Balázs Kecskés D. is a Budapest-based composer, who writes music that calls to listeners’ imaginations offering them the sound space to experience the collision of multiple worlds. His influences range from St Augustine to Friedrich Nietzsche, from Franz Schubert to Katy Perry, and from J. S. Bach to Meredith Monk. His oratorio, Komm has been described as having a “unique profane spirituality, through which the audience can … be part of a truly sacred experience” (Bartók Radio, New Music Journal). Komm was presented at the 67th International Rostrum of Composers in October 2021, and in 2022 it was performed by Nils Scweckendiek in Gdansk and Helsinki. His orchestra piece, Blue, commissioned by the Netherlands Philharmonic was recently premiered at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Upcoming projects will include new choir pieces for the San Francisco Choral Artists.

His works have been premiered by ensembles such as the Helsinki Chamber Choir, the NeoQuartet, the Estonian Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir, the U.S.-based Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Hungarian Radio Orchestra and Choir and the Budapest String Orchestra. Balázs’s compositions have been performed in Düsseldorf, Riga, London, Tbilisi, and Hot Springs, Virginia. 

One of only two composers selected to be mentored in the Peter Eötvös Foundation in 2021, Balázs has written music for groups such as Ars Nova Ensemble, France, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, Hungary and the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra. Balázs won the Istvánffy Benedek Award of the Hungarian Composers’ Union in 2020 and 2019. This award is given annually to an outstanding composer under 40.



As a lecturer at the Composition Department of the Liszt Academy of Music, Balázs teaches baroque and Viennese classical techniques and contemporary music analysis. Through his teaching activity he maintains a living connection with the classical repertoire, while exploring the latest in contemporary techniques together with his students. Understanding music in its broader cultural contexts, Balázs writes essays on everything from electronics and AI in classical music to comparing pop songs to Schubert Lieder.

He holds degrees from the Liszt Academy of Music where he studied with János Vajda, and spent a semester at the Luigi Cherubini Music as a student of Paolo Furlani.

Peter Zombola was born on the 2nd of March 1983 in Budapest. At the age of 6 he began playing the clarinet and at the age of 8 also the piano. From 1997 to 2001 he attended the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music as a pupil of Miklós Kocsár and Miklós Csemiczky, then he studied composition at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Budapest with Zoltán Jeney and György Orbán. In 2003 he won the 2nd Prize of the Semmering International Summer Academy and in 2004 the 2nd Prize of the composition competition of the Liszt Academy. An ex aequo 2nd Prize was given to his piece at the István Vántus Composers’ Competition in Szeged 2004. He received the Zoltán Kodály Scholarship of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 he took his degree of composition and teaching with distinction and a year  later his diploma as a teacher of analysis, also with honours.
Several works by Zombola have been premiered at foreign and Hungarian music festivals alike. He composes film and incidental music as well. He has been a composer student of the Doctor of Liberal Arts faculty of the Liszt Academy of Music between 2006 and 2009, he got his PhD degree in 2010. He teaches at the Faculty of Singing and Music of the University of Dramatic and Film Arts since September 2004 and at the Eszterházy Károly College since 2009 and he works at the Hungarian Radio Music Groups as artistic leader.

Davide Spina nasce a Palermo nel 1997. Si diploma in pianoforte e Composizione con il massimo dei voti, si specializza poi sotto la guida dei compositori, Salvatore Sciarrino, Francesco Filidei, Oscar Strasnoy e Andrea Portera.
La sua musica è stata eseguita in vari istituzioni ed enti, tra cui il Teatro Massimo di Palermo, il teatro Bozar di Bruxelles, il FontanaMix ensemble, il Festival Gamo e altri.
Nel 2021 riceve il suo brano Chiaroscuro riceve la menzione speciale al prestigioso concorso di Composizione “2 agosto” (BO). Nel 2023 viene selezionato al Concorso di Composizione e residenza artistica “ragazzi e ragazze Salvemini” dove ha la possibilità di collaborare con il flautista Manuel Zurria.
La sua opera compositiva include lavori per orchestra, ensemble, solista e genere vocale. Nella sua musica vengono indagati i problemi sociali della società contemporanea. Tematiche come il Phubbing, il Ghosting o la più diffusa FOMO diventano centro di ricerca per una musica attuale e densa di significato. Nella sua musica si può scorgere una ricerca che mette in relazione tradizione e innovazione, dove ogni mezzo musicale viene utilizzato per scopi espressivi.
Attualmente si dedica alla ricerca e alla scrittura di lavori per ensemble.

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