The record by the trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki, member of the Liszt Academy academic staff, was recognised with the International Classical Music Award (IMCA) in the category ‘Contemporary music’.

The Zoltán Kodály Composition and Musicology Scholarship, the Annie Fischer Music Performance Scholarship and the Dezső Lakatos-Ablakos Jazz Performance Scholarship were conferred on several students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy on 3 April.

In the category of popular music, Attila László, while in the category of classical music, Péter Tornyai were the winners of the award of the Artisjus Hungarian Copyright Office Association this year. The life achievement award for popular music composition went to Károly Binder.

Please, be informed that due to the high number of applications, the list of the applicants having qualified for the preliminary round of the International Violin Competition of the Bartók World Competition & Festival will be published on 20 April, 2017, five days after the originally announced date.

The awards were conferred at the Liszt Academy on 25 March, 2017, the 136th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s birth.

One hundred and six young violinists representing 26 nations have submitted applications for the first international violin competition being staged in September 2017.

On the 15 March and 16-17 April, the ticket office of the Liszt Academy will be closed.

Until 12 March, a 20% discount is provided on the tickets for the exhibition The First Golden Age to all who purchased their conventional, full price tickets at the ticket office of the Liszt Academy.

We kindly ask our future contestants not to submit their online application in the last minute.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Zoltán Kodály’s death, on 5 March, Kodály’s favourite room at the Liszt Academy was officially inaugurated receiving the composer’s name. Hungary’s Secretary of State for Culture, Dr Péter Hoppál, the President of the Liszt Academy, Dr Andrea Vigh and the curator of the exhibition and professor of the Liszt Academy András Batta delivered their addresses at the inauguration ceremony and related exhibition opening.