Balázs Székely
Position at the Institute: Lecturer
Subjects taught: Score Reading, Composition, Correpetition
Education:
- Bartók Conservatory of Music – Budapest 1984-1990 (piano, composition, music theory)
- Liszt Academy of Music – Budapest 1990-1995 (degree in piano, music education, music theory and choral conducting). His teachers were among others András Kemenes, Erzsébet Legányné Hegyi, József Maklári, István Párkai.
- University of Music in Vienna, 1995-2000 (orchestral conducting by Leopold Hager and vocal accompanying by David Lutz)
- Masterclasses of Attila Némethy, Daniel Immelman and Charles Spencer.
Activities:
Since 1998 he is working at Leó Weiner Conservatory of Music as accompanist and he has taught at the Liszt Academy 1999-2005, too. Since 2012 he is teaching chamber music, piano, score reading at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét and was accompanist at the 27th, 28th and 29th International Kodály Seminar.
Between 2000 and 2006 he was guest teacher with his wife at the Music Education Department of Central Conservatory of Music, in Beijing as well as at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2001) and at the Canton International Summer Music Academy (2006).
He has given solo and chamber music concerts in Austria, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and China.
Publications:
László Weiner: Triple concert - with Mónika Hegedűs, László Fehérvári, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducting by Tamás Vásáry (CD)
“Poetry of the old ages” – Vocal compositions of Csemiczky, Kodály, Farkas, Szalai és Vajda. Male Choir “Honvéd”, conducting by Kálmán Strausz.