Concert Centre News

Soloist chamber musicians

12 April 2016

You’d be hard-pressed to mention a classical instrumental genre in which Beethoven did not reign supreme. The piano trio is no exception. It is thought of by many as the non plus ultra of chamber music. What makes Beethoven trios so special and how do they challenge performers? We quizzed Dénes Várjon about the series of Beethoven’s complete piano trios.

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Liszt Academy on the leaderboard of the world’s arts universities

2 April 2016

The 2016 top list of the QS World University Rankings, reckoned as one of the foremost global education surveys (released in late March), shows the Budapest Liszt Academy (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music) ranked as the 30th best performance arts university in the world.

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The nightingale of Sakhalin

16 March 2016

Julia Lezhneva was still a young girl when she received Cecilia Bartoli's Vivaldi aria CD as a present at the turn of the Millennium. Today she possesses probably one of the most exciting voices and personalities of the post-Bartoli generation. She will be giving an aria recital at the Liszt Academy.

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Parity

11 March 2016

There is no better example of the symbiosis of teaching and concert performing than the “On the Spot” series introducing the departments of the Liszt Academy. On the occasion of the percussionists’ concert, head of the percussion department Zoltán Rácz, Kossuth Prize laureate and founder of Amadinda, and pianist Balázs Fülei, director of the Chamber Music Workshop, spoke about the case for criticism, thoughtful art teaching and the ideal teacherstudent relationship.

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Liszt Academy opening schedule during the spring holidays

11 March 2016

We kindly inform visitors that the buildings of the Liszt Academy, including the ticket office on Liszt Ferenc Square, will be closed on 15 March and on 27-28 March. Furthermore, no tours of the building will be held on these holidays.

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EUphony at the Liszt Academy

4 March 2016

The Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy will host a very special event on 3 March: an orchestra of young musicians will perform an extraordinary programme that the Hungarian audience may rarely hear.

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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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