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Variations on Virtuosity – Chamber Music sensations, celebrated international stars and young talents brought to you by the 2019 Season Tickets of the Liszt Academy

Variations on Virtuosity – Chamber Music sensations, celebrated international stars and young talents brought to you by the 2019 Season Tickets of the Liszt Academy

5 November 2018

Europe’s most supreme chamber music ensembles will arrive to the Music Academy in 2019 alongside soloists like Lisa Batiashvili or István Várdai. The two Hungarian violin virtuosos Barnabás Kelemen and Kristóf Baráti are playing chamber music while Ádám Fisher is to appear on stage as a conductor. The Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir will  perform as resident ensemble and the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and others. Contemporary music enthusiasts can listen to the works  of György Kurtág and György Ligeti as well as a composers’ group of young Hungarians. Of course the popular series Liszt Kidz Academy is to be continued in the spring.

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Emotional connectedness in the choir

Emotional connectedness in the choir

31 October 2018

László Norbert Nemes, director of the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir, knows the sensation that he shares with so many others in Hungary: when someone adds their own voice to the harmony, this choir member becomes part a sublime, majestic unity.

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’Guitar –  not only for singles, but for pairs as well’

’Guitar – not only for singles, but for pairs as well’

29 October 2018

The fifth Budapest International Guitar Festival is to be held this year, keeping the guitar in chamber music in focus this time. We asked the founder of the festival: Liszt Prize winning guitarrist József Eötvös, head of Strings Department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music regarding the programme and the performing artists.

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Historical organ of the Academy restored with an 800 million HUF government grant

Historical organ of the Academy restored with an 800 million HUF government grant

24 October 2018

As a result of nine years of efforts and cooperation, restored Voit organ of symbolic importance in Hungarian music life, sounded again in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Music on 22 October. Relocation and restoration of the first organ installed in a concert hall in Hungary, after a century of vicissitudes, was an event of significance for the conservation of European cultural heritage as well.

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