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- Balázs Alpár (aka Baleemus) is a musically multilingual, Hungarian born composer specialized in genre-blending, hybrid styles. He is a member of the European Film Academy, furthermore he is the in-house composer and sound designer of Kedd Animation Studio lead by Oscar-nominated Géza M. Tóth. He has recently created music for the HBO docu-drama "Ultra", for AMC Networks' channel "JimJam", for the TV series "Virtuosos", and for the animated movies "The Grickles" (Kuflik) I & II. The film Matches, featuring Balázs' music and sound design was on the 2021 Oscar long list: Best Animated Short.
The unique voice of his film scores is characterized by a blend of classical, baroque styles and modern electronic elements, and also by an emotive melodic/thematic writing. He often uses expressive sounds of ethnic instruments such as the Hungarian-Romanian "Tilinka" in a symphonic context.
With an academic background from Budapest & Vienna he has been working, for 15+ years, full time as a composer. His music production company is operating inside the renowned building of Pannonia Studios, Budapest. Besides creating soundtracks to movies, commercials and theatre shows he composes concert pieces for symphonic orchestras, jazz/pop and electronic bands.
- IMDb mini biography by: Balázs Alpár
- He studied media composition, jazz arrangement and studio technology at the University of Music and performing arts Vienna, where he also completed his doctoral studies.
- He studied media composition in the class of Oscar-nominated Klaus-Peter Sattler.
- In his PhD dissertation written at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna he studies correspondences between composers' communication strategies and composition methods in pop/classical genre-crossing works.
- He gained his sound engineer certificate at the Hungarian State Radio.
- He has created the sound logos and commercials of the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall (Palace of Arts) in Budapest, as well as the sound logos of the Hungarian Klasszik Rádio.
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