János Bálint, flute, after graduating from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1984, completed postgraduate studies under Professor András Adorján. He has won numerous awards at international competitions in Ancona, Leipzig, Markneukirchen, and others. He was a solo flute at the Radio Hungary Symphony Orchestra (1981–1991) and the Hungarian National Philharmonic (2000–2006). As a soloist, Bálint has performed in most European countries, as well as in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, Israel and Korea, collaborating, among others, with András Schiff, Martha Argerich, Miklós Perényi and Zoltán Kocsis. He annually performs about a hundred compositions for flute of various genres and is permanently focused on expanding his repertoire by creating transcriptions for flute. Numerous contemporary composers have dedicated their compositions to him. Bálint has released more than thirty CDs for Hungaroton, Capriccio and Naxos. He regularly holds master classes around the world. Bálint is a member of the jury at the most important international competitions in the USA, Japan, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Germany and France, among others. In 2008, he received the highest Hungarian award for musical performance – the Franz Liszt Award of the Ministry of Culture and Education. Bálint is the founder and director of the Doppler Flute Institute in Budapest. He is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold (Germany), supervisor at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac (Serbia) and visiting professor at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland).
