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The Liszt Institute New York is thrilled to continue its highly beloved classical music concert series titled Hungarian Emerging Artists, featuring one of the most promising young pianists of her generation, Alexandra Balog on February 27, 2024 from 7PM at the Consulate General of Hungary in New York.
The recent recepient of the Junior Prima Prize, of one of Hungary most prestigious artistic awards, Alexandra is a versatile soloist and an avid chamber musician. As a soloist she has performed with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Danube Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music.
Alexandra is the founder and artistic director of the Altalena Music Festival and is one of the leading members of the Altalena Young Artists group, a musical community of outstanding young musicians.
The event is free of charge but registration is mandatory. Please, find the registration on the right side of this page.
PROGRAM
- Franz Schubert: Impromptu in f minor, Op. 142
- Zoltán Kodály: Transylvanian song
- Zoltán Kodály: Transylvanian lament (Székely keserves)
- Frédéric Chopin: Two Mazurkas; Op. 17/4 and Op. 33/4
- Frédéric Chopin: Fantasie impromptu, Op. 66.
- Franz Schubert: Impromptu in A-flat major, Op. 90/4
- Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
About the Artist
Winner of the 2017 Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz, Alexandra Balog graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2019. In 2022, Alexandra won the first prize at the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition La Nucia, Spain, and has given solo recitals since at the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music, the Philharmonic Hall in Skopje, the Berlinische Galerie, the Steinway Salon in Vienna, the Hungarian Embassy in New York, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and the Universidad de Caribe in Cancún amongst many others. Alexandra graduated in 2023 from the University of Music in Graz, where she obtained an Artist Diploma degree studying with Professor Markus Schirmer. Her previous teachers in the music conservatories include Ian Fountain, Zoltán Fejérvári and Erzsébet Belák.