One of the most talented pianists of his generation, J\u00f3zsef Balog was born in 1979 in Budapest. Under the guidance of his father, he started learning the piano at the age of four. He studied for a piano teaching and chamber music diploma at the Liszt Ferenc Music University (Budapest) under Prof. Annam\u00e1ria Krause Bodoky, graduating in 2001. His graduate studies were under the direction of Prof. Jand\u00f3 Jen\u0151; . Along with the standard piano repertoire, he plays works by neglected composers (such as Burghardt, Bentzon, Rodrigo and Tansman) and he also plays jazz music and his own transcriptions. As a student, he took part in many music competitions, winning first prizes in several national competitions and also first prize at the Bart\u00f3k-Liszt International Piano Competition (Budapest 2001), Grand Prix at the Aleksander Tansman Music Competition (Lodz 2002), second prize at the Brahms International Music Competition (P\u00f6rtschach 2004), the special \u2018press\u2019 prize for the best performance of Liszt\u2019s Piano Sonata at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (Utrecht 2005), first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (P\u00e9cs 2007), and second prize at the Carlo Soliva International Piano Competition (Casale Monferrato 2008). J\u00f3zsef Balog was given the Annie Fischer Award by the Hungarian Ministry for Culture in 2005. Since 2003 he has taught piano and singing at Ferenc Liszt Music University (Budapest).<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-86182","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["hu","en"],"languages":{"hu":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":{"old_id":"795","rovid_nev":"J\u00f3zsef Balog","katalogus_nev":"J\u00f3zsef Balog","kiemelt_kep":{"ID":116081,"id":116081,"title":"DSC_0357 copy","filename":"Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-scaled.jpg","filesize":418615,"url":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/artists\/balog-jozsef\/dsc_0357-copy\/","alt":"","author":"951590","description":"","caption":"","name":"dsc_0357-copy","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":86182,"date":"2020-09-30 13:08:39","modified":"2020-09-30 13:08:39","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1702,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-300x199.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":199,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-768x511.jpg","medium_large-width":640,"medium_large-height":426,"large":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-1024x681.jpg","large-width":640,"large-height":426,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-1536x1021.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1021,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-2048x1362.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1362,"person-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-165x165.jpg","person-size-width":165,"person-size-height":165,"person-size-2":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-165x220.jpg","person-size-2-width":165,"person-size-2-height":220,"album-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-263x263.jpg","album-size-width":263,"album-size-height":263,"news-lead-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-360x203.jpg","news-lead-size-width":360,"news-lead-size-height":203,"director-index-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-359x450.jpg","director-index-size-width":359,"director-index-size-height":450,"person-lead-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-555x555.jpg","person-lead-size-width":555,"person-lead-size-height":555,"slider-size":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Balog-Jozsef3@foto_Rieger-Attila-1600x722.jpg","slider-size-width":1600,"slider-size-height":722}},"bevezeto_szoveg":"
A fiatal zongoristagener\u00e1ci\u00f3 egyik legtehets\u00e9gesebb tagja a vil\u00e1g h\u00e1rom kontinens\u00e9nek t\u00f6bb mint h\u00fasz orsz\u00e1g\u00e1ban koncertezett m\u00e1r kamarazen\u00e9szk\u00e9nt \u00e9s sz\u00f3listak\u00e9nt egyar\u00e1nt. <\/p>\n","hangszerek":"{:hu}zongora{:}{:en}piano{:}","szemely_kategoria":"{:hu}vend\u00e9gm\u0171v\u00e9sz{:}{:en}guest artist{:}","oldal_megjelenes":[],"videok":false,"kiemeles_menube":false,"szolamvezeto":false,"szulesi_szabadsagon":false},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/86182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filharmonikusok.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}