Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite - The Death of Aase - Balázs Bánfi

Описание: Balázs Bánfi conductor
Savaria Symphony Orchestra

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Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite - The Death of Ase

„It is rare to meet such a talented and dedicated young conductor nowadays.”
Christian Buchmann – Managing Director, Vienna Chamber Orchestra

2017 Balázs Bánfi gave his debut in Canada with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Strauß Symphony of Canada in the framework of Salute to Vienna. He had already conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra when he was a student in the concert studio of the ORF Radiokulturhaus. He was immediately reengaged by the orchestra; next time he led them in the Vienna Konzerthaus, where he performed – besides Mozart, Debussy and Vasks – the premiere of Diego Collatti’s Tres piezas para orquesta de cuerdas.

In Hungary he conducted several times in the Palace of Arts, Budapest and the Liszt Academy.

Besides his university studies, he had the chance to take master classes of world-renowned conductors Zubin Mehta, Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, PéterEötvös, Bertrand de Billy and David Zinman and has been member of the Gammy Awarded Arnold Schoenberg Chor.

2011-2014 he has been conductor of the Szolnok City Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore he has worked in Hungary with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, and the Zugló Philharmonia – Szent István Király Symphony Orchestra the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra and the Tatabánya Symphony Orchestra.

Balázs Bánfi accentuates also to the musical education of young people. Since 2005 he is artistic director of the Ritmus Concert Band. Among different prices and awards they took 2010 the 1st Price at the 1st International WASBE Competition for Concert Bands in Balatonfüred, Hungary.

He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2009, having majored in music education and choral conducting and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2012 in orchestral conducting.


„He knows exactly what he wants to hear from the orchestra makes music at the highest level.“
Tamás Bátor – Program manager for Co-productions, Palace of Arts Budapest