The inaugural Budapest International Guitar Competition is being organized between 4-8 November 2014. More than 30 young guitarists from 20 countries will demonstrate their skills and talents before an international jury and a Budapest audience.

How is it possible for a French pianist to feel closer to Bartók than to Debussy? Let's meet a musician who was Sir Georg Solti's last discovery, was supported by Georges Cziffra, and today plays chamber music with some of Hungary's greatest musicians. An interview with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who in November will be giving a two-piano concert with Balázs Szokolay at the Liszt Academy.

The Director of Communications at the Liszt Academy, Imre Szabó Stein, was in Berlin on October 24 to personally pick up on behalf of his team the prestigious Red Dot prize. Often referred to as a design Oscar, it was awarded for the Liszt Academy's newly created corporate identity.

The Liszt Academy has entered into a strategic alliance with three Budapest educational establishments to bring new life to the world famous Kodály Method of teaching, as well as creating an exemplary model representing the full scale of Hungarian vocal and music public education. The schools are the Városmajor Secondary School, the Károly Kós Specialist Music and Singing Primary School and the Városmajor Street Kindergarten.

József Bazsinka, Luíz de Moura Castro and Péter Eötvös will be guest teachers at the Liszt Academy in November 2014.

Isabelle Faust is regular guest in Budapest, on 27 November her partner will be the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Heinz Holliger. Portrait of the violin virtuoso by József Kling.

A student of the Liszt Academy’s Doctoral School received shared first place for her interpretation of modern organ music.

Doctoral students of the Liszt Academy representing the Composition Department staged lectures and concerts under the leadership of Gyula Fekete between 3-12 October.

“The essence of composition is impact” - says David Lang. The article of Szabolcs Molnár helps to understand the know-how of the Californian composer, whose two pieces will be performed on 26 October 2014 at Liszt Academy.

Check out the online broadcast of the final round (21 September 2014) of Liszt Academy’s first major self-organized competition.