József BALOG has given over 1000 concerts as soloist and chamber musician in more than 25 countries in three continents of the world. In addition to the standard piano repertoire, he enjoys playing lesser-known masterpieces, contemporary music, and jazz-inspired classical music, and has also premiered many works of contemporary music.

He is a regular participant in the Hungarian and international music scene and, in addition to performing, he gives masterclasses at prestigious institutions around the world. During his career he has performed with many great orchestras under the batons of such distinguished conductors as Gilbert Varga, David Nimrod Pfeffer, Zoltán Kocsis, Kristjän Järvi, Jesús Medina, and Vitaly Protasov.

His first solo disc ‘Hungaricum’ was the only CD to win the Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prize for Recordings in 2005, and his ‘Transcendental Etudes’ was named Record of the Month in June 2015 on allmusic.com, one of the most prestigious classical music websites. He was awarded the Liszt Prize in 2018 and the Lajtha Prize in 2019.