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.

Balogh Sándor


Composer

Place of Birth
Sátoraljaújhely
Date of Birth
1958

 
Sándor Balogh was born in 1958 in Sátoraljaújhely (North-Eastern Hungary). Having completed his secondary school studies in Miskolc (where his teacher was Mrs.Ferenc Nemes) he was admitted to the Franz Liszt Music Academy of Budapest where he studied with László Ujfalusi and graduated in 1982.

From 1980 to 1992 he was member of the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio. He performs regularly in the Luxembourg-based "European Soloists" Orchestra and with the Pro Brass chamber music formation.

He became member of the trombone section of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1992. Sándor Balogh pursues a wide-ranging activity also as a composer. He has orchestrated and arranged a lot of compositions of lighter music to different instrumental groups, ranging from string quartet to symphony orchestra. As a composer he won several prizes at international competitions of radio stations: 1995 Monte Carlo - 1st prize, 1997 Brno - 2nd prize, 2001 Sanghai - 3rd prize.

 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
2001 Cornologia 2(000) Hungaroton HCD 31950 Own