Vera Balogh

Vera Balogh

Strings Department

Baroque Flute as Secondary Instrument

Born: 8 November 1972, Budapest

Academic degree: DLA; title of doctoral dissertation: “A 18. századi francia fuvolaiskolák(French Flute Schools in the 18th Century)

Studies:
2013–2015: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Doctoral School
1996–1999: Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel – traverso (historical flute) major (under Prof. Barthold Kuijken)
1992–1996: Teachers' Training Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest – musicology-solfege-choir conducting studies

Recordings:
J. Ph. Rameau: Les Fêtes de Polymnie; Veronique Gens, Emőke Baráth, Aurélia Legay, Mathias Vidal, Thomas Dolié, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, György Vashegyi (GCD 923502, 2015)
C. Ph. E. Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 19.; M. Spányi, Concerto Armonico, Budapest (BIS-1957, 2012)
C. Ph. E. Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 18.; M. Spányi, Concerto Armonico, Budapest (BIS-CD-1787, 2012)
J. Haydn: Die Schöpfung; Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir – György Vashegyi (OMF CD-004-5, 2006)
J. S. Kusser: Festin des Muses; Aura Musicale – Balázs Máté (Hungaroton HCD 32337, 2005)
C. Ph. E. Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 12.; Concerto Armonico – M. Spányi, P. Szűts (BIS CD-1127, 2003)
C. Ph. E. Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 11.; Concerto Armonico – M. Spányi, P. Szűts (BIS CD-1097, 2002)

Orchestral membership:
Orfeo Orchestra (artistic director: György Vashegyi, website)
Hortus Musicus 99 Early Music Ensemble (facebook page)
Savaria Baroque Orchestra (artistic director: Pál Németh)
Esterházy Hofkapelle (artistic director: Márton Rácz)
Concerto Armonico (artistic director: Miklós Spányi and Péter Szűts)
Capella Savaria (artistic director: Zsolt Kalló)
Aura Musicale (artistic director: Balázs Máté)
Ars Longa Chamber Ensemble (artistic director: Soma Dinyés)
Corvinus Consort (artistic director: Géza Klembala)
   She has played with many world-renowned conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Enrico Onofri, Christoph Prégardien and Paul McCreesh

Teaching activities:
Since 2012: teacher of Baroque flute at the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music
Since 2011: teacher of Baroque flute at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
Since 2007: teacher of recorder, flute and solfege at the Péter Veres Secondary School
2002–2007: teacher of flute and recorder at PRÍM Primary Level Art Education Institution
2002–2003: teacher of flute and recorder at the Kiss Zenede Primary School of Art
   Furthermore, she regularly gives lectures on early music and the history of the flute.

Other activities:
She has researched and prepared for Hungarian and/or modern-day premieres several unknown or lesser-known Baroque and classical composers and their compositions (including the works of Quentin, Schultze, Abel, Guillemain, Roman, Huber, Neymann, Anfossi, Salieri, Cimarosa, Paisiello, Cambini, Schobert, Delusse, Philidor, Devienne and others).
   She translated into Hungarian most of the 17th-18th-century writings on the flute published in French, as well as the publications on the characters of musical keys by various authors from the period 1600-1860.
   She has compiled a theoretical solfege textbook and a supplementary exercise book for the students of the Péter Veres Secondary School.

Earlier projects:
2014: Premiere of Xénia Stollár’s Avagy a tavasz with the flute ensemble of the Péter Veres Secondary School
2012: Premiere of Xénia Stollár’s Körjáték – avagy hangulatom darabjai with the flute ensemble of the Péter Veres Secondary School
2010: Premiere of Xénia Stollár’s Napvilág, holdsugár with the flute ensemble of the Péter Veres Secondary School
2008: “The Father of Swedish Music Died 250 Years Ago” – 3-part concert series with the Hortus Musicus 99 ensemble in honor of Swedish composer J. H. Roman, supported by the Embassy of Sweden
2003-2004: “Telemann’s Europe” – 3-part concert series with the Hortus Musicus 99 ensemble
2003: performing musician in French-Hungarian-Rumanian theatrical co-production Pantagruel (directed by Silviu Purcarete)
2002: “Blue Moon – Gold Hill” Crossover Music, from works by J. S. Bach and standard jazz pieces played on period and jazz instruments – transcriptions by Xénia Stollár
2001: “Musical Instruments in Mozart’s Time” – with the coproduction of the Musical Instrument Museum of Brussels
2001: “18th-Century Manuscript Chamber Music with Flute from the Library of the Festetics Palace in Keszthely” – research project and concerts
1999–2000: Performing musician in theatre play De Sade (directed by Silviu Purcarete) – co-production of Theatre de l'Union (Limoges) and Arena del Sole (Bologne)
1999: “Hasse’s Works for Flute from the Library of the Brussels Academy of Music” – research project and concerts on the 300th anniversary of the birth of J. A. Hasse with the cooperation of Peter van Heyghen

Contact:
baloghvera[at]t-online.hu