Benedek Csalog & Dóra Pétery
Biographie Benedek Csalog & Dóra Pétery
Benedek Csalog
Born in Budapest, Hungary, BENEDEK CSALOG studied flute at the Franz Liszt Conservatory, Budapest, then baroque flute at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Barthold Kuijken. He performs throughout Europe, in the United States, Brazil, Japan and the Middle East, and he is regularly invited to play as soloist at the important early music festivals, such as Musicora Paris, Holland Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Innsbruck Festival, St. Petersburg Festival and others.
He won first prize at the Baroque Flute Artist Competition in Orlando (USA) as well as first prize at the Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges (Belgium). Benedek Csalog has been teaching baroque flute at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig (Leipzig Music Academy) and at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music (PL), and regularly gives master-classes in Europe, Russia, South-America and Japan. He has been a guest professor at the Franz Doppler Institute in Budapest and regularly invited to teach at the Tschaikowsky Conservatorium, Moscow and he was artistic director of the Summer School for Early Music in Tokaj, Hungary.
He is recently living in his home town Budapest and gives regular master classes there. Mr. Csalog recorded 12 CD recordings for German, Belgian and Hungarian labels.
Dóra Pétery
was born in Budapest. She began her organ studies with Lilla Szathmáry. She studied musicology and organ at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, graduating in organ in 2000 as a student of István Ruppert and János Pálúr. She first studied clavichord as a main subject at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy, and gave her diploma concert in 2003 as a student of Miklós Spányi. She currently studies, teaches and performs in the solo class of Hans-Ola Ericsson in Sweden as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player.
Dóra Pétery was born in Budapest. She began her organ studies under Lilla Szathmáry. At the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music she studied musicology and organ playing and obtained a master degree in organ in 2000. It was the first case in the history of the Helsinki Sibelius Academy that one had the possibility to study clavichord as a main subject. She played her diploma concert there in 2003 as a pupil of Miklós Spányi. At the moment she is a student in Hans-Ola Ericsson's concert organist class in Sweden, she teaches keyboard instruments, and works as soloist chamber musician and continuo player as well.
