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Bartók World Competition

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. 

 

Bartók birthday concert

24 March 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Chamber Music, So Close

Bartók birthday concert Presented by Liszt Academy

Concert of the Chamber Music Department of the Liszt Academy

Kodály: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 4
Hagiwara Izumi (cello), Áron Lescsinszky (piano)
Bartók: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, BB 85
Kanon Aoki (violin), Kaisei Mizuno (piano)

INTERMISSION

Bartók: String Quartet No. 3, BB 93
András Vavrinecz, Zsófia Fóris (violin), Szilárd Albert Sándor (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Kodály: Intermezzo
András Vavrinecz (violin), Szilárd Albert Sándor (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Bartók: Contrasts, BB 116
Gergely Szabó (violin), Tomcic Roland (clarinet), Olivér Kepes (piano)

Béla Bartók was admitted to the Liszt Academy in 1899, where he was a student of István Thomán for piano and János Koessler for composition until 1903. As the successor of Thomán, he taught at his former alma mater from 1907 and teaching piano at the Liszt Academy remained his main position and constant occupation until his transfer to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1934. Bartók performed on numerous occasions in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, and several of his works were premiered publicly within these walls for the first time. The program of the concert commemorating the 143rd anniversary of his birth, presents a cross-section of his chamber music work: a sonata and a string quartet from the 1920s, as well as a specially composed trio from the late 1930s. In addition, the concert will feature lesser-known instrumental works from the early period of his colleague and friend, Zoltán Kodály.

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.

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

HUF 3 500

Concert series:

Chamber Music, So Close

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Other events in the concert series:

2024. 12. 10
19:00
Chamber Music of Sibelius
Chamber Music, So Close

Chamber Music of Sibelius

Vilmos Szabadi, Márta Gulyás, Péter Bársony & Sebestyén Ludmány

Solti Hall