How is it possible for a French pianist to feel closer to Bartók than to Debussy? Let's meet a musician who was Sir Georg Solti's last discovery, was supported by Georges Cziffra, and today plays chamber music with some of Hungary's greatest musicians. An interview with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who in November will be giving a two-piano concert with Balázs Szokolay at the Liszt Academy.

The Liszt Academy has entered into a strategic alliance with three Budapest educational establishments to bring new life to the world famous Kodály Method of teaching, as well as creating an exemplary model representing the full scale of Hungarian vocal and music public education. The schools are the Városmajor Secondary School, the Károly Kós Specialist Music and Singing Primary School and the Városmajor Street Kindergarten.

Isabelle Faust is regular guest in Budapest, on 27 November her partner will be the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Heinz Holliger. Portrait of the violin virtuoso by József Kling.

“The essence of composition is impact” - says David Lang. The article of Szabolcs Molnár helps to understand the know-how of the Californian composer, whose two pieces will be performed on 26 October 2014 at Liszt Academy.

The second weekend of October at the Liszt Academy is devoted to the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who was born three hundred years ago. Miklós Spányi and the artists of Concerto Armonico Budapest will be dedicating three concerts to the son of Johann Sebastian, who enjoyed the greatest career among the Bach-sons. C. P. E. Bach kindly agreed to give an exclusive interview to the Liszt Academy Concert Magazine.