Application is open for composers
18 January 2024
The application form has been published on the website, which means that young composers can apply for the composition category of the Bartók World Competition 2024 from now on.
18 January 2024
The application form has been published on the website, which means that young composers can apply for the composition category of the Bartók World Competition 2024 from now on.
7 December 2023
Composer-conductor Thomas Adès will chair the International Jury for the 2024 Composers’ Competition, an event with a total prize fund of €10,000 and organised by the Liszt Academy, which expects to receive applications from 18 January.
17 October 2023
Video interview with Maya Alexandra Kasprzak, the third prize winner German- Polish-Japanese violinist, who talks about her connection to Bartók’s music.
6 October 2023
Conductor Péter Halász, first conductor (Kapellmeister) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and principal guest conductor at the Hungarian State Opera, is a regular guest at many domestic and foreign institutions. The artist was a member of the jury at the Bartók World Competition for the first time this year, which helped him gain extremely important impressions in several ways.
6 October 2023
Video interview with the winner of the 2023 Bartók World Competition, Moldavian violinist Lilia Pocitari, who talks about her experience and her performances at the competition and her plans for the near future.
2 October 2023
At the Bartók World Competition, the jury was looking for what a young artist could do to capture our hearts, says world-renowned violinist-conductor András Keller, with whom we talked about this year's event, the problems and challenges of a competition, and more.
27 September 2023
Daniel Phillips, Jury President of the 2023 Bartók World Competition, on the role of the competitions, the quality of this year's semi-finalists and the event, and the difficulties of the panel's work.
13 September 2023
Lilia Pocitari was awarded the first prize of 22,000 euros at the gala event of the Liszt Academy’s 2023 World Bartók Competition on Sunday.
7 September 2023
The following contestants made it to the finals, in order of performance:
5 September 2023
The following contestants made it to the semi-finals, in order of performance:
4 September 2023
After the order of appearance for the entrants was determined, the 2023 Bartók World Competition for Violinists at the Liszt Academy of Music, with a total prize fund of 46,000 euros, began on 3 September with the preliminaries and will end on 10 September with the award ceremony and gala, bringing together 32 young talents from 16 countries.
22 June 2023
The pre-selection jury of this year's Bartók World Competition for violinists–Kristóf Baráti, Géza Kapás and Péter Kováts–decided to let 41 competitors take part in the live rounds.
5 June 2023
Based on video recordings submitted by each applicant, the pre-selection jury – consisting of renowned professors of Liszt Academy –, will select those who will advance to the live rounds.
2 May 2023
We have partly modified the repertoire and simplified the application process, and also extended the deadline until 31 May.
22 February 2023
The application form has been published, which means that young violinists can apply for Bartók World Competition 2023 from now on.
3 February 2023
The Liszt Academy in Budapest, as the organizer, has announced the Bartók World Competition – Violin 2023 with a total prize of 44,000 euros. The jury will again consist of world-renowned musicians.
26 November 2022
The 24-year-old Veljko Nenadić won first prize at the award ceremony of the 2022 competition for composers, and his work will be on the repertoire of next year's round for violinists.
2 November 2022
With Barnabás Kelemen, Ágnes Langer and József Balog, the Liszt Academy will host a celebration of the world's young composers on 26 November 2022 at 19:00 in the Solti Hall.