Schedule of live rounds 2-10 September

Preliminaries: 3 September 15:00 and 19:00; 4 September 15:00 and 19:00; 5 September 15:00

Admission is free.

Although the Bartók World Competition has not yet been running for several decades, it is already one of the most prestigious competitions in the world: hundreds of entries are received for each year, and every year the audience and jury hear world-class performances - not only in the final but also in the preliminaries thanks to the video preselection round. The preliminaries will be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy

Semi-finals: 6 September 19:00; 7 September 15:00 and 19:00

Admission is free.

Every two years, the competition organises an instrumental round, with a composition competition in the even years. In 2022, the task was to write a violin-piano duo, the winning pieces became compulsory pieces for the current semi-final: all competitors must perform one of them. The semi-finals will also be held in the Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy.

Orchestral finals: 9 September, 15:00 and 19:00. Tickets are available by clicking on the selected time.

Only the best young artists will be admitted to the orchestral finals of the Violin Competition, with six young artists scheduled to compete. They will have a choice of seven concertos for the final competition in the main hall of the Liszt Academy: in addition to two Bartók concertos, the final will include a violin concerto by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven or Sibelius. Featuring the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by János Kovács.

Gala concert: 10 September at 19:30 in the Great Hall of the Liszt Academy. Tickets are available here.

Liszt Academy is streaming all the live rounds on Youtube.

19 March 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Here and Now

Amadinda Percussion Project Presented by Liszt Academy

Chávez: Toccata
Cage: Three²
Javier Álvarez: Metro Chabacano

INTERMISSION

Harrison: Violin Concerto
Sculptured Sound – improvization

Oszkár Varga (violin)
Zoltán Rácz & percussion students of the Liszt Academy

The Amadinda Percussion Project is a key workshop for modern music education at the Liszt Academy. The spring concert will be based around pieces from the modern percussion repertoire that are now considered classics. Lou Harrison was working on the specially orchestrated Violin Concerto as early as the 1940s, with the final version completed in 1959. The work was premiered in Hungary in 1986. András Wilheim said at the time that, compared with his colleague John Cage, Harrison was “almost a revivalist of the Romantic tradition”. The concert will also feature works by two Mexican composers. Chávez’s Toccata was written in 1942, while his compatriot Javier Álvarez’s Metro Chabacano, from 1991, refers to a kinetic sculpture in a Mexican metro station. The composition is one of the most frequently performed works by the recently deceased composer and was originally written for string quartet. The four-marimba transcription was premiered by the Mexican percussion ensemble Tambuco.

All tickets to the event are sold out.

We offer an independent discount scheme for the concerts organized by the Liszt Academy. The discounts available are:

10% discount for the simultaneous purchase of tickets for two different concerts;

15% discount for the simultaneous purchase of tickets for three different concerts;

20% discount on the total purchase price if you buy tickets for four or more different concerts at the same time.