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.

The awards were conferred at the Liszt Academy on 25 March, 2017, the 136th anniversary of Béla Bartók’s birth.

The Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy had the honour to host the gala concert and award ceremony of the Cziffra Festival on 26 February, 2017.

The Liszt-prize winning choral conductor, music teacher and a former lead teacher of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Mária Katanics died on 23 January, 2017, at the age of 88. The funeral service will take place on Thursday, 9 February at 2:30pm in the Makovecz Hall of the Farkasrét Cemetery.