It is with profound sorrow that we announce the death of Péter Komlós, violinist, former professor of the Liszt Academy and founding first violinist of the Bartók String Quartet.

The 20th anniversary of the Liszt Academy Seminar was celebrated with a jubilee gala concert by the Sapporo Kitara Concert Hall and the Liszt Academy.

On 1 May and 5 June in the Main Building of the Liszt Academy the guided tours will not be held and the ticket office will also be closed.

The pianist, Márta Gulyás, was presented the award in the Assembly Room of the Liszt Academy, on 20 April.

Based on the judgement of the three-member jury, representatives of twenty-three countries from four continents will have the chance to take to the stage of the Liszt Academy between 10 and 17 September. Forty-five of the successful candidates are ladies, while twenty competitors are men.

On 4 April, the director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, Dr Zsuzsanna Domokos presented the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with the bust of Ferenc Liszt.

The record by the trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki, member of the Liszt Academy academic staff, was recognised with the International Classical Music Award (IMCA) in the category ‘Contemporary music’.

The Zoltán Kodály Composition and Musicology Scholarship, the Annie Fischer Music Performance Scholarship and the Dezső Lakatos-Ablakos Jazz Performance Scholarship were conferred on several students of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy on 3 April.

In the category of popular music, Attila László, while in the category of classical music, Péter Tornyai were the winners of the award of the Artisjus Hungarian Copyright Office Association this year. The life achievement award for popular music composition went to Károly Binder.

Please, be informed that due to the high number of applications, the list of the applicants having qualified for the preliminary round of the International Violin Competition of the Bartók World Competition & Festival will be published on 20 April, 2017, five days after the originally announced date.