She is one of the most multifaceted violinists of our day: she plays Baroque on a period instrument, the great Romantic and 20th century repertoire on a modern violin, yet she is also open to folk music and jazz. Viktoria Mullova was born in the Soviet Union but defected at the age of 23, since when she has lived in the West. She arrives at the Liszt Academy with a Baroque programme, although in her interview with Concert Magazine the subject matter extended far beyond this: from her childhood, fears and joint projects with her jazz musician husband, to practical matters concerning playing the violin.

Please, be kindly notified that instead of the concert featuring Péter Frankl and the Kelemen Quartet, the Liszt Academy wishes to recompense the audience with the 8 October performance of the Quartetto Accordo.

The Bartók World Competition & Festival is accompanied by a musicological programme related to the main subject of the 2017 competition, “Bartók and the Violin”.

This is to kindly inform you that due to an unfortunate accident suffered by Péter Frankl, the Four by four plus one subscription concert orginally scheduled for 11 January, 2017 is postponed to a later date.

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The Liszt Academy has launched the Bartók World Competition and Festival as the closing chord of the 2016 Bartók Year. The competition debuts with the violin category in September 2017. Violinists under the age of 30 can submit applications with a deadline of 26 March 2017.

The Kossuth Prize-winning Eminent Artist, three-times Erkel Prize- and Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory prize winning composer, Kamilló Lendvay passed away just four weeks before his 88th birthday.

The Liszt Academy is proud to launch the Bartók World Competition & Festival on the occasion of the 135th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók.

The condolers could pay their last respects to the great musician, Zoltán Kocsis until noon on Saturday, 19 November by placing a white flower around his catafalque set up in the entrance hall of the Liszt Academy. From 1pm, state officials and the invited, major representatives of the Hungarian music scene could say goodbye to the highly regarded pianist and conductor, who passed away on 6 November.

We kindly inform our audience and visitors, that the recently passed away Zoltán Kocsis will be bidden last farewell to in the Main Building of the Liszt Academy on Liszt Ferenc Square on Saturday, 19 November. The general public will have the opportunty to pay their last respects by placing a flower before the coffin between 8am and 12pm. Due to this mourning ceremony, for technical reasons, the events announced for 10am and 10:30am will be taking place the following day. The guided tour of the building at 13:30 is cancelled, and the ticket office will open at 4pm.