Gramofon Awards for Liszt Academy Professors

Concerto Armonico (with Márta Ábrahám and Miklós Spányi in the middle)

Miklós Spányi, the Carl Philipp Emanuel specialist keyboard artist – who teaches harpsichord, pianoforte, chamber music and old music at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – and his old music ensemble, which was established exactly 30 years ago, in 1983, and has Márta Ábrahám, another professor of the Academy as concertmaster, received the 2013 Gramofon Hungarian Classical Music Award at the prize-giving ceremony organized for the 13th year by the Gramofon music magazine on 13 December 2013. The winners are going to give a concert on 29 December at the Liszt Academy, where Miklós Spányi's orchestral suite composed for this occasion is also to be premiered. The harpsichord player speaks about his new piece, among other things, in an article published apropos of the award in the winter issue of Gramofon.

Photo: Hamarits Zsolt

Also appearing in the magazine is a comprehensive interview with jazz pianist and composer Károly Binder, the winner of the 2013 Gramofon Hungarian Jazz Award. One part of the conversation with the Head of the Jazz Department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music – who is to give an author's concert on 8 March 2014 in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy – can be read by clicking here. Besides the well-earned award, in the interview Károly Binder talks about the jazz education at the Academy, the relationship between masters and students, his new quartet, as well as the Jazz here! concert series organized at the Liszt Academy.

Our heartfelt congratulations to the winners!