Balázs Máté

The Hungarian musician Balázs Máté first studied at the Béla Bartók Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, graduating with distinction. From 1990 to 1992 he studied baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Jaap ter Linden. He received his final polish from Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

As principal cellist – he has performed in almost every European country and overseas – he appears with internationally renowned baroque orchestras such as Le Concert des Nations, the Wiener Akademie, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Concentus Musicus Wien and many more. He is a founding member of the baroque orchestra Concerto armonico and the Trio Cristofori. In 1996 he founded the baroque ensemble Aura Musicale, which he directs.

He has made numerous CD recordings – including many world premieres – as solo cellist and as director of Aura Musicale. In addition to a complete recording of the cello concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and of all the suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, he has recorded cello concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Gottlieb Monn.

Balázs Máté plays baroque and modern cello, violoncello piccolo and basse de violon. Since 2004 he has been cello tutor with the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), and since 2024 he has led the baroque cello class at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.

Photo: Kondella Misi