Spring Doctoral Concerts in the Liszt Academy

During academic year 2013/14 the students of the Doctoral School jointly analysed works in the Wohltemperiertes Klavier series. The concerts presenting all 48 preludes and fugues are directed by pianist Péter Nagy, professor of the Doctoral School of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as host and performer. The works are performed in four parts: in the Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall on 29 April, in classroom No. X on 4 May, in the Bach room of the Old Academy of Music on 18 May and returning to the Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall on 27 May. Music historian Gergely Fazekas assists the audience in understanding the works.

Péter Nagy (photo: Kata Schiller)

Students of the Doctoral School give a further two concerts in spring 2014: on 3 May, at a concert (‘German and Latin Europe') marking the 10th anniversary of Hungary's accession to the European Union, chorus director Gáspár Krasznai leads postgraduates in the performance of choral works by European composers such as Thomas Morley, Francisco Guererro, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi and Edvard Grieg.

Árpád Solti, András Gábor Virágh and Péter Tornyai

The closing performance of the Spring Doctoral Concerts (17 May) is the opportunity to hear students of the doctoral school of composition of the Liszt Academy: Péter Tornyai, Árpád Solti and András Gábor Virág. The concert presents a double-sided programme: each young composer links his own piece with that of a predecessor. In a talk given before the performance of the paired works we can learn how the art of J. S. Bach, Miklós Maros, Clair Omar Musser and Paul Hindemith tie in with the students' own compositional concepts.

Tickets (free of charge) for performances of the Doctoral Concerts series can be requested from the ticket desk at the Liszt Academy.