Saturday 5 May 1990

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 11th.

EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR

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)

Country – Switzerland
Song title – "Ne partez pas sans moi"
Rendition – Celine Dion
Lyrics – Nella Martinetti
Composition – Atilla Şereftuğ
Studio arrangement – Donald W. Richards (Donald Häfliger) / Atilla Şereftuğ
Live orchestration – Bela Balint
Conductor – Atilla Şereftuğ
Score – 1st place (137 votes)

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)

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