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Marek Balog

violin virtuoso (classical music, gipsy music)

Marek Balog was growing up in Lučenec, Slovakia, placed known as a town of Franz Lehár. After accomplishing his studies at conservatory in Košice and Bánska Bystrica he was enrolled at Academy of Art in Banska Bystrica. He was engaged as primarius in Travnicek's quartet. He passed stag intership in France and gave concerts in many European countries. Nowadays he takes lessons from Arkadi Winokurow, famos violin player and profesor (student of D.Oistrach, the laureate of Prague Spring Festival) who is teaching at Vienna and Linz Conservatory. Apart from playing a violin Marek also devotes his time to compositions and transcriptions of well known pieces. His personality was addressed Czech Television. There were two documentary filmed about Marek in co-produciton with Czech Television. The second full length film was called Violin Knight (Houslový Rytíř).