'With problem-fee virtuosic technique, an imaginative sense of expression, a great many nuances, a sound that is sometimes powerful and other times intimate, she plays the music in a transcendental fashion, always following its natural progression.' These are the words conductor János Kovács used to characterise Krisztina Fejes. Hungarian Radio's New Music Journal had similar praise for István Lajkó at the start of his career, pronouncing his 'a name to remember.' Since then, he has made sure this would indeed be the case at countless memorable concerts both in Hungary and abroad. Today, as a professor at both Budapest's Liszt Academy and the Cologne University of Music, he himself is helping young pianists launch their careers. With his sensitive musicality, József Balog has won recognition from critics and affection from audiences all over the globe, from Amsterdam and London to New York and Shanghai. He is always glad to play less-well-known masterpieces, as well as classical music inspired by jazz, with more than a thousand concerts to his name as both a soloist and a chamber musician, along with nine CDs.

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