Tickets have gone on sale for the Liszt Academy’s 2022 concerts that will feature several international celebrities and rarely performed works. Those who buy tickets to several concerts of a given series will receive significant discounts.

Ten young talents were awarded the Junior Prima Prize in Music this year and the majority of the winners are current and former students of the Liszt Academy. The jury was chaired by Dr. Andrea Vigh, President of the university, and renowned faculty members sat on the panel.

A new publication – complete with a DVD - featuring unknown versions of Franz Liszt's works was presented at the Old Academy of Music on November 13. At the event, Alajos Landau's 1873 charcoal drawing of Liszt, purchased by the Liszt Museum Foundation in Vienna, was also unveiled.

The members of the string quartets that won the top three prizes - including the Hungarian musicians of the Vienna-based Chaos String Quartet - unanimously praised the professional organization of the competition, and all of them feel that Bartók's music has opened up new vistas for them.

The Quartet Integra was awarded the first prize totalling 12,000 euros at Sunday’s awards ceremony and gala evening of the 2021 Bartók World Competition for string quartets.

The international jury judged that the string quartets competing in Thursday’s semi-finals were so excellent that they allowed more formations than initially planned to take part in Saturday’s final.

The international jury on Wednesday night selected seven quartets, instead of the initially planned six, that will advance to the semi-finals.

The Liszt Academy’s 2021 Bartók World Competition kicked off Monday afternoon with determining the order of performance of participating quartets.

The Liszt Academy is commemorating the 210th birth anniversary of Franz Liszt with the Liszt Birthday Festival, a large-scale programme series held between October 9-22.