Applications for the contest – being staged between 19-25 September 2016, with total prize money amounting to €42,000 – can be submitted by sending in video recordings until 27 April.

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.

This is to inform our audience that the band will hold their concert in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy on 29 December.

‘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.

The ensemble collected a silver medal as the best chamber formation at the Società Umanitaria international competition in Milan.

In addition to the online galleries and Street View panorama created in collaboration with Google Cultural Institute, the Liszt Academy has also put together its own self-developed virtual tour.

From 1 December, tickets for concerts in the eight new series announced mid-November can be purchased via the Liszt Academy website and at the box office on Liszt Ferenc Square.

The programme of the next concert in the Chamber Music Tuned for Grand Hall series remains unmodified.

Balázs Dobóczy’s work on the ad clip for the Liszt Academy Concert Centre was voted best in the promotional film category of the 2015 Golden Eye Cinematographer Festival.

The cello contest arranged between 19-22 November ended with a double Liszt Academy victory.