This year’s Prima Primissima Awards were given to outstanding representatives of Hungarian intellectual life, art, science and sport. At tha gala night on Friday, Kálmán Balogh cimbalom artist, teacher at the Liszt Academy Folk Music Department was one of the award winners.

This is to inform our visitors that during the holiday season our Liszt Ferenc Square ticket office will be open as usual, with the exception of the 24th, 25th and 26th of December.

'An account of a very remarkable young musician', says the table of contents of a six hundred page book published in 1781. The english edition of Miscellanies, among studies on various topics such as the periodical appearance and disappearance of certain birds, the possibilities of accessing the arctic, as well as ancient tragedies, also contains one of the most important documents on Mozart's wunderkind years.

Imperial Princess Kako visited the Liszt Academy of Music on Monday, where following a short walk and a mini-concert by some Japanese students, she talked enthusiastically about the special features of the main building and the education there.

With top awards from over 20 international piano competitions to his credit,  Russian-born Alexandre Moutouzkine, who now lives and teaches in New York and is a member of the jury for the competition, will contribute to the decision on which young talent is to be the winner. A lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music, he admits that discovering Bartók’s universe is an experience beyond description to a performing artist.

Lithuanian pianist Mūza Rubackytė divides her time between Vilnius, Paris and Geneva. Indeed, she is a welcome guest on every continent, and her home country has recognised her with a Medal of Honour, among other awards. As a member of the jury of the Bartók World Competition and as the Director of Music of the Vilnius Piano Music Festival, she has presented a special prize to the winner of the competition, Ádám Szokolay: an opportunity for him to perform in the Lithuanian capital in November 2021.

He was born in the United States and lives there, but speaks perfect Hungarian and has been drawn to Bartók’s music since the very beginning. Peter Klimo took the stage with Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the orchestral finals of the Bartók World Competition.