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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. 

 

Concert on the Occasion of the International Day for Monuments

17 April 2024, 19.30-22.00

Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

Concert on the Occasion of the International Day for Monuments Presented by Liszt Academy

Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano
Maria Graefe (violin), Natascha Paulich (piano)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Maria Graefe, Lena Loncar (violin), András Kalocsai (viola), Nikos Maridi (cello), Ignasi Prunés De Riba (piano)

INTERMISSION

Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Zsófia Ujváry-Menyhárt (violin), Eric Libertun (piano)
Dvořák: 12. (F major) String Quartet, Op. 96 („Amerikai”)
Anna Runtic, Orsolya Beatrix Csata (violin), Lilien Földházi (viola), Nina Zvone (cello)

April 18th marks the International Day for Monuments and Sites. The event was first held in 1984 and since then it has grown into a worldwide event. The primary aim is not just to nourish preserved monuments and sites but to raise the public awareness of our cultural heritage’s invaluable merit. Several buildings of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music are classified as historical monuments both on national and international level. As an appreciation of the highly successful restoration of the main building it has received the European Heritage Label Site title as well as the Europa Nostra prize in 2015. With tonight’s concert we would like to commemorate the important role of the Liszt Academy as a highly recognized institution and monument not just in Europe but  worldwide as well. We would like to entertain tonight’s guests with pieces by distinguished composers from all over Europe to emphasize the fact that although the building itself may be founded in Hungary its reputation is appreciated worldwide. To emphasize the theme tonight’s performers arrived from all over Europe thanky to programs like the ERASMUS+ mobility program among others.

Presented by

Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music

Tickets:

Admission is free, subject to availability of seats.

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