The Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy will host a very special event on 3 March: an orchestra of young musicians will perform an extraordinary programme that the Hungarian audience may rarely hear.

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music will be recognised as one of the European Heritage Label sites in 2016 – was announced by Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport at the press conference of the Network of European Heritage Label Sites.

Uri Caine is unsettlingly hard to classify as a composer: his works demonstrate that post-modernist aesthetics and certain modern trends in jazz share many common points. They renounce a linear depiction of history; they are fixated with allusions and eclecticism and to questioning the traditional terms of originality and authorship.

The highpoint of the Kurtág 90 festival (14-21 February) organized by BMC was the birthday concert in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, following which the 90-year-old composer was awarded an honorary professorial degree by President of the Academy Dr. Andrea Vigh.

We are pleased to announce the joint symposium of the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy and ESCOM (European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music), an interdisciplinary event to be held in Budapest, in the Art Nouveau palace of the Liszt Academy between 3 and 6 March 2016.

The world-famous tenor, who was in Budapest as a guest for a programme at the Opera House, listened to a recital by pianist Ivett Gyöngyösi before meeting young artists from the TV talent contest Virtuózok in the Liszt Academy’s Grand Hall.

One of the most celebrated sopranos of our era, Anne Sofie von Otter, has a repertoire extending from early Baroque through classical and romantic works to jazz and pop music: it is fair to say she an authentic musical omnivore! She now comes to the Liszt Academy with her beloved Baroque music. For this occasion, she gave an interview to Concert Magazine.

Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Mariann Marczi (piano), Eszter Karasszon (cello) and Dr. Csaba Kutnyánszky vice rector represented Liszt Academy at the New York event.

Applications for the contest – being staged between 19-25 September 2016, with total prize money amounting to €42,000 – can be submitted by sending in video recordings until 27 April.

Liszt Academy bids farewell to the violinist and professor emeritus of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, who passed away at the age of 81, in the words of academy president Dr. Andrea Vigh.