Balázs Máté

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Balázs Máté (* 1965 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian cellist and teacher who works in the field of historical performance practice .

Live and act

Balázs Máté began learning to play the cello at the age of eight. From 1979 to 1983 he studied at the "Béla Bartók Musikgymnasium" with László Szilvásy , and from 1983 to 1988 at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, with Tamás Koó cello and with György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados chamber music. He passed his diploma with distinction. From 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the "Hungarian National Philharmonic". From 1990 to 1992 he studied baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague ( Jaap ter Linden ) and graduated as a performing musician. In the early 1990s he took part in chamber music courses with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Salzburg Mozarteum . He became a founding member of the baroque orchestra "Concerto armonico" and the "Trio Cristofori", and in 1996 he founded the baroque ensemble "Aura musicale", of which he is director.

After completing his studies in the baroque cello, he began his international activities. As a solo cellist he appears with internationally known baroque orchestras such as the “Le Concert des Nations” ( Jordi Savall ), the “Wiener Akademie” ( Martin Haselböck ), Les Musiciens du Louvre ( Marc Minkowski ), the Neue Hofkapelle Munich ( Christoph Hammer ) , the chamber ensemble “The Rare Fruits Council” alongside Manfredo Kraemer and Pablo Valetti , the Cappella Mediterranea ( Leonardo García Alarcón ) or the Ensemble Harmonie Universelle ( Florian Deuter ), the Concentus Musicus Wien ( Nikolaus Harnoncourt ). Around 2002 he founded the "Quartetto Luigi Tomasini" with László Paulik, Erzsébet Rácz and Éva Posvanecz. He made his Austrian debut in 2000 in the great hall of the Wiener Musikverein with the 1st cello concerto in C major and the Sinfonia concertante in B flat major by Joseph Haydn under the direction of Christopher Hogwood . As a continuo specialist, he is in great demand for oratorios and operas. In 2010 he was awarded the Liszt Prize, the Hungarian State Prize for special merits in musical life. As a soloist he has given concerts in almost all European countries and overseas. For Hungaroton he has made numerous CD recordings (including many world premieres) as a cello soloist and director of Aura Musicale. With this ensemble he makes regular guest appearances throughout Europe and has also conducted oratorios and operas.

Aura Musicale, 2017

Balázs Máté plays the baroque and modern cello, violoncello piccolo and the basse de violon. Since 2004 he has been a cello teacher with the Baroque Orchestra of the European Union (EUBO) and from 2010 to 2012 Balázs Máté was professor for baroque cello at the Leipzig University of Music . '

Discography (selection)

as soloist and director of Aura Musicale:

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with the Quartetto Luigi Tomasini:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the website of the Munich court orchestra ( memento from January 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Biography on the website of the "Austria Barock Academy"
personal data
SURNAME Máté, Balázs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian cellist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest