Liszt Academy season tickets - Fall 2014

A plethora of world stars and the finest from Hungary with links to the Liszt Academy all so close: music aficionados can now purchase season tickets for the magnificently renovated (both inside and out) palace of music on Liszt Ferenc Square. The Liszt Academy Concert Centre has refined the popular series from the reopening season and organized a themed collection of concerts for autumn 2014; passes are now available at a significant discount. The primarily classical music genres included in the season tickets have a focus on programmes particularly suited to the remarkable acoustics and intimate atmosphere of the concert halls of the Liszt Academy. In addition to chamber and symphony orchestra, chamber music and vocal concerts, plus performances by the finest from the departments of the university, there are season tickets specialized on early music and folk music concerts, and even youth matinees.

Two season tickets titled Chamber Music, So Close further the globally acknowledged chamber music traditions of the Liszt Academy with performers such as Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Wenzel Fuchs, Miklós Perényi, Vilmos Szabadi, Zoltán Rácz, and the Kodály Quartet. Every concert in the Orchestra in the Centre season ticket series showcases star soloists – Isabelle Faust, Péter Frankl, Tamás Vásáry, László Fenyő – and conductor Heinz Holliger. The cream of the vocal genre are pulled together in the Voice, so close season ticket, presenting the National Choir, New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir and Angelica Girls' Choir, as well as Ian Bostridge, one of the finest lyrical tenors in the world. The On the Spot season ticket offers two remarkable gala recitals featuring departments of the Liszt Academy and a traditional festive concert on the birthday of Kodály. Pure Baroque brings two international star ensembles of the historical performance mode to Budapest (The King's Consort, Holland Baroque Society), as well as Concerto Armonico Budapest, considered one of the foremost exponents of early music performance in Hungary. The most authentic repositories of the folk music tradition (Vujicsics Ensemble, Márta Sebestyén and Ági Szalóki) take to the stage in concerts organized for Acoustic, Authentic season ticket holders; the Liszt Kidz Academy season ticket bunches together three concerts presenting instruments for 11-14-year-olds (and their families).

Every season ticket comprises three concerts, and in a change from established practice they encompass not the entire season but – bearing in the mind the need for greater planability – a quarter of a year from the start of the autumn season to the end of the calendar year. Concerts for the autumn 2014 series of the Liszt Academy Concert Centre are exclusively available in season ticket form until 15 June, representing a significant, 20% discount on the ticket prices for individual concerts. Tickets for individual performances in the season ticket series can be purchased from the middle of June (naturally tickets for non-season ticket concerts are available as usual); after this date there will be a limited number of season tickets on sale via the Liszt Academy website (see links below) and at the ticket office in Liszt Ferenc Square.

The organizer retains the right to modify programmes.