Leader of "AURA MUSICALE" is cellist Balázs Máté (born 1965 in Budapest).

He studied at the B.Bartók Conservatory and the F.Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. 1986-91 member of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Post-graduate Baroque cello studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL) with Jaap ter Linden, chamber music lessons with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Founding member of "Concerto armonico Budapest", "Trio Cristofori" and "The Rare Fuits Council". Solo cellist in world famous Baroque orchestras: 1991-98 "Le Concert des Nations (J.Savall), 1994- "Wiener Akademie" (M.Haselböck), 1996- "Les Musiciens du Louvre" (M.Minkowski), 2003- "Neue Hofkapelle München" (Chr.Hammer) etc. He founded 1995 his own early music ensemble Aura musicale and 2002 (with László Paulik, Erzsébet Rácz and Éva Posvanecz) the Quartetto Luigi Tomasini. His debut as a soloist at the "Musikverein" in Vienna was in October 2000: he played in the same concert(!) the cello concerto in C-major and the Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major by J.Haydn conducted by Chr.Hogwood. He gave many succesful concerts all over Europe, in Brasil, Argentina, Columbia and Japan. Balázs Máté is a famous artist of the Baroque cello, the violoncello piccolo and the Bass violin. He does important researches on undiservedly forgotten composers and their works.