Lajos Balogh
Beled, Hungary
Lajos Balogh studied with Zoltán Kodály at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, joined the 1956 uprising and crossed the border to Munich.
- A pupil of Zoltán Kodály
- Budapest 1956, then Munich
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony, 1974–2012
- Park concerts since 1981
- Bach every day
“I believe in the power of music.”
He led a string quartet there for almost a decade, recorded Haydn in the Netherlands, and in 1967 finished a master's at the University of Oregon and stayed. For many years he was principal second violin of the Oregon Symphony under Jacques Singer and James DePreist. In 1974 he founded the Metropolitan Youth Symphony and conducted it for thirty-eight years; in 1981, the Portland Festival Symphony, the free summer concerts in the city's parks that he led until 2016.
He taught at Marylhurst, Portland State and Lewis & Clark. He lives in Lake Oswego, and plays Bach every day.
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