Horváth Bálint
Composer
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1986
Bálint Horváth was born in 1986 in Budapest. He plays at the piano since he was 7 years old. Between 2000 and 2004, he studied at the Bartók Béla Secondary School of Music and after that he began composer studies in the class of István Fekete Győr. In 2004, he was the winner of the National Composer Competition. In spring of the same year he graduated and won the Péter Robitsek Memorial Prize.
Between 2004 and 2010, he was a student of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as a pupil of György Orbán. In the spring of 2007, he became second at the contest of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, in September he appeared at the Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Festival in Amsterdam and in November at the Old Music Academy, after that at the Juilliard School in NY, his piece called „Naplójegyzetek”(Notes) piped up.
In the April of 2009 at his graduation concert, his piano works, orchestrated song cyles and his piece called „Three pieces to Orchestra” was at the center of the graduation and the last one was presented by The Radio Orchestra. In 2010, he got an honoured diploma. In his dissertation he focused on the late piano works of Ferenc Liszt.
His interest in literature especially in the last years drove him to the genre of songs accompanied by piano. Beside the songs, his solo and chamber works appeared at the professorship concerts and at the contemporary Hungarian forums. For exaple at the Contemporary Youth Music Nights (2004, 2006, 2007), at the Budapest Autumn Festival (2005, 2006, 2007), at the Savaria Bartók Festival (2008), at the István Vántus Contemporary Days in Szeged (2009), at the Béla Bartók Memorial House’s : Music Academy of Bartók series (2009) and in the Hungarian Radio (2005). He is a frequented displayer of his own works especially with piano.
Since the fall of 2010 he is a doctorate student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. His guide and mentor is Zoltán Jeney.
see also: Horváth Bálint - piano
Between 2004 and 2010, he was a student of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as a pupil of György Orbán. In the spring of 2007, he became second at the contest of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, in September he appeared at the Gaudeamus Contemporary Music Festival in Amsterdam and in November at the Old Music Academy, after that at the Juilliard School in NY, his piece called „Naplójegyzetek”(Notes) piped up.
In the April of 2009 at his graduation concert, his piano works, orchestrated song cyles and his piece called „Three pieces to Orchestra” was at the center of the graduation and the last one was presented by The Radio Orchestra. In 2010, he got an honoured diploma. In his dissertation he focused on the late piano works of Ferenc Liszt.
His interest in literature especially in the last years drove him to the genre of songs accompanied by piano. Beside the songs, his solo and chamber works appeared at the professorship concerts and at the contemporary Hungarian forums. For exaple at the Contemporary Youth Music Nights (2004, 2006, 2007), at the Budapest Autumn Festival (2005, 2006, 2007), at the Savaria Bartók Festival (2008), at the István Vántus Contemporary Days in Szeged (2009), at the Béla Bartók Memorial House’s : Music Academy of Bartók series (2009) and in the Hungarian Radio (2005). He is a frequented displayer of his own works especially with piano.
Since the fall of 2010 he is a doctorate student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. His guide and mentor is Zoltán Jeney.
see also: Horváth Bálint - piano
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 |
Válogatás a Doktori Iskola hallgatóinak koncertfelvételeiből - Zeneszerzés DLA program (2006-2013)
(A selection of the best concert performances of the doctoral students - Composition DLA programme (2006-2013)) |
Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem |
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ænigma | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| “I die to be born” (DEAC No. 8) | Instrumental solo | 2023 |
| ...about the soul… | Instrumental solo | 2022 |
| ...spirat ventus in illum... | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2006 |
| 5 Pezzi per Zimbalo ungherese ed orchestra da camera | Chamber orchestra | 2019 |
| Albumblatt für Anna Deák (DEAC No. 3) | Instrumental solo | 2016 |
| Albumblätter | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Anabase | Symphony orchestra | 2017 |
| English Songs (Version with Chamber Ensemble) | Solo voice(s) with chamber orchestra | 2009 |
| English Songs (Version with Piano) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2009 |
| Apple Tree, Western Wall... | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2005 |
| Buried by Big Snow | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2010 |
| Canon | Chamber Music | 2019 |
| Cassandra Letters | Chamber Music | 2016 |
| Choralvorspiel (Freu´ dich sehr, o meine Seele) | Instrumental solo | 2005 |
| DEAC No. 2 | Chamber Music | 0 |
| DEAC No. 3 (Albumblatt) | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| DEAC No. 4 | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| DEAC No. 6 | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| DEAC-variations | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| But We Will Run Again | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2016 |
| Die Flut | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2008 |
| Exit [Pear Tree] | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| F-U-G-A 10 | !to be determined | 0 |
| Feldeinsamkeit | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2006 |
| Flowers & Thunderbolts | Instrumental solo | 2009 |
| Four Preludes on White Notes | Chamber Music | 2021 |
| Come, Death whispers to Schubert | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2017 |
| Hommage à Stravinsky | Instrumental solo | 2007 |
| Hymenæus | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2008 |
| Three Movements for Mixed Choir | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2011 |
| Three Pieces for Orchestra | Symphony orchestra | 2009 |
| Jasz Songs | !to be determined | 0 |
| Dice | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2016 |
| Dice, No. 2 | Instrumental solo | 2021 |
| Choral | Mixed choir | 2006 |
| Your Two Eyes | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Lorca Lives in New York City | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Hungarian Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2009 |
| Melyben Balassi módján fohászkodik | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2017 |
| Form Moldova (In memoriam Kallós Zoltán) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2019 |
| Pages from My Diary | Ensemble | 2007 |
| Ticking of the Sun-dial | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2022 |
| Non dite mai (In memoriam Valentin Bakfark) | Chamber Music | 2021 |
| Four Chorals - Hommage á Györkös Mányi Albert | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| Négyen ballagtunk - Chansonette | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2007 |
| Oratio – de St. Ignatius Loyola | Mixed choir | 2008 |
| Songs by Ottó Orbán | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2017 |
| Pavane | Chamber Music | 2024 |
| Preludium and Motet | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Requiem per pianoforte (For András Ferenc Kovács) | Instrumental solo | 2024 |
| Rondeau | Chamber Music | 2021 |
| Salvator Mundi (hommage á John Bull) | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Sarah | Opera | 2014 |
| Serenade, in memoriam Ladislaus Dalos | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Suite per Zimbalo ungherese | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Deer Time | Instrumental solo | 2023 |
| I Took Statues | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2005 |
| Világtojásban | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2016 |
| Song of the Wanderer | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2011 |
| Whither Thou Goest I Will Go | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| from heat, from light... - Organum in memoriam Péter Eötvös | Chamber Music | 2024 |