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UPCOMING EVENTS
Balint Karosi is available for bookings for the 2025-26 concert season and all inquiries are welcomed. Please call 860-560-7800 or email us at email@concertartists.com for additional information! Sunday, April 27, 2025 Friday, May 2, 2025 Saturday, May 3, 2025 Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Saturday, September 27, 2025 Sunday, November 9, 2025 Friday, November 14, 2025 |
Commended as “a most impressive musical interpreter” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Hungary native Bálint Karosi has earned a widely-heralded reputation for his creative programming and expressive command of a wide range of repertoire. His music-making is deftly guided by historical performance practice and a remarkably multi-faceted musicianship at the pipe organ that is enriched by his experiences as a composer, conductor, church musician, and clarinetist. He is the winner of the 2008 International Bach Competition in Leipzig, and has six volumes of organ music published. Dr. Karosi is the newly-appointed Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA.
From the Critics
“… a must-hear recording.”
(Early Music America, 2014)
“…ferociously talented.”
(WGBH Classical New England, 2013)
“Wow! Just WOW!! I never in all my days (and I’m 75) thought I’d ever hear a performance of the hackneyed T&F in d to equal that of Piet Kee at St. Bavo. Well, here it is, and it has taken two generations of organists to do so! Total respect and kudos to Maestro Karosi at the mighty Flentrop.”
(Colin Gantiglew, Durham, North Carolina, January 2023)
“Thank you for a magnificent and inspirational concert at St. Paul’s Church yesterday. You really pushed the Dudley organ to great heights of sound and musicality. It was a sheer joy to listen to you, and we marvel at how much music can come out of one instrument. We are still a weary people from the pandemic, and moments like this breathe new life into us. Thank you for coming to Salem to share your talent and genius with us.”
(Mark and Judith Chien, Salem, Oregon, December 2022)