Balter began his music studies at age five at the Conservatório Musical Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was admitted to the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música at age eleven.
His works have been programmed by prominent music organizations including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series,[REF] New World Symphony, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Baryshnikov Arts Center,[REF] and the Fromm Music Series at Harvard University [REF].