Concert Centre News

The Jazz Faculty turns fifty

5 March 2015

The Jazz Department at Liszt Academy is the direct successor of the Faculty established at Bartók Conservatory 50 years ago. János Gonda, Széchenyi prize winner music historian, Liszt prize winner pianist, professor of the Liszt Academy took on the task of summarizing the Faculty's history on the occasion of the 8 March gala concert.

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Acrobat

27 February 2015

In the course of Liszt Academy's Four by Four series, Zehetmair Quartet will perform on 5th March. Profile of the quartet's eponym by Gergely Fazekas.

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Cath a falling star system

25 February 2015

The most widely read and vitriolic music critic of our day is coming to visit Budapest at the invitation of the Liszt Academy so that he can share his latest research findings with a Hungarian audience. As an introduction, check out his essay entitled Catch a Falling Star System exclusively for Liszt Academy’s January-June 2015 edition of the concert magazine.

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“I live the privieleged life of the Wanderer”

13 February 2015

A young Norwegian talent who, when she was four, wanted to learn the double bass. And yet she ended up a violinist. When Vilde Frang was eleven, she was discovered by Anne-Sophie Mutter, and at twelve made her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. She cannot abide competitions and yet travels the world with the finest orchestras and conductors.

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