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.
1 July 2022
Liszt Academy's competition was elected a member and was praised for its high quality by World Federation of International Music Competitions’ General Assembly. Delegates also showed keen interest in the professional issues of the university's Éva Marton International Singing Competition, which had been a member for three years.
27 May 2022
New concert series, a cast of extraordinary performers and programmes await the audience in the next season of the Liszt Academy. The collaboration between the university and the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra will continue in the new season under the Master Play moniker.
28 April 2022
Entries came from 38 countries around the world, from North and South America to the Far East and New Zealand.
8 April 2022
Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music is once again among the world's top 51st-100th institutions in this year's QS rankings by subject, along with the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and King's College London, among others.
4 April 2022
Liszt Museum and Kodály Museum have become part of a 40-member European association of musicians' and composers' memorial museums, with the founding document of the agreement signed in France on Sunday.
1 April 2022
Dr. László Vikárius, professor at the Liszt Academy and the director of the Bartók Archive of the Institute of Musicology, evokes Bartók's collections and concerts in Carpathian Ruthenia and Ukraine on the occasion of the 141st anniversary of the artist’s birth.
29 March 2022
The American violinist has tested positive for covid, so tonight's concert will be performed by his Hungarian colleague as the pianist's partner.
