNETS IVb (round and round) [Huddersfield version]
2001: MAGNETS III (continuation)
2000: MAGNETS I/b (Crux)
2000: MAGNETS II (rkonzert)
1996-98: On the see-saw...
1997-98: Ten-da(e)nc(i)es

Chamber music:
2018: PLAYLIST für meine Reise nach Gera
2016: (untitled)
2016: egyet(NEM)értés – (DIS)agreement
2014: Dualith
2013-2014: translation exercises (Chorus)
2011: Short circuits
2010: Roundtrip
2010: Wisteria
2009: Fake-polyphony
2008: 4 in 1
2008: PIN Code Variations
2008: La continuita interrotta (a Elliott Carter)
2007: Circusoid
2005: Waiting for…
2005: Puzzle
2004: Again and again and...
2002-2003: and even the ice is breaking up around you
2002: Symmetry-asymmetry
2001-2002: From 3 to 10
2001: Quintet for three performers
2000-2001: Intermezzo
1999: Alter ego
1996: Motorway Junction

Solo works:
2019: ADM (quasi chaconne)
2018: Surface studies
2017: character
2014: BEAN
2012: Linear – on the 70th birthday of Zoltán Jeney
2011: Metamorphose – für Péter Tornyai
2011: Points – Lines (to Sacher via Boulez)
2007: La strada ghiaiosa - per il sessantaquinto compleanno di Zoltán JENEY
2004: For Milestones
2002-2003: ... a very simple case:

Vocal works:
2014: Kitsch (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch_art)
2013: die ReAlisierung einer komPosition
2010: With Man’s Eyes / With Women’s Eyes
2006: ... love???
2003-2004: Madrigal
2002: lines, works, letters
2000: hhAb
1997: Time Songs
1995: Suite burlesque

Electronic compositions:
2003: with reference to a case
2002: Jeánnonó

Arbitrary instrumentation:
2016-2017: Kánonok a Musikalisches Opfer (J. S. Bach) nyomán (Középregiszter-kánon szinuszhang "glissando"-val; Eltűnő-kánon szinuszhang kiegészítéssel; Negyedhangos rákkánon)

Arrangements, instrumentations:
2016: Igor Stravinsky–Horváth Balázs: Piano-Rag-Music
2015: Erwin Schulhoff–Horváth Balázs: Hot Sonate
2010: G. Gershwin-Horváth B.: Summertime
2008, 2010: J. Lennon-P. McCartney-Horváth B.: When I'm sixty-four

For a full list of works, click here!
 

Awards, prizes and honors:
2000-2002: Zoltán Kodály scholarship for composers
2004: Benedek Istvánffy prize of the Association of Hungarian Composers for MAGNETS IV (round and round)
2007: Benedek Istvánffy prize of the Association of Hungarian Composers for Waiting for...
2007: Ferenc Erkel Prize
2008: 1st prize at the ‘In memoriam György Ligeti’ Composers’ Competition, Berlin for POLY
2009: 2nd prize at the composers’ competition of the New Hungarian Music Forum 2009 for BORROWED IDEAS
2011: 1st prize at the composers’ competition of the New Hungarian Music Forum
2011: 2nd prize at the composers’ competition of the New Hungarian Music Forum 2011 for (Tec)tonic
2011: 1st prize at the composers’ competition of the New Hungarian Music Forum 2011 for Faust and Friends in the Magic Castle
2013: 2nd prize at the composers’ competition of the New Hungarian Music Forum 2013 for die ReAlisierung einer komPosition
2017: 2nd prize on the New Hungarian Music Forum 2017 for the Plunderphonic intermezzi

Website: www.balazshorvath.com

Contact: horibali[at]gmail.com