Balázs Horváth – Composer

Remarkable representative of the young generation of Hungarian composers Balázs Horváth was born in Budapest. He studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Zoltán Jeney, Attila Bozay, and János Vajda. He received his degree with honours in 1999. Since 2005 he has been teaching at the same institute.

In 1994 he attended the Young Artists' Composition Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, lead by Dr. Richard Cornell. In 1997 he was present at the 3rd International Young Composers' Meeting in Apeldoorn, Holland. In 2000 he worked at the Stockhausen Hymnen seminar lead by Péter Eötvös and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 2003 he was an assistant of Micael Jarrell and Jonathan Harvey at the Bartók Seminar Szombathely, where he regularly participates with such internationally renowned composers and conductors as Bryan Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa, Denis Smalley and László Tihanyi.

In 2004 and 2007 he worked as organiser, artistic leader and conductor in joint projects of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest and the New York Juilliard School of Music. In 2009 he founded THReNSeMBle performing contemporary music and focusing on young composers' compositions.