"A most impressive musical interpreter."
(Dr. Christopher Wolff, Harvard University, noted musicologist)
"Always displaying the unwavering concentration which he awarded to the music...everyone in the audience also paid rapt attention and was rewarded for doing so." (Dorry Schaddock, Houston Bach Society, presenter)
"His performance not only demonstrated superb technique, but it was also emotionally and spiritually totally satisfying." (Mary Whelan, audience member at Methuen Music Hall MA)
“Brilliant young Hungarian organist…exceptional.”
(The Diapason, 2011)
Bálint Karosi
concert organist
XVI International
Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, Leipzig
First Prize
Dublin International Organ Competition
First Prize & Prize of the Audience
Arthur Poister Organ Competition
First Prize
Miami International Organ Competition
First Prize & Prize of the Audience
The Hungarian organist Bálint Karosi is an extremely versatile musician as a composer, harpsichordist, clarinetist, improvisateur and an organist who has made a specialty of historic performance practice.
He has to his credit an impressive resume of triumphs at prestigious international performance competitions including First Prize at the Sixteenth International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, First Prize and Prize of the Audience at the Dublin International Organ Competition, First Prize at the Arthur Poister Organ Competition, and First Prize and Prize of the Audience at the Miami International Organ Competition. He was also a winner of the Prague Spring International Clarinet Competition in 2002.
As a composer he was commissioned to write a work for the new organ at the National Concert Hall in Budapest, and gave the premiere performance of the work, "Consonances" a concerto for organ and symphony orchestra, as soloist there in 2007. This performance was broadcast on American Public Media's "Pipedreams" program, and his compositions are published by Wayne Leupold Editions Ltd.
He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, at the Conservatoire Superior de Genéve and at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, earning two master's degrees, two "Prix de Virtuosité" as well as both an Artist Diploma and a Master of Music degree in historical keyboard performance. He was awarded the "Prima Primissima Juior Prize" for music in 2009, which honors the most distinguished performers of his native Hungary.
Bálint Karosi is a resident of Boston where he is active as a performer in chamber music circles and plays historical clarinet for Boston Baroque. He is Organist and Director of Music at First Lutheran Church in Boston. His debut solo CD was released in 2009.