Autumn master courses at the Liszt Academy

The first visitor of the Liszt Academy on October 14, 2013 is Catrin Finch, the harp professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. The artist, who was barely twenty when she won the title of ‘official harpist' to the Prince of Wales, an office unfilled since the reign of Queen Victoria, is primarily expecting students of the Liszt Academy of Music to her day-long master course held at the Ligeti György building's Studio.

From the United States, Judit Neszlényi is arriving to hold master courses on October 18-19. The pianist had studied from György Faragó, one of Ernő Dohnányi's favorite students, at the Liszt Academy and she also studied composition from Zoltán Kodály and János Viski. Between 1974 and 1986 she taught piano at the California State University in Los Angeles and has considered her mission to promote Liszt's legacy. Her master course at the Liszt Academy, which is free, but open actively only to the students of the Liszt Academy of Music and passively to the students of the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music, will also primarily focus on Liszt and piano pieces of other romantic composers.

Visiting the List Academy also from America will be Carol Wincenc, one of the most renowned flutists today and an equally respected chamber musician. The professor of the Juilliard School of Music is expecting both active and passive applicants to her master courses held on October 20-21. It is a great honor that the world-famous and acclaimed flutist will also give a master course-closing concert at the Old Academy of Music on October 20 at 7p.m.

Another flutist, but also a baroque flute expert, Idikó Kertész is awaiting all those interested in baroque musical techniques on October 24-26 in the Liszt Academy's Old Music Hall (1091 Bp., Üllői út 25. 1st floor). The soloist of the Orfeo Orchestra and member of the Ensemble Campanile has held master courses at the Juilliard School (New York), the Curtis Institute (Philadelphia) and the Rice University (Houston). Her master course at the Liszt Academy is free of charge for the students of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Béla Bartók Secondary School of Music. You can apply for the master course with both modern and baroque musical instruments and chamber groups are also welcome.

As the finale of the master course series, we welcome the winner of the 2004 International Pablo Casals Cello Competition, cellist László Fenyő at the Liszt Academy. All Liszt Academy students are welcome to take an active part, free of charge, in his courses held at the Old Academy of Music - Chamber Hall on November 6-8, 2013, but the organizers also await applications from passive students.

You can read more about the master courses and the exact application requirements on the Students' Notice Board.