Zsuzsa Bálint comes from a Hungarian family of musicians in Transylvania (Romania) and made her debut in her hometown of Targu-Mures at the age of eleven as a soloist with an orchestra. She studied in the master class of Prof. Boris Bloch at Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen and completed her concert exam at Universität der Künste Berlin with Prof. Georg Sava. She has received various international awards as a soloist, chamber musician and best accompanist. During her studies she received a teaching position at the UdK, which she still holds today. Further lectureships followed at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, as well as at Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. She is in demand internationally both as a soloist and as a chamber musician and has made a name for herself as a duo partner for double bass players from all over the world, including Ovidiu Badila, Janne Saksala, Esko Laine, Gunars Upatnieks, Wies de Boevé, Rick Stotijn, Dominik Wagner, Andrés Martín and many others with whom she plays duo recitals, gives master classes and records CD projects. Since 2014 she has been playing regular piano duo concerts as part of Kammermusiktage Ahrenshoop. As an accompanist for vocalists, she has been working with Burkhard von Puttkamer for many years, with whom she gives recitals as part of the festival „Zwischenakt - Konzerte an ungewöhnlichen Orten“. She is the official accompanist and a frequent co-organizer at numerous competitions, master classes and festivals, including Internationale Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen, Deutsche Musikwettbewerb des Deutschen Musikrates and the solo competitions of the BassEurope Academy. Since 2005 she has also been a permanent pianist at Carl-Flesch-Akademie in Baden-Baden and a guest artist at Mattheiser Sommerakademie in Bad Sobernheim. In 2019 she played at the International Society of Bassists at the Indiana Music School Bloomington, for Bass Europe in: Berlin, Prague and Lucca. She started her own series of master classes for strings, Open Master Classes (OMC), in November 2021. Radio and television recordings as well as CD productions document her artistic work: Deutschlandradio, SWR and Radio Romania Bucharest broadcast her concerts live. For the Bavarian Radio she played as a soloist with Bamberger Symphoniker under the direction of Karl-Heinz Steffens. A CD co-production was made with her own arrangements of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Swan Lake suites. With her ensemble of three pianos she recorded a CD with film music arrangements. Her most recent CD with the double bass player Waldemar Schwiertz (Gewandhaus Leipzig/ Prof. Uni Mainz) with sonatas by Adolf Misek is in the works. In addition to her pedagogical interest, experimental projects such as the three-piano ensemble “Xinowa Sej”, which she co-founded, and South American music, above all tango, offer her creative balance. Participation in various tango formations and active cooperation with composers from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Germany, including above all Saúl Cosentino, Andrés Martín, Pablo Ardouin Shand and Judith Brandenburg, inspired her to start her own tango solo project. which, in addition to its own arrangements, also includes some world premieres.