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.

Schallinger-Foidl Artúr


organ, viola da gamba, harpsichord

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1995
Orchestra

 
He was born in Hungary in Budapest where he started playing the piano at the age of five. He started studying the organ with Lilla Szathmáry at Budapest Bartók Béla Conservatory from 2009 to 2013.

During these years he also became interested in early music. In 2010 he won the third and in 2013 the divided first price in the National Organ Competition for Secondary Schools. The same year he was admitted to the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy.
He attended the organ faculty taught by László Fassang, János Pálúr, István Ruppert and Balázs Szabó. He graduated in 2018 (MA organ).

He also studied the harpsichord with Miklós Spányi. In addition to his academical studies, he started playing the viola da gamba with Nóra Kallai.

Since then he has participated in numerous summer courses for early music where he deepened his knowledge of playing the organ with Michel Bouvard, the continuo and chamber music with Soma Dinyés and viola da gamba with Christoph Urbanetz.

Since 2014 he has been playing with early music ensembles, such as the Miszla Baroque Orchestra, Musica Profana (HU), Música Temprana (NL) and Budapest Bach Consort (HU). In 2014 he founded his own ensemble, the Bacchus Consort.

He won the Annie Fischer Scholarship in 2020.