Concert Centre News

Bartók Konzi at the Liszt Academy

10 October 2016

The ensembles of the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music (Bartók ‘Konzi’) give three concerts at the Liszt Academy in the 2016–17 concert season. Szabolcs Benkő, director of the conservatory, spoke to the Concert Magazine about the close relationship between the two institutions and about future plans.

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Erasmus+ funding for the creative revisiting of music education practice

7 October 2016

Within the framework of an international strategic cooperation programme, with the Liszt Academy as the lead organisation, partner institutions from Budapest, the Netherlands and Scotland will collaborate to carry out methodological improvements in music education based on the principles of the Kodály method.

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The 2016 Liszt Birthday Festival at the Old Academy of Music

6 October 2016

Both the birthday of the founder and namesake of the Liszt Academy, 22 October, and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre form the inspiration for the gala concert series taking place in the Chamber Hall of the Old Academy of Music on each Saturday of this month.

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In the roles of women dependent on men

12 September 2016

She has already enjoyed a career spanning 17 years, yet she still ranks among the generation of youthful singers. As well as being attracted to 20–21st century music, she also finds the Baroque repertoire especially to her taste, while she has worked with some of the greatest – Abbado, Boulez, Harnoncourt included – in both areas. World-famous soprano Anna Prohaska brings arias by Baroque heroines to the Liszt Academy. In an interview with the Concert Magazine she speaks about her programme choice, dream roles, development of her voice and discrimination against women.

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