Concert Centre News

Liszt Academy - three-time Red Dot Award Winner

14 August 2017

The image spot of the Bartók World Competition & Festival to be held this fall for the first time has been recognised with one of the most prestigious international communication design prizes. With this prize, the number of creativity awards acknowledging the event paying tribute to Bartók’s memory organised by the Liszt Academy has come to three.

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Closer to Bartók

8 August 2017

More than 100 artists had registered for the competition bearing the name of the universally acknowledged Hungarian composer. This first competition – launching in a month’s time - is open to violinists. Of the entrants, more than 50 received the opportunity to perform live in front of a jury.

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Gábor Boldoczki, laureate of the Echo Klassik Award

31 July 2017

In the category ’Instrumentalist’, the trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki, member of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music academic staff was acknowledged with the highly prestigious award for his label Oriental Trumpet Concertos.

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Special venue hosting Dohnányi’s 140th birthday celebration

29 June 2017

On 23 June, the Dohnányi’s villa and garden – now privately owned- opened its gates to host the composer’s 140th birthday celebration. The invitees attended a wreathing ceremony, an out-of-the-ordinary villa and garden tour, and for the first time in the history of the building, a concert in Dohnányi’s study.

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Szabolcs Mátyássy’s award-winning opera at the Bartók Plus Opera Festival

26 June 2017

Scævola, the work of the young composition graduate of the Liszt Academy, Szabolcs Mátyássy - winner of the opera composition contest of the 2016 Bartók Plus Opera Festival - was performed by Andrea Rost and the opera students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music directed by András Almási-Tóth at this year’s opera festival at the Miskolc National Theatre on 21 June.

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Silver Blade, which is worth gold

31 May 2017

The image of the Bartók World Competition and Festival has been awarded the Silver Blade prize in the category Design Solutions/Image and Logo Design issued by the Association of Communication Agencies in Hungary for the 18th time this year.

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