Karosi Bálint
Composer
Bálint Karosi is an award-winning concert organist, composer and improviser. He has appeared as an organ recitalist at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Béla Bartók National concert Hall in Budapest, the Rudolforium in Prague, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Victoria Hall in Geneva and the Essen Philarmonie, and has been a soloist at the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival, the International Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Boston Early Music Festival and the Magadino Organ Festival in Switzerland. He has released three CDs by Hungaroton, Dorian and Dulcian labels. His compositions include chamber music, cantatas, art songs, works for the organ and sacred and orchestral music. Recent commissions include Existentia in memoriam Sándor Weöres, for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, to be premiered on January 24, 2015, and a Triple Concerto for Harp, Guitar and Cimbalom is scheduled for a performance in April, 2015 in Budapest by Musicians Libres.
Balint is a committed church musician, who leads performances of choral and instrumental works at the First Lutheran Church of Boston, where he has served as Minister of Music since 2007. He is co-artistic director of the popular Boston Bach Birthday since 2008 to celebrate the composers birthday with a series of concerts, in partnership with other art organizations in Boston.
Balint is a committed church musician, who leads performances of choral and instrumental works at the First Lutheran Church of Boston, where he has served as Minister of Music since 2007. He is co-artistic director of the popular Boston Bach Birthday since 2008 to celebrate the composers birthday with a series of concerts, in partnership with other art organizations in Boston.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Existentia - Orchestral Works by Bálint Karosi | Hungaroton | HCD 32805 |
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| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "Consonances" - Concerto for Organ and Symphony Orchestra | Concerto | 2007 |
| "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2020 |
| Arabic Suite | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| Azaan | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| Bach Studies, BWV 1039 | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Cantilena for Clarinet and Organ | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Choralair Symphony | Wind orchestra | 2017 |
| Ciaccone in C | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Compline Setting | Mixed choir | 2019 |
| Concerto after Vivaldi | Chamber Music | 2017 |
| Concordia Symphony | Wind orchestra | 2016 |
| Dancescapes | Orchestral work | 2013 |
| Double Concerto | Concerto | 2021 |
| Easter Overture | Chamber orchestra | 2019 |
| Endymion en Latmos | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2005 |
| Festival Overture | Symphony orchestra | 2016 |
| Est Amor | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2007 |
| Etudes #1 and #2 - For Organ | Instrumental solo | 2005 |
| Existentia – In Memoriam Sándor Weöres | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 2015 |
| Exoplanets | String orchestra | 2015 |
| Bassoon Sonata | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Fantasy "Ut-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La" | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| Four Preludes and Fugues on B-A-C-H | Instrumental solo | 2022 |
| Harpsichord Concerto | Concerto | 2017 |
| Triple Concerto | Concerto | 2015 |
| Seven Fragments for Solo Clarinet | Instrumental solo | 2014 |
| I am Content | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2021 |
| Symphony No. 1 on a Chorale by Béla Bartók | Instrumental solo | 2012 |
| Concerto No. 2 | Concerto | 2016 |
| Kodály Triptych | Instrumental solo | 2022 |
| Kyrie, Gloria | Choir and chamber orchestra | 2008 |
| Lines on a Page | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 2014 |
| Lonely Hearts | Opera | 2020 |
| Lord of Our Fathers | Choir and chamber ensemble | 2011 |
| Ne Timeas Maria | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2011 |
| Noel Nouvelet | Choir and chamber orchestra | 2018 |
| Now All the Vaults of Heaven | Choir and chamber orchestra | 2018 |
| Nunc Dimittis | Female choir | 2013 |
| O Come, O Come, Emmanuel | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2020 |
| Organ Book No. 1 | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| Organ Concertino No. 3 | Concerto | 2017 |
| Orpheus and Euridice | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2010 |
| Perpetuum Mobile | Instrumental solo | 2018 |
| Poems of the Night | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2013 |
| Requiem | Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra | 2021 |
| Récit et Toccata | Chamber Music | 2014 |
| Sanguine - For 15 Instruments | Chamber Music | 2012 |
| Sonata da Chiesa | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Syöjätär | Chamber orchestra | 2023 |
| Sonata in Memory of Béla Bartók | Instrumental solo | 2008 |
| The Final Wait | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2014 |
| The Lord Bless You | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| The Question | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2017 |
| The Song of Wandering Aengus | Mixed choir | 2014 |
| This is the Day the Lord Has Made | Choir and chamber ensemble | 2016 |
| Toccata and Fugue on "How Firm a Foundation" | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Tromba Lontana | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Veni Creator Spiritus | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2006 |
| Veni Creator Spiritus - For Organ | Instrumental solo | 2002 |
| Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra | Concerto | 2019 |
| Words of Beginning | Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra | 2013 |