Conductor Péter Halász, first conductor (Kapellmeister) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and principal guest conductor at the Hungarian State Opera, is a regular guest at many domestic and foreign institutions. The artist was a member of the jury at the Bartók World Competition for the first time this year, which helped him gain extremely important impressions in several ways.

At the Bartók World Competition, the jury was looking for what a young artist could do to capture our hearts, says world-renowned violinist-conductor András Keller, with whom we talked about this year's event, the problems and challenges of a competition, and more.

Daniel Phillips, Jury President of the 2023 Bartók World Competition, on the role of the competitions, the quality of this year's semi-finalists and the event, and the difficulties of the panel's work. 

Lilia Pocitari was awarded the first prize of 22,000 euros at the gala event of the Liszt Academy’s 2023 World Bartók Competition on Sunday.

The delegation – led by Hajime Furuta, the governor of Gifu Prefecture – held discussions with Dr. Andrea Vigh, rector at the Liszt Academy, about continuing the nearly 30-year-old cooperation as well as the participation of the institution at a festival in Japan next year.

After the order of appearance for the entrants was determined, the 2023 Bartók World Competition for Violinists at the Liszt Academy of Music, with a total prize fund of 46,000 euros, began on 3 September with the preliminaries and will end on 10 September with the award ceremony and gala, bringing together 32 young talents from 16 countries.

The Evaluation Report of the ‘’PRESTO’’ online tool that equips teachers for remote music education was awarded an outstanding 96/100 score and officially labelled “Good Practice” by the competent EU Agency.

The pre-selection jury of this year's competition for violinists–Kristóf Baráti, Géza Kapás and Péter Kováts–decided to let 41 competitors take part in the live rounds.

Ninety-seven applications from twenty-six countries have been received for Liszt Academy’s violin edition of the Bartók World Competition, the pre-selection jury will decide by 22 June who will be invited to the live rounds in September.

Liszt Academy and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gábor Káli will pay tribute to the memory of Zoltán Kocsis and to Hungarian classical music and its composers at their traditional gala evening on 30 May in the Grand Hall.