225 W 99th St, New York, NY 10025
Acclaimed Baroque flutist Benedek Csalog and clavichordist Masayuki Maki will give an exciting recital on April 8, 2025 at 12:30PM at the Saint Michael’s Church in New York. Join us and experience the most beautiful works by C.P.E. Bach, J. J. Quatz and G. Muffat.
About the Artists
Benedek Csalog – Baroque flute
The Hungarian baroque flute player Benedek Csalog was winner of most prestigious early music competitions as the first NFA Baroque Flute Artist Competition and the Musica Antiqua Competition in Brugge, Belgium.
Graduated at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Bart Kuijken.
As a soloist he performs throughout Europe, in the USA, Brazil, Japan and the Middle East, and he has been invited to play as a soloist at important early music festivals, such as Musicora Paris, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Holland Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Innsbruck Festival, St. Petersburg Festival.
He most often performs in the company of a single keyboard player, among others with harpsichordists Léon Berben, Christine Shornsheim, Miklós Spányi and Nicholas Parle, and had iconic artists such as William Christie, Sigiswald Kuijken, Barthold Kuijken or Emma Kirkby as his partners.
Benedek produced 12 CD recordings as soloist including the Complete Flute Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (label Ramée).
He used to teach baroque flute at the Leipzig Music Academy, Germany and at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music, Poland, and gives master-classes in Europe, Russia, Brazil, Armenia and Japan. Before the war he accepted invitations to teach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatorium and the Gnessin School, Moscow.
In addition to his concert activity in 2019 he started to record the complete flute work of J.J. Quantz (ca. 600 works), and published already several sonatas on the project’ homepage The-Quantz-Project.com. In 2023, the label Brilliant Classics decided to take over the project and publish all the sonatas performed by Benedek. The first CD in the series was released last year and contains 7 sonatas.
Masayuki Maki – Clavichord
A thinking musician, Masayuki Maki, plays the clavichord for his family and harpsichord and organ for the public with extensive experience in lecturing and performing in all over the world. His biggest job of the year is being Associate Director of the workshop Rethinking Bach at Tokai University and Queens College. He was formerly Associate Instructor of harpsichord performance and keyboard accompaniment at Indiana University and is now adjunct faculty at Queens College, teaching harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and chamber music.
He tours regularly with recorder artist Eva Legêne. He has also been an artist of Poly Theatre Group, Peking University and the Gulangyu Music Festival. He has recently played with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and various chamber ensembles. Among them, he especially enjoys playing with superb musicians of New York Classical Players. As one of the most trusted harpsichord and organ technicians, he also works at the Metropolitan Opera, Trinity Wall Street, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. His international activities have been sponsored by the Asahi Shimbun Foundation and covered by China Radio International, Asahi Newspaperr, and Early Music America Magazine, Princeton Town Topics, etc. He graduated from Musashino Academia Musicae, the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, and Queens College, and he completed the DMA at Stony Brook University.
