Bálint Karosi is appointed lecturer in sacred music for the 2024–2025 academic year at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, where he will teach keyboard harmony.
Karosi has been cantor and director of music, classical, at St. Peter’s Church in Midtown Manhattan since 2015. He is known for his interpretation of Bach’s organ music, his Baroque-style improvisations, and his compositions, which include an eclectic reconstruction of Bach’s St. Mark Passion, BWV 247, five organ concerti, cantatas, choral, orchestral, and various instrumental works. His Toccata in Memory of Bartók was the compulsory work for the 2022 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP) competition; his Kodály Triptych won first prize of the Hungarian Philharmonia’s 2022 composition competition; and his organ concerto Syöjätär was awarded the Kaija Saarijaho prize in Helsinki, Finland, in 2023.
Karosi earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition at the Yale School of Music in 2017. He is represented in the United States by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
For information: karosi.org and concertartists.com.
Other recent appointments:
Erica Johnson to Boston University School of Theology
