Balogh Ádám
piano
Place of Birth
Pécs
Date of Birth
1997
30 October 1997 (Pécs) -
Ádám Balogh was born on October 30, 1997, in Pécs, into a family of musicians. He began playing the piano at the age of seven at the Liszt Ferenc Music School in Pécs as a student of Ildikó Megyimóreczné Schmidt, and by the age of 13, he had won first prize in eight national competitions. Among these was the Budapest Festival Orchestra's competition for music school students, which resulted in his debut with the orchestra in 2010 under the baton of Iván Fischer, playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor in Budapest. He also won first prize twice in the György Ferenczy Piano Competition organized by the National Music School. Since then, he has performed with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra and the Zugló Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. At the age of 12, he was accepted into the Exceptional Talents Class of the Academy of Music, where he studied under Attila Némethy and Gábor Eckhardt.
He has also returned home successful from numerous international competitions. He is a prize winner at the Szeged Contemporary Music Competition, the Jenő Takács Competition in Austria, the Budapest Chopin Competition, PianoTalents in Milan, Young Virtuoso in Zagreb, The Hague Competition in The Hague, NYCA Worldwide Debut in New York and the Tel Hai Concerto Competition in Israel. He came second in the IKIF festival competition in New York, reached the final of the Cooper International Piano Competition in the US, and won a special prize in the Cliburn Junior category, one of the most prestigious piano competitions held in Texas. In 2019 he came second in the Bartók World Competition.
He has been invited to attend the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy at the renowned Curtis Institute on several occasions as a scholarship winner, and has also participated in the PianoTexas and LAUS Academy festivals. He has taken lessons from teachers such as Dimitry Bashkirov, Zoltán Kocsis, Roger Muraro, Yohaved Kaplinsky, Stanislav Loudenitch, Ching-Yun Hu, Emanuel Krasovsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Douglas Humpherys, Dina Yoffe, Margarita Shevchenko, Alon Goldstein, Wojciech Switala, Mauritio Moretti, Sandra Shapiro, Tamás Ungár, Lívia Rév and Alexander Moutouzkine. In recent years, he has performed in Dortmund, Berlin, Amsterdam, Basel, Dubrovnik, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Lagrasse (France), Rome, and Milan. He also performs frequently on the Hungarian music scene, having appeared at Müpa, BMC, Pesti Vigadó, the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Kodály Center in Pécs.
Between 2016 and 2019 he studied at the Liszt Academy of Music, where his teachers were Attila Némethy, Márta Gulyás and Miklós Perényi. In 2018 he was accepted into Arie Vardi's class at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and later into Dénes Várjon and Gábor Farkas's class at the Liszt Academy of Music. After completing his master's degree, he is currently a doctoral student at the Liszt Academy and a lecturer in the chamber music department.
In 2017 he was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and the first Ifjúsági Tüke Prize of the city of Pécs. In 2019 he received the Annie Fischer Scholarship. In 2022 he won the special prize of the Zoltán Kocsis Award established by the Kocsis-Hauser Foundation.
Ádám Balogh was born on October 30, 1997, in Pécs, into a family of musicians. He began playing the piano at the age of seven at the Liszt Ferenc Music School in Pécs as a student of Ildikó Megyimóreczné Schmidt, and by the age of 13, he had won first prize in eight national competitions. Among these was the Budapest Festival Orchestra's competition for music school students, which resulted in his debut with the orchestra in 2010 under the baton of Iván Fischer, playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor in Budapest. He also won first prize twice in the György Ferenczy Piano Competition organized by the National Music School. Since then, he has performed with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra and the Zugló Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. At the age of 12, he was accepted into the Exceptional Talents Class of the Academy of Music, where he studied under Attila Némethy and Gábor Eckhardt.
He has also returned home successful from numerous international competitions. He is a prize winner at the Szeged Contemporary Music Competition, the Jenő Takács Competition in Austria, the Budapest Chopin Competition, PianoTalents in Milan, Young Virtuoso in Zagreb, The Hague Competition in The Hague, NYCA Worldwide Debut in New York and the Tel Hai Concerto Competition in Israel. He came second in the IKIF festival competition in New York, reached the final of the Cooper International Piano Competition in the US, and won a special prize in the Cliburn Junior category, one of the most prestigious piano competitions held in Texas. In 2019 he came second in the Bartók World Competition.
He has been invited to attend the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy at the renowned Curtis Institute on several occasions as a scholarship winner, and has also participated in the PianoTexas and LAUS Academy festivals. He has taken lessons from teachers such as Dimitry Bashkirov, Zoltán Kocsis, Roger Muraro, Yohaved Kaplinsky, Stanislav Loudenitch, Ching-Yun Hu, Emanuel Krasovsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Douglas Humpherys, Dina Yoffe, Margarita Shevchenko, Alon Goldstein, Wojciech Switala, Mauritio Moretti, Sandra Shapiro, Tamás Ungár, Lívia Rév and Alexander Moutouzkine. In recent years, he has performed in Dortmund, Berlin, Amsterdam, Basel, Dubrovnik, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Lagrasse (France), Rome, and Milan. He also performs frequently on the Hungarian music scene, having appeared at Müpa, BMC, Pesti Vigadó, the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Kodály Center in Pécs.
Between 2016 and 2019 he studied at the Liszt Academy of Music, where his teachers were Attila Némethy, Márta Gulyás and Miklós Perényi. In 2018 he was accepted into Arie Vardi's class at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and later into Dénes Várjon and Gábor Farkas's class at the Liszt Academy of Music. After completing his master's degree, he is currently a doctoral student at the Liszt Academy and a lecturer in the chamber music department.
In 2017 he was awarded the Junior Prima Prize and the first Ifjúsági Tüke Prize of the city of Pécs. In 2019 he received the Annie Fischer Scholarship. In 2022 he won the special prize of the Zoltán Kocsis Award established by the Kocsis-Hauser Foundation.