The Art of Embellishing: Exploring Slow Movements in Baroque Flute Repertoire
Masterclass & Recital with Benedek Csalog
featuring Gwendolyn Toth – Harpsichord
Live at FC New York | April 3, 2025 | 6PM
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The Hungarian baroque flute player Benedek Csalog was winner of most prestigious early music competitions as the first NFA Baroque Flute Artist Competition and the Musica Antiqua Competition in Brugge, Belgium.
Graduated at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague with Bart Kuijken.
As a soloist he performs throughout Europe, in the USA, Brazil, Japan and the Middle East, and he has been invited to play as a soloist at important early music festivals, such as Musicora Paris, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Holland Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Innsbruck Festival, St. Petersburg Festival.
He most often performs in the company of a single keyboard player, among others with harpsichordists Léon Berben, Christine Shornsheim, Miklós Spányi and Nicholas Parle, and had iconic artists such as William Christie, Sigiswald Kuijken, Barthold Kuijken or Emma Kirkby as his partners.
Benedek produced 12 CD recordings as soloist including the Complete Flute Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (label Ramée).
He used to teach baroque flute at the Leipzig Music Academy, Germany and at the Bydgoszcz Academy of Music, Poland, and gives master-classes in Europe, Russia, Brazil, Armenia and Japan. Before the war he accepted invitations to teach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatorium and the Gnessin School, Moscow.
In addition to his concert activity in 2019 he started to record the complete flute work of J.J. Quantz (ca. 600 works), and published already several sonatas on the project’ homepage The-Quantz-Project.com. In 2023, the label Brilliant Classics decided to take over the project and publish all the sonatas performed by Benedek. The first CD in the series was released last year and contains 7 sonatas.
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