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Rudolf Balázs is a Hungarian violinist born in Budapest of a musical family. At the age of six he began his music education playing the piano. Later he changed to the violin and finished his studies at the Szabolcsi Bence Music School with distinction, and started playing with the young early music scene in Budapest. He continued his studies at the Szent István Conservatoire and later at the Weiner Leo Conservatoire in Budapest.
Wanting to explore baroque violin technics he moved to Rome and started his private studies. After spending more than a year in Italy he moved back to Budapest and had intense lessons with violinist Monika Tóth.
In 2010 he began his studies at the Early Music department at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig with Professor Susanne Scholz. In November 2018 Rudolf has been awarded with an MMus Music (Performance, Musicology, Pedagogy) under the guidance of Elizabeth Kenny and his violin teacher Caroline Balding at the University of Southampton.
He appears regularly with fine English and continental ensembles including The Hanover Band, The Sarabande Consort, Orchestra Barocca Lorenzo da Ponte, The Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Barock Orchester, Harmonia dell’Arcadia Bamberg, Ensemble OrQuesta, Musica Poetica and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. He has been appointed concert master of Musica Florens since 2013 in Budapest. He has been a soloist with Salisbury Baroque.
Rudolf works with Talenti Vulcanici, under the support of Il Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini, which discovers and revives forgotten music from the and 18th century Naples. He recently recorded a CD with Talenti Vulcanici for the label Outhere and appeared with the ensemble in December 2018 in Stockholm.
“Rudolf has a deep sound and fine technical skills which make him a solid and reliable violinist. At the same time he shows great understanding and interest for both music and its historical context. ”
LATEST RELEASE:
STABAT MATER – CONCERTO PER FLAUTO
CANTATA “ECCO L’ARA, ECCO IL NUME”
Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, OUT THERE MUSIC
Rudolf plays first violin.
Composed 25 years after the celebrated work of the same name by Pergolesi, and for the same forces, the Stabat Mater by Nicola Logroscino (pronounced “Logròscino”) belongs to the long list of compositions born of the Neapolitan school, beginning with the model by Alessandro Scarlatti (1723). Although inspired by its illustrious precedents, this work distinguishes itself in its strong theatrical character, derived from the author’s long experience in opera (especially comic opera), of which he was a leading figure until the mid-eighteenth century. His Stabat Mater thus seems to be a veritable synthesis of operatic style, whereby lengthy arias alternate with lively duets, and passages of almost folk origins alternate with very simple recitatives. Giulia Semenzato, soprano, and Raffele Pe, countertenor, are the protagonists of this important rediscovery. This album – the first monographic recording dedicated to the composer – includes a brilliant cantata for soprano as well as a concerto for flute (played by Marcello Gatti), a work that represents a precious addition to the repertoire for this instrument. The ensemble “Talenti Vulcanici”, under the direction of Stefano Demicheli, deliver an instrumental performance of stylistic coherence and calibrated virtuosity, following their successful recording, Arias for Nicolino (A427), praised by critics for its “theatrical tautness and élan”, and “a reliable sense of pacing, detail and texture”. - David Vickers, Gramophone, August 2017