Artists

Dr. Bálint Karosi has been recently appointed as Director of Music at First Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia. Previously he served as Director of Music at Saint Peter’s Church
in Midtown Manhattan. Dr Karosi is in demand as a recitalist and composer, known for
the interpretation of Bach’s music, his compositions, and improvisations. His recording
portfolio includes three albums by Hungaroton, including his original orchestral works,
and thirteen albums of the complete works for organ by J. S. Bach. Dr. Karosi has served
on the faculty of the Organ Department at the University of Michigan for the academic
year 2023-2024 where he is taught organ literature, church music, and improvisation. He
is expected to join the organ faculty at Yale teaching keyboard harmony for the Fall
semester of 2024.
Dr. Karosi’s compositions include the reconstruction of Bach’s lost St Mark’s Passion BWV
247 (2023), five organ concerti, two one-act operas, cantatas, choral, orchestral, and
instrumental works. His eight volumes of organ works are published by the Leupold
Foundation. His Toccata in Memory of Bartók was the compulsory work for the 2022
NYACOP competition, his Kodály Triptych won the first prize of the Hungarian
Philharmonia’s 2022 composition competition, and, in 2023, his organ concerto Syöjätär
was awarded the Kaija Saarijaho prize and the prize of the Finnish National Composer
Award in Helsinki, Finland. His works have been performed by the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Spectrum Symphony, Musicians Libres, Anima Musica and the St Thomas
Choir in NYC.
Dr Karosi has studied at the Liszt Academy in his native Budapest, Hungary, the
Conservatoire Superieure in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Oberlin Conservatory in
Ohio. He earned his DMA in composition at the Yale School of Music in 2017.