The Franz Liszt Academy of Music Senate decided to hire several new outstanding artists to teach in the 2019-2020 academic year, who have not taught at the institution before.

The fantasia can hardly be called a genre, as it is a rendition of an invention created on the spur of the moment. Thus it is closest to improvisation, which is never put down in writing.

The Erkel Ferenc Prize winner and Bartók–Pásztory Prize winner is going to continue her teaching activities at the Vienna Academy of Music from the next academic year. Judit Varga, professor at the Liszt Academy of Music, shared her impressions of her prestigious appointment and her way there.

Young pianists from all over the world, even from Iceland, have sent their applications to participate in this year’s piano contest of the Bartók World Competition & Festival. Even though the compulsory repertoire was truly demanding that didn’t prevent the young artists from qualifying: applications have been received not only from Taiwan, Russia and Switzerland, but from the United States and from Japan as well.

The new international exhibition presents Liszt’s many connections with Austria, exploring the impact of the tradition of the Viennese virtuoso school on his early career, from his childhood in Doborján (now Raiding) throughout his school years in Vienna to the start of his career as a pianist-composer. As a result of an international cooperation of the European Liszt Museums, the exhibition features rarely seen documents and manuscripts.

Liszt Prize winner, Bartók-Pásztory Prize winner and Prima Prize winner pianist Dénes Várjon has received a prestigious international music award for his album Es war einmal.

Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun’s harp piece, Nu Shu was presented to an audience of eight thousand at the Shenzhen Stadium, featuring harpist Mira Farkas, sponsee of the Artist Management Office of the Liszt Academy. Among other things, we asked the young musician about her successful concert.

The Weiner Leó Memorial Prize, founded by the Weiner Leó Legacy Committee at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, was awarded on the 134th anniversary of the composer's birth. Recognition is given to outstanding musicians and music teachers who have successfully devoted themselves to teaching and music for many decades in the spirit of Leó Weiner.