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.

16 May 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Competition Winners

Ádám Király Presented by Liszt Academy

Winner of the Great Piano Master Online International Piano Competition

Frescobaldi–Bartók: Toccata
Zipoli–Bartók: Pastorale in C major
della Ciaia–Bartók: Sonata in G major
Bartók: Dance Suite, BB 86b (arranged for piano by the composer)

INTERMISSION

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123 (arranged for piano by the composer)

Ádám Király (piano)

When Béla Bartók was about the same age as Ádám Király is now, he attracted attention by playing Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem “Ein Heldenleben” (A Hero’s Life) in his own piano arrangement. Ádám Király’s first concert at the Liszt Academy – perhaps to honor Bartók’s feat – features exclusively transcriptions made by Bartók. As the opening of the concert, he will perform transcriptions of keyboard works by 17th and 18th-century Italian composers: Bartók wrote these pieces around 1926-1927 and he himself liked performing them at his concerts. In contrast, the transcriptions he made from his own orchestral works were not originally intended for public performance: he wrote the transcription of the Dance Suite at the request of a publisher, while that of the Concerto was prepared for a planned but never staged ballet production. Ádám Király won the first prize at the Great Piano Master Online Piano Competition by performing the latter.

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