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Dialogue of traditions

29 February 2016

Uri Caine is unsettlingly hard to classify as a composer: his works demonstrate that post-modernist aesthetics and certain modern trends in jazz share many common points. They renounce a linear depiction of history; they are fixated with allusions and eclecticism and to questioning the traditional terms of originality and authorship.

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Kurtág festival at the Liszt Academy

26 February 2016

The highpoint of the Kurtág 90 festival (14-21 February) organized by BMC was the birthday concert in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, following which the 90-year-old composer was awarded an honorary professorial degree by President of the Academy Dr. Andrea Vigh.

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Virtuosity – An Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Liszt Academy

25 February 2016

We are pleased to announce the joint symposium of the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy and ESCOM (European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music), an interdisciplinary event to be held in Budapest, in the Art Nouveau palace of the Liszt Academy between 3 and 6 March 2016.

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Plácido Domingo visits the Liszt Academy

11 February 2016

The world-famous tenor, who was in Budapest as a guest for a programme at the Opera House, listened to a recital by pianist Ivett Gyöngyösi before meeting young artists from the TV talent contest Virtuózok in the Liszt Academy’s Grand Hall.

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“I Love Doing New Things”

2 February 2016

One of the most celebrated sopranos of our era, Anne Sofie von Otter, has a repertoire extending from early Baroque through classical and romantic works to jazz and pop music: it is fair to say she an authentic musical omnivore! She now comes to the Liszt Academy with her beloved Baroque music. For this occasion, she gave an interview to Concert Magazine.

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Sándor Devich dies

25 January 2016

Liszt Academy bids farewell to the violinist and professor emeritus of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, who passed away at the age of 81, in the words of academy president Dr. Andrea Vigh.

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Playing Piano In Russian?

7 December 2015

‘The great Russian school of piano.’ One frequently comes across this term in CVs and concert programmes, immediately bringing to mind the names Rachmaninov, Gilels and Richter, and of our day Sokolov, Korolyov, Berezovsky, Kissin or even Matsuev.

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