Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Csalog Benedek


flute

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1965

 
Benedek Csalog has started his training on piano, recorder and later the modern flute. At 16, he began playing the Baroque flute. He has founded the Baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico Budapest. After earning his diploma in modern flute, Mr.Csalog continued his studies in The Hague with Barthold Kuijken, and he was awarded a diploma in Baroque flute in 1991. Since 1987 he has appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the world, including most of the European countries, North & South America and the Middle East. Mr. Csalog has performed as a soloist on the Holland Festival and the Festival Old Music in Innsbruck. He has won the 1st International Baroque Flute Competition in Orlando (1995), and the Brugge Concours Musica Antiqua with Léon Berben as accompanist (1996). Currently he teaches Baroque flute at the Conservatory of Leipzig, and gives courses in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlans, Brazil and Hungary at the Szombathely Academy of Old Music.