7 June 2026, 10.00-19.00
Liszt Ferenc place
Liszt-Picnic 
Presented by Liszt Academy
Time change
We invite you to a free, all-day outdoor event on June 7 at Liszt Ferenc Square. At the Liszt Picnic, we will announce our fall 2026 season and, for the first time in many years, offer season tickets to our audience. At the event, we’ll turn the Liszt Academy upside down: we’ll build a stage in the square, and music will play from morning till night. Several artists will perform—artists the audience can hear during the fall concerts—including Gábor Farkas, Izabella Simon, Eszter Karasszon, János Balázs, 3B, as well as students from the Academy’s vocal, wind, percussion, and jazz departments. Our ticket office will also be moving outdoors, where our new season tickets will be available for purchase, and single-concert tickets will be sold at a 20% discount. We’ll have children’s programs, prize games, and gift items, and visitors can sample the Liszt menu at Korhely Restaurant, enjoy cocktails from ShowRum in the Academy’s gazebos, and refresh themselves with selections from the Cafe Vergnano coffee tricycle. See you at the Liszt Picnic!
Host: Bálint Magyar actor
10.00 Opening, Dr. Gábor Farkas rector
10.10 Carpathian Basin String Folk Music
3B: Bence Attila Biszak (violin), Barnabás János Erőss (viola), Ádám Bernáth (double bass)
10.25 Children's Program
Featuring: Beáta Mészáros
11.10 János Balázs (piano)
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Troisième année » 4. Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Wagner–Liszt: Isoldens Liebestod aus Tristan und Isolde
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
12.00 Wind Chamber Music 1
Kuhlau: Flute Duos
J. S. Bach: Flute
Viktória Pusomi, Noémi Bakó (saxophone)
12.15 Children's Program
Featuring: Beáta Mészáros
13.00 String Chamber Music 1
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 » I.II movement
Barnabás Somogyi (violin), Marcell Leczky (cello), Péter Raffai (piano)
14.00 Chamber Music
Monteverdi: Cantate Domino
Allegri: Miserere
Purcell: Sound the trumpet, beat the drum
Mozart: „Wie? Wie? Wie?” – Quintet of Papageno, Tamino and the Three ladies from the opera Die Zauberflöte, Act 2
Mozart: „Sola, sola in buio loco” – sextet from the opera Don Giovanni, Act 2
Students of the Department of Vocal & Opera Studies
Erika Dallos (piano)
14.20 Percussionists
Philidor Brothers: March
Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
Áskell Másson: Frum – A Drum Song
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque » excerpts
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
Boglárka Fábry, Benjámin Mizsák, Bence Siptár, Péter Szilágyi, Zheng Kaiwen (percussion)
15.30 Wind Chamber Music 2
Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24/2
Zsófia Bencsik (flute), Villó Kalmár (oboe), Kincső Puklics (clarinet), Tamás Varga (bassoon), Bodó Gschwindt (horn)
Veress: Sonatina for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
Fruzsina Mitnyan (oboe), Marcell Szabó (clarinet), Petra Stankowsky (bassoon)
Szervánszky: Wind Quintet
Luca Szűcs (flute), Luca Czombos (oboe), Szilvia Lambert (clarinet), Tamás Varga (bassoon), Gyula Hantos (horn)
Mendelssohn –Gergely Ittzés: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61 » Scherzo
Bozza: Jour d’été à la montagne » 1. Pastorale
Blanka Borsi, Anna Csuvár, Zsófia Eperjesi, Eszter Szegedi (flute)
16.15 Chamber Music
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Mozart: Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge (Komm, lieber Mai), K. 596
Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied, Op. 76/52
Yvette Hintalan-Mondok (vocals), Eszter Karasszon (cello), Izabella Simon (piano)
16.45 Jazz
Levente Bédy's band: Levente Bédy (guitar), Máté Balogh (saxophone), Sándor Suke (double bass), Máté Éles (drums)
17.05 String Chamber Music 2
18.00 Gábor Farkas (piano)
Works by Liszt
The Library of the Liszt Academy of Music will open its normally off-limits areas to the public. We warmly welcome everyone who is brave enough to venture into the depths of the storage rooms and curious to see how more than half a million sheet music scores and books fit into the Library of the Liszt Academy of Music. Registration is required for the program, as we can accommodate a maximum of 15 people per tour. You can register by emailing olvasoszolgalat@zeneakademia.hu.
Library Tour Times:
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
Participation is free of charge.