As of Tuesday evening, also the music loving audience can pay their last respects at the memorial site next to the Liszt Ferenc Square entrance of the Main Building of the Liszt Academy.

On behalf of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Dr. Andrea Vigh, the president of the Liszt Academy bade farewell to Zoltán Kocsis, who, as an artist, was born at the Liszt Academy and remained the academy’s own son right until his death.

Channel M5 of MTVA, the umbrella organisation for the Hungarian public service media, will be airing both the final and the documentary on the II Éva Marton International Singing Competition on 26 October.

The king of tango, Astor Piazzolla and his work are in the centre of the concerts and masterclasses of the Budapest International Guitar Festival taking place between 4-6 November, 2016.

Within the framework of an international strategic cooperation programme, with the Liszt Academy as the lead organisation, partner institutions from Budapest, the Netherlands and Scotland will collaborate to carry out methodological improvements in music education based on the principles of the Kodály method.