BELA BALINT

Born: May 1st, 1950, Budapest (Hungary)
Nationality: Hungarian / Swiss

In due course, the short impression below will be replaced with a more extensive career overview

BIOGRAPHY

Pianist, arranger, composer, and producer Bela Balint received a classical conservatory education. As an arranger, he worked with Udo Jürgens and Ute Lemper. He was a member of the Pepe Lienhard Orchestra from 1984 to 1989. He arranged and composed for the Paul Kuhn Big Band and many other ensembles in (West) Germany and Switzerland. Moreover, he composes music to TV and radio commercials and, occasionally, motion pictures. Since 2002, he has taught jazz piano and arranging at his private music school.

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

 
Bela Balint arranged the Swiss entry in 1986, ‘Pas pour moi’, composed and conducted by Atilla Şereftuğ and sung by Daniela Simons; this song came second. Two years later, Balint was again involved in writing the orchestration to a song by Şereftuğ, ‘Ne partez pas sans moi’; this was the Swiss entry in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin and was sung by Céline Dion. With it, Dion won the competition; again, it was AtillaŞereftuğ to conduct the orchestra. Balint himself stood in front of an orchestra in the Eurovision Song Contest on one occasion, in 1990 in Zagreb, with singer / violinist Egon Egemann and his ‘Musik klingt in die Welt hinaus’; this Swiss entry finished 11^th.

EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR

1986 Bergen

Country – Switzerland

Song title – "Pas pour moi"

Rendition – Daniela Simons

Lyrics – Nella Martinetti

Composition – Atilla Şereftuğ

Studio arrangement – Bela Balint

Live orchestration – Bela Balint

Conductor – Atilla Şereftuğ

Score – 2nd place (140 votes)

1988 Dublin

Country – Switzerland

Song title – "Ne partez pas sans moi"

Rendition – Celine Dion

Lyrics – Nella Martinetti

Composition – Atilla Şereftuğ

Studio arrangement – D.W. Richards (Donald Häfliger) / Atilla Şereftuğ

Live orchestration – Bela Balint / Atilla Şereftuğ

Conductor – Atilla Şereftuğ

Score – 1st place (137 votes)

1990 Zagreb

Country – Switzerland

Song title – "Musik klingt in die Welt hinaus"

Rendition – Egon Egemann

Lyrics – Cornelia Lackner

Composition – Cornelia Lackner

Studio arrangement – Bela Balint

Live orchestration – Bela Balint

Conductor – Bela Balint

Score – 11th place (51 votes)