Uri Caine is unsettlingly hard to classify as a composer: his works demonstrate that post-modernist aesthetics and certain modern trends in jazz share many common points. They renounce a linear depiction of history; they are fixated with allusions and eclecticism and to questioning the traditional terms of originality and authorship.

The highpoint of the Kurtág 90 festival (14-21 February) organized by BMC was the birthday concert in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, following which the 90-year-old composer was awarded an honorary professorial degree by President of the Academy Dr. Andrea Vigh.

One of the most celebrated sopranos of our era, Anne Sofie von Otter, has a repertoire extending from early Baroque through classical and romantic works to jazz and pop music: it is fair to say she an authentic musical omnivore! She now comes to the Liszt Academy with her beloved Baroque music. For this occasion, she gave an interview to Concert Magazine.

‘The great Russian school of piano.’ One frequently comes across this term in CVs and concert programmes, immediately bringing to mind the names Rachmaninov, Gilels and Richter, and of our day Sokolov, Korolyov, Berezovsky, Kissin or even Matsuev.

The 140 Years of Music campaign claimed a best-in-category win at the Mediadesign competition, while the following day representatives of the institution collected a Red Dot Award for the Concert Centre image clip in Berlin.