The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, with the support of Artisjus held composing workshops for high school students in four country towns – three workshops in each town. The most successful works were presented on 2 October at the Liszt Academy.

In the current academic year, several lecturers were awarded new positions at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. This includes a new leader for the Keyboard and Harp Department and the Violin Sub-Department of the Strings Department.

Dr. Andrea Vigh, Rector of the Liszt Academy, Dr. Pál Richter, head of the Department of Folk Music at the university and the director of the Institute of Musicology, and Balázs Kocsár, chief music director at the State Opera House attended the joint wreath-laying ceremony.

The Fidelio editorial board, aided by a number of renowned patrons, have compiled this year’s list of artists who made an outstanding contribution to their field last year. The list includes three lecturers at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.

Postponed from spring due to the epidemic, the Leó Weiner Memorial Prize, awarded by the Liszt Academy Board of Trustees, was now handed over at a closed event.