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Máté Balázs

cello
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1965
Orchestra
Affetti Musicali / Aura Musicale / Concerto Armonico / Cristofori Trió / Tomasini Quartet
 
He started his cello studies at the age of eight. At the Béla Bartók Highschool of Music he was a student of László Szilvásy. Later he has studied at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy as a student of Tamás Koó (cello), Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág (chamber music); he graduated with award.

Between 1990 and 92 he studied baroque music in the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (Jaap ter Linden) and received an artist's degree. In the Salzburg Mozerteum he was studying chamber music from Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

He was a member of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra between 1987 and 92. He is a founder of a number of early music groups (Concerto Armonico, Trio Christofori and is a cello soloist of some world-famous baroque groups such as: Le Concert des Nations, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Wiener Akademie. As a soloist he has been playing in most of the European countries as well as in Argentina and Brazil. He has recorded all the cello concertos by C.Ph. E. Bach (Hungaroton), the cello concerto by G.M.Monn (Virgin) and the concertos by Vivaldi (Vanguard Classic).

He is a permanent professor at the annual Attersee Barock Akademie in Austria. In 1995 he has founded his own group Aura Musicale.

Awards:
2010 Liszt Award
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1993 Haydn, Joseph: Keyboard Trios
(Haydn, Joseph: Billentyűs triók) 		Hungaroton HCD 31482
1995 Bach, C. Ph. E.: 3 Cello Contertos
(Bach, C. Ph. E.: Csellóversenyek) 		Hungaroton HCD 31337 Own
1996 Bach, C.P.E.: Accompanied Keyboard Sonatas
(Bach, C.P.E.: Kíséretes zongoraszonáták) 		Hungaroton HCD 31619
1997 Kozeluch, Leopold: Triosonatas
(Kozeluch, Leopold: Triószonaták) 		Hungaroton HCD 31665
2000 Valentini, Giuseppe: 7 Bizzaria Op.2 (complete)
(Valentini, Giuseppe: 7 Bizzaria Op.2(összkiadás)) 		Hungaroton HCD 31864
2001 Fifty Years of Hungaroton - String Players
(50 éves a Hungaroton - Vonósművészek (1951-2001)) 		Hungaroton HCD 32091-3 3 CDs
2001 Abel, Carl Friedrich: Six Sonatas Op. 2
(Abel, Carl Friedrich: 6 szonáta Op. 2) 		Hungaroton HCD 31951 Own
First recordings
2002 Cirri, Giovanni Battista: Six Cello Concertos
(Cirri, Giovanni Battista: 6 gordonkaverseny) 		Hungaroton HCD 32125-26 Own
2 CDs
2003 Gluck, Christoph Willibald: Seven Trio Sonatas
(Gluck, Christoph Willibald: Hét Triószonáta) 		Hungaroton HCD 32158
2004 Hungaroton HCD 32257-58 2 CDs / First recording / on period instruments
2005 Kusser, Johann Sigismund: Festin des Muses - Orchesrtal Suits
(Kusser, Johann Sigismund: Festin des Muses - zenekari szvitek) 		Hungaroton HCD 32337
2005 Kraft, Anton: 3 Cello Sonatas Op.1; Grand Duo for Two Cellos Op.5
(Kraft, Anton: Gordonkaszonáták Op. 1. Nos 1-3 (összkiadás); Grand duó két gordonkára Op.5) 		Hungaroton HCD 32292 Own
First recording - on period instruments
2008 Mozart, W. A.: 3 Sonatas K. Anh. 166
(Mozart, W. A.: Három szonáta K. Anh. 166) 		Hungaroton HCD 32408 First recordings
2008 Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: 3 String Quartets Op. 11
(Pleyel, Ignace Joseph: Három vonósnégyes Op. 11) 		Hungaroton HCD 32593 First recordings