As the beneficiary of the 10,000 € scholarship awarded this year for the first time, the second-year MA trumpet student of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music received a recording contract to make his album, as well as numerous invitations to concert performances.

The world-renowned violist will give a recital with Péter Nagy on 26 November 2014 at Liszt Academy. On this occasion she summarized her relation to Hungarian music.

The acronym BJO resonates with promise. This is true if you happen to be thinking about a Hungarian big band. But this time it’s not the Budapest Jazz Orchestra but the Brussels Jazz Orchestra that will be delighting both eye and ear on November 19.

Andrea de Vitis Wins 1st Budapest International Guitar Competition

Andrea de Vitis Wins 1st Budapest International Guitar Competition

On 6 November 2014 The Song Recitals at Liszt Academy series continues with the concert of Emőke Baráth & Gábor Csalog. On this occasion Máté Mesterházi outlined the specialities of the genre.

The inaugural Budapest International Guitar Competition is being organized between 4-8 November 2014. More than 30 young guitarists from 20 countries will demonstrate their skills and talents before an international jury and a Budapest audience.

How is it possible for a French pianist to feel closer to Bartók than to Debussy? Let's meet a musician who was Sir Georg Solti's last discovery, was supported by Georges Cziffra, and today plays chamber music with some of Hungary's greatest musicians. An interview with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who in November will be giving a two-piano concert with Balázs Szokolay at the Liszt Academy.

The Director of Communications at the Liszt Academy, Imre Szabó Stein, was in Berlin on October 24 to personally pick up on behalf of his team the prestigious Red Dot prize. Often referred to as a design Oscar, it was awarded for the Liszt Academy's newly created corporate identity.

The Liszt Academy has entered into a strategic alliance with three Budapest educational establishments to bring new life to the world famous Kodály Method of teaching, as well as creating an exemplary model representing the full scale of Hungarian vocal and music public education. The schools are the Városmajor Secondary School, the Károly Kós Specialist Music and Singing Primary School and the Városmajor Street Kindergarten.