Máté Balogh

Máté Balogh (born 9 November 1990 in Győr) is a Hungarian composer and university lecturer at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.^[1]^[2]^{[circular reference]}

He studied composition at the Liszt Academy with Zoltán Jeney and the with . He was a mentee of Péter Eötvös.^[3] His pieces has been performed all over the world, including Europe, Turkey, Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States.^[4] He was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and Artisjus Prize.^[4]

He is the composer of Zsófia Szilágyi's film entitled One day (2018), which was awarded the Fipresci Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2018.^[5]^[6]

Works (selection)[]

2019: Alabama March (for symphony orchestra) - dedicated to the bicentennial of State Alabama.^[7]
2019: One Hundred Famous View of Edo (for bass-instruments and 12 gongs) - on the 150th Anniversary of Japanese-Hungarian Diplomatic Relations^[8]
2018: Kipling's Speech (for recitation and chamber group) - commissioned by the Karl-Amadeus-Hartmann Gesellschaft, Munich^[9]
2017: Odes (for traditional chinese orchestra) - commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China^[10]
2016: Jam Quartet (for flute, triangles, piano and cello)^[11]
2015: 7 Ant(hem)s (for cello and piano) - Hommage to Péter Esterházy^[12]
2015: Kikaku&Basho (for soprano sax and harp) - on a zen-buddhist koan^[13]
2012: Luca Marenzio in Salzburg (for string orchestra) - awarded by ECSA^[14]