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The most important class, however, for me and for hundreds of other Hungarian musicians, was the chamber-music class. From about the age of fourteen, and until graduation from the Academy, all instrumentalists except the heavy-brass players and percussionists had to participate in this course. Presiding over it for many years was the composer Leó Weiner, who thus exercised an enormous influence on three generations of Hungarian musicians.
Sir Georg Solti

Máté Bella scores a success in Helsinki

18 May 2014

The assistant professor of the Liszt Academy received an award in the under-30 composers’ category at one of the world’s most prestigious radio contemporary music contests.

The 24-member jury of Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs, held this year in Finland for the 61st occasion, selected Máté Bella's composition Trance as one of the best three in the category for composers under the age of 30. In the wake of this prize the work for solo violin and chamber ensemble written by the assistant professor at the Liszt Academy will be played over the next year on radio stations around the world, from Mexico through Australia to China. At the festival a recording of Trance was performed by Katalin Kokas and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Chamber Ensemble under the baton of Gergely Vajda. Three years ago Máté Bella saw another of his compositions, Dream of Chuang Tzu, get into the Lisbon final of the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs.