Bálint was born in Budapest, Hungary surrounded by music in a family of musicians. His Grandfather was the conductor of the Choir of the Hungarian National Radio. Bálint started his piano studies at a very early age.

Bálint was educated in prestigious music schools of Hungary including the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School, Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music, and the Music Studio of Kőbánya. He graduated at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music as a jazz composer and arranger. He studied both classical and jazz composition as well as piano.
In 2007 he moved to Los Angeles where he undertook the Film Scoring Certificate Program of UCLA Extension.

Bálint formed his first band at the age of 16 where he began to write songs and perform. Over the years he was the leader and member of many bands performing in a myriad of musical genres; including playing with most of the top artists Hungary has to offer. He also worked in Scandinavia as a pianist for a period of time. In 2005 he formed his jazz band Soul What. In the same year the band toured Australia, Hong Kong, and China the following year. Bálint performed with the Budapest Jazz Orchestra and toured with the Danubia Symphonic Orchestra in Switzerland. In 2009 he became the member of the Jeanne Mas band. They gave two concerts in the famous Olympia concert hall in Paris. In 2010 they toured one month in France with the popular French singer. Bálint is regularly performing in California and Hungary.

Bálint has always been very interested and highly influenced by film music; most of his early compositions were mainly of this genre.
He began to cultivate his songwriting skills in high school largely influenced by such bands as Tower of Power, Incognito, and Earth Wind & Fire. Soon he became more specifically interested in jazz. Bálint formed Soul What and began to write many jazz compositions and arrangements. Becoming increasingly well-known as a jazz composer Bálint was hired to work for some of the best Hungarian jazz ensembles. His compositions and arrangements at this time began to be performed by the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, George Duke, Kevin Mahogany, the Cotton Club Singers, the Dutch Millennium Jazz Orchestra, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio, the string ensemble of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Accord Quartet, as well as various Hollywood studio orchestras and several other bands and performers. Since 2007 he’s been consistently involved in film scoring and producing for a variety of performers in Los Angeles.

Bálint has received various national and international awards including the Fulbright Scholarship among others. He is the prize-winner of the Hungarian Jazz Composition Contest, International Big Band Composition Contest in the Netherlands, and the Hungarian Contest of Jazz Ensembles.

 

He is also the Cultural Secretary of the United Hungarian House in Los Angeles and the president of the Californian American-Hungarian Art Assosiation.