Organisers of the Bartók World Competition welcome and agree with the Statement of the WFIMC regarding Russian and Belarussian Candidates

The Bartók World Competition continues this year with the contest of composers. This time the Liszt Academy has called for compositions written for violin and piano in 6-7 minutes length.

The members of the string quartets that won the top three prizes - including the Hungarian musicians of the Vienna-based Chaos String Quartet - unanimously praised the professional organization of the competition, and all of them feel that Bartók's music has opened up new vistas for them.

The Quartet Integra was awarded the first prize totalling 12,000 euros at Sunday’s awards ceremony and gala evening of the 2021 Bartók World Competition for string quartets.

The international jury judged that the string quartets competing in Thursday’s semi-finals were so excellent that they allowed more formations than initially planned to take part in Saturday’s final.

The international jury on Wednesday night selected seven quartets, instead of the initially planned six, that will advance to the semi-finals.

The Liszt Academy’s 2021 Bartók World Competition kicked off Monday afternoon with determining the order of performance of participating quartets.

The 2021 Bartók World Competition for String Quartets will commence with a ceremonial drawing of lots at 5pm on 25 October. In keeping with the tradition of the Liszt Academy’s international competitions, the first ensemble to perform in the preliminaries, which begin on 26 October, will be announced then.

15 string quartets made it to the preliminary of Bartók World Competition in October 2021

33 ensembles submitted their entry online for Bartók World Competition for string quartets this year

Since the pandemic has made it difficult to prepare for the competition, we extend the deadline to 15 June 2021.

On the 140th anniversary of the birth of Béla Bartók, a commemoration of the milestone anniversaries of a career, of understanding, of love: László Vikárius, professor at the Liszt Academy of Music and head of the Bartók Archives of the Institute for Musicology, evokes our great predecessor.

Violinist Ami Oike, who has won a competition in Japan with Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, accepted an invitation from the organisers of the Bartók World Competition just a few days ago to join the jury for the 2021 String Quartet Competition.

Okamoto Shinsuke in first place, Korean competitors Noh Seung Ju and Kim Jonghoon in second and third place.

Prize winning works will be played by the most outstanding young Hungarian string quartets.

It is now on the website of bartokworldcompetition.hu