This essay had been written by President of Bard College Conservatory, well-known musicologist and conductor, Leon Botstein on Bartók's influence on 20th century music.

Applications for the Bartók World Competition & Festival – International Violin Competition 2017 may be submitted as latest by 26 March. Early Birds uploading their application material before 15 February are entitled to a 50% discount from the application fee.

For many years now, Opera Exam Festival recitals have ranked among the most exciting of the Liszt Academy’s programmes in January. We spoke with András Almási-Tóth, head of the Liszt Academy Opera Programme, about the objectives and opportunities of the series as well as the performers and what it takes to direct an opera.

In the first weeks of 2017, soloists and ensembles of worldwide acclaim are coming to perform on the stage of the Liszt Academy, such as Viktoria Mullova, Leszek Możdżer, Jason Moran, Cyprien Katsaris, the Holland Baroque Society and the London Sinfonietta.

She is one of the most multifaceted violinists of our day: she plays Baroque on a period instrument, the great Romantic and 20th century repertoire on a modern violin, yet she is also open to folk music and jazz. Viktoria Mullova was born in the Soviet Union but defected at the age of 23, since when she has lived in the West. She arrives at the Liszt Academy with a Baroque programme, although in her interview with Concert Magazine the subject matter extended far beyond this: from her childhood, fears and joint projects with her jazz musician husband, to practical matters concerning playing the violin.

Please, be kindly notified that instead of the concert featuring Péter Frankl and the Kelemen Quartet, the Liszt Academy wishes to recompense the audience with the 8 October performance of the Quartetto Accordo.

The Bartók World Competition & Festival is accompanied by a musicological programme related to the main subject of the 2017 competition, “Bartók and the Violin”.

This is to kindly inform you that due to an unfortunate accident suffered by Péter Frankl, the Four by four plus one subscription concert orginally scheduled for 11 January, 2017 is postponed to a later date.

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The Liszt Academy has launched the Bartók World Competition and Festival as the closing chord of the 2016 Bartók Year. The competition debuts with the violin category in September 2017. Violinists under the age of 30 can submit applications with a deadline of 26 March 2017.