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.

Viktória Pusomi, Noémi Bakó & János Túri-Nagy Saxophone Chamber Recital

13 November 2024, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Talent Obliges

Viktória Pusomi, Noémi Bakó & János Túri-Nagy Saxophone Chamber Recital Presented by Liszt Academy

Romantic Readings

Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D. 821 (‘Arpeggione’)
Singelée: Duo Concertant, Op. 55

INTERMISSION

Takashi Yoshimatsu: Fuzzy Bird Sonata
Jun Nagao: Paganini Lost

Viktória Pusomi, Noémi Bakó (saxophone), János Túri-Nagy (piano)

The saxophone is much less used in classical music in Hungary than it is in Western Europe, even though it is a versatile instrument that can be played in a wide variety of settings and in almost every musical style. In this two-part concert, students of classical saxophone from the Liszt Academy, who have achieved great success in competitions, will demonstrate the instrument’s potential, from 19th-century romantic works to pieces by contemporary Japanese composers. Schubert’s sonata was originally written for piano and a new invention, the bowed guitar, introduced in 1823. The instrument, which was particularly suited to playing progressions of thirds, double stops and arpeggios, only began to be called an arpeggione in the 1870s, just after Schubert’s work. Jean-Baptiste Singelée belonged to the generation of composers who followed Schubert. He was among the first to find the saxophone a serious instrument suitable for classical music. He encouraged his close friend Adolphe Sax to develop the four main members of the saxophone family. He then composed what is supposedly the world’s first-ever work for saxophone quartet.

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