Balázs Máté
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Balázs Máté is a Hungarian cellist and educator born in 1965 in Budapest. He began playing the cello at age eight. Máté studied at the Béla Bartók Music Gymnasium under László Szilvásy from 1979 to 1983 and graduated with honors from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1988. He served as a member of the Hungarian National Philharmonic between 1985 and 1992. Máté studied Baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under Jaap ter Linden, receiving his diploma in 1992. He became a founding member of the ensembles Concerto armonico, Trio Cristofori, and Quartetto Luigi Tomasini, and established Aura musicale in 1996. Máté performed as a soloist with orchestras including Le Concert des Nations, Wiener Akademie, and Concentus Musicus Wien. He served as a professor at the Leipzig University of Music and was appointed to the faculty of the Anton Bruckner Private University. Máté received the Liszt Prize in 2010.
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