Pianist Alexandra Balog is celebrated by press as a pianist with “elemental force, virtuosity, and energy” (Radio Bartók’s New Music News), and “a Hungarian pianist who is a real wonder creature” (Forbes) who has played to sold out halls with standing ovations.
Winner of the 2017 Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz Austria, in 2020 she received the Talentum Hungaricum award and in 2023 the Junior Príma prize, the most prestigious award in Hungary for young musicians. The following year, she was awarded first prize at the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition La Nucia, Spain.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Szent István Philharmonic, The Danube Symphony Orchestra, the Resonate Chamber Orchestra, and the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music. She has also performed in major venues in Hungary, as well the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, La Chapelle Musicale in Brussels, and has given recitals across Europe as well as in the US, Mexico, Russia, China and the Philippines. In the coming season, she will be giving recitals at the Carnegie Hall, Bellas Artes, and in Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai and London.
As a pianist whose entrepreneurial skills emerged in her late teens, helping advance the careers of other young musicians is another of Alexandra’s interests. She was featured in Forbes’ ’30 successful Hungarians under 30’ in 2024, and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Altalena Music Festival and Summer Academy since 2014, and is one of the leading members of Altalena Young Artists, a musical community of outstanding young musicians.
Alexandra graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2019 under the tutelage of Ian Fountain and was a scholar in the three-year scholarship program organized by the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In 2023, she graduated from the University of Music in Graz where she obtained an Artist Diploma degree studying with Professor Markus
Schirmer. A recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, she is currently studying at the Bard College Conservatory of Music where she is enrolled in the Advance Performance Studies course studying with Rieko Aizawa.