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.

A 21st Century Perspective on Liszt and His Contemporaries

16 May 2024, 09.00-19.00

Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

A 21st Century Perspective on Liszt and His Contemporaries Presented by Liszt Academy

Conference in English and German Language

21st Century Perspective on Liszt and his Contemporaries – the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre is organizing an international conference with the participation of researchers from nine countries. The lectures are given in English and German language. The conference was created with the aim that researchers working in different institutions and countries can share the latest results of the Liszt-research, exchange their experiences personally, also coordinate the future goals of the research. During the two-day meeting, in addition to foreign experts, Hungarian researchers, primarily the members of the Franz Liszt Research Center will present the current situation of the Hungarian Liszt-research. The conference days are closed by a CD and book presentation, and the event ends with the Museum's upcoming morning concert, Marouan Benabdallah's piano recital on 18 May.

9.00:
Chopin–Liszt: Six Polish Songs » 5. Meine Freuden
Gábor Farkas (piano), Head of the Keyboard and Harp Department
Welcome: Gyula Fekete, Vice-President of Research and International Affairs of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and Zsuzsanna Domokos, President of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre
Introduction: Alan Walker

Chair: Zsuzsanna Domokos

9.30: Cécile Reynaud
New data for the study of the Liszt and Berlioz relationship

10.00: Lucas Berton
Liszt und seine Arbeit zum literarischen Stil. Berlioz und seine Harold-Symphonie und andere Beispiele

10.30: Monika Hennemann
Too much like Mendelssohn? Liszt and conservative contemporary music

COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Monika Hennemann

11.20: Rainer Kleinertz
Franz Liszt und Gustav Mahler

11.50: Stephanie Klauk
Liszt, Marx und die Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts

12.20: Boglárka Illyés
Léo Delibes, Liszt and the Budapest Social Life

LUNCH BREAK

Chair: Kenneth Hamilton

15.00: Nicolas Dufetel
Liszt, the Orient and Constantinople: a west-eastern divan between Orientalism and Occidentalism

15.30: Oskar Habjanič
The soft power of Franz Liszt's concert in Maribor (Slovenia) in 1846

16.00: Jonathan Kregor
Grading Liszt

COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Jonathan Kregor

16.45: Mariateresa Storino
Women composers in Liszt's eyes

17.15: Lilla Dóra Bokor
Putting Reményi’s Hungarian repertoire into perspective: assessment of definition, choices and narratives

18.00: CD launch
Kenneth Hamilton: Handel Remembered

Handel–Liszt: Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira

Jonathan Kregor, Kenneth Hamilton
Hungarian interpreter: Boldizsár Fejérvári

Presented by

Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum és Kutatóközpont

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Admission is free, subject to availability of seats.

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