Baráz Ádám
Composer
Born on 15 December 1987 in Balassagyarmat. His musical talents showed themselves quite early. He was fascinated by the world of folk songs as a very young child, which also influenced his later works. He began his musical studies as a pupil at the Márk Rózsavölgyi Art School in Balassagyarmat, in the piano class of Ildikó Somogyvári. At the age of 14, he was accepted to study composition, piano and solfege-music theory at the János Richter Music College in Győr, where his teachers were Attila Reményi (composer), Georgina Hennel (piano) and Margit Oláh (piano, chamber music). After graduating from the Conservatoire, he successfully applied to the Paris Conservatoire, but his studies were interrupted for financial reasons.
He is now a freelance composer and tutor, as well as a private teacher of music theory, solfege and music history. As a tutor, he has participated in several regional and national competitions in Hungary, worked with private singers of the Hungarian State Opera House and has collaborated with several art schools.
His work as a composer is wide-ranging. He has more than 120 completed opuses. He has composed solo instrumental, vocal, chamber music and orchestral works, as well as concertos (Concertino for cimbalom and strings, Violin Concerto, Piano Concertino, etc.). An important aspect of his works is traditionalism, i.e. musical ideas based on melody, harmony and rhythm. He has given several composer and piano concerts in Budapest, Balassagyarmat, Győr, Pápa and in many other places in Hungary. On these occasions he has performed works by composers who are less known in Hungary.
His own compositions have been performed in many European countries (Slovakia, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, etc.), Mexico and China, and in the summer of 2012 he gave a highly successful concert in Japan, where he was invited by ballet artist Asuka Kososhi. From autumn 2012 to summer 2016, he gave several chamber music concerts and solo recitals with young artists.
Since 2009, Neuma Music Publishing has published one composition a year in its contemporary series (Toccata for cimbalom, Tiny Things for Tiny Things - for piano, not only for children, Concertino for cimbalom and string orchestra, Scenes for youth string orchestra).
Since 2013 he has been a lecturer and teacher at the Thebes Secondary School of Arts and Crafts. Since 2014, in parallel, he has been a teacher and tutor of piano and chamber music at the Základná Umelecká Škola Balog nad Ipľom - Basic School of Art Ipolybalog in the Highlands. In 2018, he was a tutor of Maria Teresa Uribe Reddemann at the Vienna Konservatorium - Wien in Vienna.
Since autumn 2016, he has been performing with his wife Alisa Baráz, pianist, in the AlisAdam PianoDuo formation. So far they have given numerous four-hand and two-piano concerts in Hungary, Europe and Japan.
He is now a freelance composer and tutor, as well as a private teacher of music theory, solfege and music history. As a tutor, he has participated in several regional and national competitions in Hungary, worked with private singers of the Hungarian State Opera House and has collaborated with several art schools.
His work as a composer is wide-ranging. He has more than 120 completed opuses. He has composed solo instrumental, vocal, chamber music and orchestral works, as well as concertos (Concertino for cimbalom and strings, Violin Concerto, Piano Concertino, etc.). An important aspect of his works is traditionalism, i.e. musical ideas based on melody, harmony and rhythm. He has given several composer and piano concerts in Budapest, Balassagyarmat, Győr, Pápa and in many other places in Hungary. On these occasions he has performed works by composers who are less known in Hungary.
His own compositions have been performed in many European countries (Slovakia, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, etc.), Mexico and China, and in the summer of 2012 he gave a highly successful concert in Japan, where he was invited by ballet artist Asuka Kososhi. From autumn 2012 to summer 2016, he gave several chamber music concerts and solo recitals with young artists.
Since 2009, Neuma Music Publishing has published one composition a year in its contemporary series (Toccata for cimbalom, Tiny Things for Tiny Things - for piano, not only for children, Concertino for cimbalom and string orchestra, Scenes for youth string orchestra).
Since 2013 he has been a lecturer and teacher at the Thebes Secondary School of Arts and Crafts. Since 2014, in parallel, he has been a teacher and tutor of piano and chamber music at the Základná Umelecká Škola Balog nad Ipľom - Basic School of Art Ipolybalog in the Highlands. In 2018, he was a tutor of Maria Teresa Uribe Reddemann at the Vienna Konservatorium - Wien in Vienna.
Since autumn 2016, he has been performing with his wife Alisa Baráz, pianist, in the AlisAdam PianoDuo formation. So far they have given numerous four-hand and two-piano concerts in Hungary, Europe and Japan.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| ... fractions ... (Hommage á Ligeti) | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| 3 Songs (On Poems by Dezső Kosztolányi) | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| 40 Hungarian Folk Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| 5 Hungarian Folk Songs | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| 66 | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| 7 Duos for Violin | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Complaint of the Negro Slave | Chamber Music | 0 |
| What the cat dreams of | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Farewell to Hope | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Civitas Fortissima 100´ | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Concertino for Cimbalom and Strings | Concerto | 2011 |
| Concertino for piano and string orchestra | Concerto | 0 |
| The Soul of A Cat | Symphony orchestra | 2021 |
| Song of a Night | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Elegy | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Fantasie et Tarantella | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Intertwining lives | Music for the theater | 2016 |
| Hommage á BACH | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Hommage á RAVEL | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Scenes | String orchestra | 0 |
| Small Suite | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Small Suite - For children | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Blithesome Dance of Little Devils | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Lachrymae | String orchestra | 2016 |
| Lachrymae / Tears | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Hungarian Reminiscence | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Hungarian Dance | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Ouverture de la Comédie | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Preludium et Toccata No.1 | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Salve Regina | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 0 |
| Sonatine | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Suite Caractéristiques | String orchestra | 0 |
| Solo Sonata | Instrumental solo | 2003 |
| Tobby Dammit | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Toccata | Instrumental solo | 0 |
| Two Pieces | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Long Distance Travels | Chamber Music | 2005 |
| Stories | Chamber Music | 0 |
| Flashes | Instrumental solo | 0 |