Biography   

Máté Pálhegyi, teacher and professor, acquired his degrees at the Franz Liszt Music Academy and the Pécs Academy of Arts. Besides pursuing these degrees, he learned baroque flute, chamber music, and baroque interpretation at the Baroque Academy of Attersee.

  In addition to the above mentioned artists, due to his open-mindedness, he is working (or has worked) together regularly with such personalities as bassoon player József Vajda (whom children can listen to daily on television) Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Köln ensemble, Miklós Spányi harpsichord artists, Bea Palya singer, Dániel Gryllus the composer for and leader of the Kaláka ensemble, Gergely Kuklis, concertmaster of the National Philharmonics, László Fassang, organ artist, the Auer string-quartet,  Péter "Peta" Lukács guitarist, Mihály Borbély saxophone artists, János "Jammal" Fekete beatbox artist, and Béla Szerényi hurdy-gurdy artist.

In terms of artistic associates, he puts on joint productions with onstage and onscreen performers András Bálint, Dorka Gryllus, Géza Balkay, András Bálint, and Lia Pokorny; photographer Ottó Kaiser; painters Tibor Balogh and Donát Márk Csáky; director Katalin Kőváry, as well as sommelier Fábián Wilmann.

Máté Pálhegyi’s artistic goal is to take advantage of the possibilities of improvisation, or interpretation with an improvisational intonation, within each and every style available in the practice of musical performance, in order to form a relationship in the all-time present between the composer, the performer, and the audience.

   

This goal is what he wishes to accomplish in the cultural life of his homeland, Europe, and other parts of the world. At present, he is forming his musical company under the name By-HeArt, of which most all of the above mentioned artists will be members. In addition, however, Balázs Kántor, solo cellist of the Hungarian Opera, Gábor Csonka, concertmaster of Free style Chamber Orchestra, and Szilvia Elek harpsichordist, as well as the Hungarian National Theatre will join the crew. Their shared goal is to renew and refresh Hungarian cultural and musical life. For this purpose, they seek to involve as many different age groups and layers of society as possible, from performers, representatives, and listeners of both the classic and what is called the alternative school of music, in order to bring about a completely new form of social and civil life.

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