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.

Bolcsó Bálint


electronic effects

Place of Birth
Date of Birth
1979
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STUDIES
1993-1997 Bartók Secondary School Budapest, composition faculty, István Fekete Győr

1997-2006 Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, composition faculty, György Orbán, Zoltán Jeney, Andrea Szigetvári. Master's degree in composition

1999-2006 Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, composition (Iván Erőd, Michael Jarrell) and electroacoustic composition (Dieter Kaufmann)

2004 Conservatoire Nat. Sup. de Musique et de Danse Paris, ERASMUS programme, Frédéric Durieux

COURSES, COMPETITIONS
1998-2005 International Bartók Seminar Szombathely, Hungary: composition courses with Dennis Smalley, Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa, Manuel Hidalgo, Martin Bresnick, Jonathan Harvey, Mesias Maiguashca, Johannes Schöllhorn

1999 Prague-Vienna-Budapest Summer Academy Reichenau, Austria: composition course with József Soproni

2003 Confluencias Miniaturas competition Huelva, Spain: electroacoustic piece Farblos makes it into the final round

2005 9th International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria, Richard Boulanger (with support of KulturKontakt Austria)

2006 Invited to Weimar, Germany to the final selection for the Franz Liszt Scholarship of the Hochschule für Musik

2006 Farblos wins second prize at the electroacoustic composition contest Short Cuts: Beauty of ZKM Karlsruhe, in the framework of World New Music Festival Stuttgart, Germany

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY, HIGHLIGHTS
1998 Static Noise, Pécs, Hungary: guest composer

1999-2001 Music Without Borders in the Heart of Europe: concerts in Slovakia, Austria and Hungary

1999-2000 In Concreto in TRAFÓ - House of Contemporary Arts Budapest and Institute for Contemporary Arts Dunaújváros, Hungary: electroacoustic piece Talpalatnyi Csend (A Foothold of Silence) included in the "sound exhibition"

2001 Szene Bunte Wähne, Horn, Austria: guest artist

2003, 2004 Budapest Autumn Festival, Wien Modern: performances of new pieces

2004 The Juilliard School, New York: bird eye performed in the Budapest - New York Twin Concerts

2005 Making New Waves, Budapest: first performance of Ének, Hold, Gondolat (Song, Moon, Mind), commissioned by the festival

2005 Visszatérés (Return), directed by Linda Dombrovszky): music for the short film within a project led by Új Dialóg Stúdió

2005 Budapest Autumn Festival, in coproduction with Workshop Foundation: music for the dance play 5 (choreographer: Nina Umniakov)

2005 Diploma concert at the Academy of Music Budapest

AWARDS, GRANTS
2003, 2006 Zoltán Kodály Composer Grant (Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, Hungary)
2003 Theodor Körner Prize (Austria)


Bálint Bolcsó�s works include music for film and dance, radio plays, sound installations as well as electroacoustic, vocal and instrumental pieces ranging from solo to symphonic settings. He is also active as a computer improvisation artist.