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Violinist Volodja Balzalorsky has been Awarded Five Prestigious Music Prizes in US, Canada, Spain and in Slovenia
Recently Volodja Balzalorsky received his 5th music award in the past three years, in the category "Classical Music" at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in front of some of Hollywood's most famous Music Industry professionals.

Cantabel Productions is delighted to announce that Volodja Balzalorsky received the "Hollywood Music In Media Award - Best Classical" in the category classical music for his Live Collection (four albums), released by Eroica Classical Recordings and Cantabel Productions, now available on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic and all major digital outlets.
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Violinist Volodja Balzalorsky wins Hollywood Music in Media Award (November 19 2009) (NOV 20, 2009
"Volodja Balzalorsky received Hollywood Music in Media Award for his selected recordings from his Live Collection (4 albums), available on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic and all major digital outlets."
www.hmmawards.mi2n.com/pr.php3?id=125057

Volodja Balzalorsky - Soloist with Brahms Concerto with Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
"Volodja Balzalorsky, who flew in from Slovenia to perform Brahms Concerto with the CSO, played with verve and feeling; the gypsy-Hungarian roots of the music were most apparen. Both soloist and orchestra deserved the standing ovation that the normally restrained audience awarded them at the end." Extract
-Roger Jones (Gloucestershire Echo),
www.cheltenhamsymphonyorchestra.info/reviews.htm

"AMG - All Music Guide": CD Review "Live in Maribor - Volodja Balzalorsky Live in Concert Vol. 3"
by James Leonard
...Balzalorsky is an intelligent artist with sweet tone and a smooth technique. In this 1989 issue from the International Chamber Music Series of Maribor, Balzalorsky's Dvorák Sonatina is delightful and soulful, his Debussy Sonata is light and ethereal, his Paganini Cantabile is ripe and tender, and his Srebotnjak Sonata No. 1 is powerful and persuasive.
With the sympathetic accompaniment of German pianist Christoph Theiler, Balzalorsky's performances are easily in the same league as many of the better international performances of the past 20 years and well worth hearing...


Older Reviews
The Austin Chronicle: Volodja Balzalorsky at SXSW Festival
by Doug Freeman
Balzalorsky's strings haunt with an evocatively rich Old World elegance.

"New York Concert Review": Volodja's performances at Carnegie Hall
by Edith Eisler and Harry Saltzman
"New York Concert Review - January 2007": Amael Piano Trio at Carnegie Hall, June 2 2006
Amael Piano Trio is a very fine group. The stringplayer's intonation is impeccable, their tone is rich, beautiful and homogeneous and can vary from floating delicacy to vibrant full bodied sonorousness...
A large multi-national audience rewarded the performers with warm approval and prolonged ovations.
by Edith Eisler

"New York Concert Review - January 2006": Volodja's performance at Carnegie Hall in September 2005

Volodja Balzalorsky in a performance of Janacek, Skerjanc and Brahms:
Finally we heard the soloist whose musical lines seemed to go somewhere, finally some exciting music making.
by Harry Saltzman

Volodja Balzalorsky et Christoph Theiler, un duo aux qualites complementaires
by Jacques Lonchampt
Volodja Balzalorsky et Christoph Theiler, un duo aux qualites complementaires, au jeu tes fin, aux interpretations intelligentes et sensibles...

Volodja Bazalorsky and Christoph Theiler complement one another well, with very subtle playing, intelligent and sensitive interpretations...
Jacques Lonchampt - Le Monde

"Outstanding violinist Volodja Balzalorsky scores a splendid success"... a brilliant, powerful and inspired interpreter...
"Vecerne Novosti" - Slobodan Turlakov
"Outstanding violinist Volodja Balzalorsky scores a splendid success"... a brilliant, powerful and inspired interpreter...
Volodja Balzalorsky is passionately devoted to violin, inspired by the flame which distinguishes the most refined and authentic violinists capable of building the dramaturgy of musical works in the most natural and persuasive manner. His interpretation calls for an exalted and compassionate listener, which is the distinction of rare and predestined musicians.

An extremely fine artist...a gifted musician... [- Hide]
"Bassa Romagna" - Salvatore Grillo
An extremely fine artist...remarkable technique and strength of sound...an eloquent sensitivity and an interpretative character of great force, makes him one of his country?s best - known violinist. A gifted musician, but blind to the temptations of star - like behaviour.

"Music.download.com": It's a brilliant bit of retroaction that gives the works a new vitality and presence [- Hide]
Editor's Reviews: about recordings of Volodja and Amael Piano Trio at download.com
"Music.download.com 2006"
Forgoing the silken tone oft used for Debussy or Brahms in favor of a fuller, rangier fiddle sound, Balzalorsky brings the rambling violin of the fin-de-siecle Eastern European composers back to the 19th-century Westerners. It's a brilliant bit of retroaction that gives the works a new vitality and presence

"Music.download.com 2006": about Amael Piano Trio
This award-winning Slovenian group plays its renditions of 19th-century German and Russian luminaries with a masterful cross of red-blooded force and delicate restraint. It's that balance of vigor and vulnerability that distinguishes these works, this trio hits all the right notes.

"Music.download.com 2005"
Slovenian concert violinist Volodja Balzalorsky puts his instrument front and center to beautifully interpret classical works from the Romanticism and Impressionism eras. With only piano as accompaniment, he elevates the material with his intuitive and refined technique.


Volodja at 12th Kromeriz Fest presenting Slovenian music and in Prague with Percussion Plus Ensemble
"Composer USA" and "Opus Musicum" by Jan Grossman / "DNES-Mlada fronta", Prague: by Wanda Dobrovska
"Composer USA" and "Opus Musicum" by Jan Grossman
"12th Forfest Kromeriz first time in the 21st century"
Two lively and outstanding Slovenian artists, violinist Volodja Balzalorsky and pinist Marina Horak.
Very interesting also was the probe into Slovenian composer's work performed by two lively and outstanding Slovenian artists, violinist Volodja Balzalorsky and pianist Marina Horak. All compositions were composed with invention and skill, and of course rendered excellently.

"DNES-Mlada fronta", Prague: by Wanda Dobrovska

Volodja with Percussion Plus Project in Prague:
Volodja Balzalorsky performed Fiser's "Crux" from memory, thus bringing to the performance an impulse of experienced, virtuoso immediacy...every thing that he attempts is entirely concentrated in the moment...