Petra Kiss visits China
12 September 2013
A second year MA piano student, Petra Kiss, gave three concerts in Beijing in August 2013. Here is her account of on her Far Eastern tour.
The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians.
12 September 2013
A second year MA piano student, Petra Kiss, gave three concerts in Beijing in August 2013. Here is her account of on her Far Eastern tour.
7 September 2013
Liszt Academy’s teacher, Valér Jobbágy has been awarded the prize by the Hungarian Catholic Episcopal Conference in recognition of his twenty-five years of service as the first externally appointed choir conductor of the Pécs Cathedral, for his work leading the Palestrina Chorus and his activities promoting Catholic culture.
3 September 2013
Our university’s piano professor is representing the Liszt Academy of Music at the fifth Liszt Piano Competition organized by the Korean Liszt Society.
2 September 2013
In 2013 two Gramophone Awards, considered the Oscars of classical music, went to Hungarians with ties to the Music Academy.