Pianist Alexandra Balog is celebrated by press as a pianist with “elemental force, virtuosity, and energy” (Radio Bartók’s New Music News), and “a Hungarian pianist who is a real wonder creature” (Forbes) who has played to sold out halls with standing ovations.

Winner of the 2017 Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz, Alexandra Balog has since established herself as one of the most compelling pianists of her generation. She is a Fulbright Scholar, received Hungary’s most prestigious recognition for young artists, the Junior Príma Prize (2023), and was named to Forbes Hungary’s “30 under 30” list (2024). Other important honors include the Frederick Jackson Award (London, 2019) and first prize at
the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition in La Nucia, Spain (2024).

As a soloist, she has performed with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Szent István Philharmonic, the Danube Symphony Orchestra, the Resonate Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra. She has appeared in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), the Centro Nacional de las Artes
(Mexico City), and La Chapelle Musicale (Brussels), with performances across Europe, the United States, Mexico, and Ecuador, as well as major cultural centers in Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. In the 2025/26 season, she will appear at Salle Cortot (Paris), the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), and in Budapest, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Alexandra Balog is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Altalena Artists Collective, an international community of outstanding young musicians dedicated not only to artistic excellence but also to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of performers. The Collective presents a series of festivals, academies, and masterclasses, most prominently the Altalena Music Festival in Hungary and Tuscany, along with the Altalena Summer Academy.

Alexandra graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London under Ian Fountain (2019), was a scholar of the Hungarian Academy of Arts’ three-year program, and earned her Artist Diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Markus Schirmer (2023). Currently, as a Fulbright Scholar, she is pursuing the Advanced Performance Studies program at Bard College Conservatory of Music, studying with Rieko Aizawa.