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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 World Competition & Festival – Piano 2019

10 September 2019, 18.30-21.10

Solti Hall

Bartók World Competition & Festival – Piano 2019 Presented by Liszt Academy

Preliminary 4

The history of international music competitions in Budapest dates back to 1933 when the first Liszt competition was organized. Although the event attracted huge interest and the attention of the press, circumstances did not favour the intention to establish a tradition in this regard. The competition was held but differences of opinion between members of the jury resulted in a scandal when it came to announcing the results, and this certainly played a large part in the fact that there was no continuation of the initiative for many years. True, there was a Bartók competition in 1948, but this was a one-off: in reality, the great competitions only got going again in 1956 with the revival of the Liszt competition. Although the organizers clearly intended this event to be the continuation of the 1933 competition, it was soon linked to the name of Bartók as well: between 1961 and 1986, in essence it operated as the Liszt–Bartók competition. Even though all music competitions organized in Budapest since 1933 are closely associated with the history of the Bartók competition, still the Bartók World Competition and Festival is a fundamentally different enterprise to traditional instrumental contests. Launched in 2017, the series announces an instrumental round every other year, concentrating on those segments of performance art, that is, piano, violin and chamber music, that are of particular importance in the oeuvre of Bartók. Composer competitions are held in the intervening years, and these always relate to the instrumental repertoire of the coming year. In addition, the competition is accompanied by a biannual international scientific conference, thus allowing interested parties the opportunity to examine the Bartók oeuvre from all possible angles – or if they decide, simply to immerse themselves in the diversity of new and original artistic productions.

 

18:30-18:50 Benedek Horváth

18:50-19:10 Jiang WenQiao

19:10-19:30 Balázs Kálvin

19:30-19:50 Kliavina Alena

19:50-20:10 intermission

20:10-20:30 Peter Klimo

20:30-20:50 Krisztián Kocsis

20:50-21:10 Menjon Bohanna Alberto Greer

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

Admission is free, subjected to the capacity of the room.

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