Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro will conduct the Liszt Academy Symphony Orchestra on 26 March 2014 as honorary professor of the university. Márton Devich about the maestro's hungarian roots

The plastic palace finished in 120 hours was not built to become a showpiece, children play with it during junior-programmes, called Liszt Kidz Academy.

After nearly four years, the site accessible at Ifze.hu and primarily designed to serve university teaching needs is being replaced by a modern website redesigned in the Liszt Academy image that was launched in 2013.

The Conducting and Choir Conducting Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and the Rezső Lantos Foundation organized the competition for young choirmasters on 16 March 2014.

In line with tradition, the prizes reckoned to be the most important for the Hungarian music profession were presented on the birthday of Béla Bartók in the Liszt Academy.

The Attitude Quartet received the outstanding award for excellence and special prize of the rector, and a further four chamber formations received awards for excellence at the competition organized in Debrecen between 7-9 March 2014.

Dr. Thomas Mastroianni, President of the American Liszt Society, will hold a two-day piano master class combined with lecture on the works of Liszt associated with literature, on 8-9 April 2014.

Interview with Kristóf Baráti on the occasion of his first solo recital at the Academy of Music. Written by Peter Lorenz

The joint workshop of the Liszt Academy and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Budapest has ended with a successful concert in the Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall.

László Stachó, senior lecturer at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, has won a three-month research scholarship of the joint research centre for music performance of Cambridge University, Oxford University and King's College London.