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Herbert Wulf Passes Away

20 November 2013

Former Liszt Academy professor of the Church Music Department passed away at the age of 80 on November 4, 2013.

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Denise Bacon obituary

18 November 2013

Founder and director of the Kodály Musical Training Institute and the Kodály Center of America died peacefully on November 11, 2013 at the Briarwood Health Care facility in Needham, Massachusetts.

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November Master Courses at the Liszt Academy

13 November 2013

Marc Damoulakis, Miklós Perényi, Lajos Rovátkay, Ernő Sebestyén, Simon Standage, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Wolfgang Rathert and Péter Eötvös are all holding master courses in the upcoming weeks at the Liszt Academy of Music.

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Parity

8 November 2013

There can be no better way of revealing the symbiosis of teaching and concert performance than the concert series ”On the Spot”, which introduces the departments of the Liszt Academy. Ahead of the upcoming concerts presenting the Jazz Department and the Trombone Department, pianist Károly Binder, head of the Jazz Department, and trombonist Gusztáv Hőna, head of the Woodwinds and Brass Department, spoke to Tamás Vajna about the importance of scripted music and improvisation, the unavoidability of contemporary music, and the features of Hungarian jazz.

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