On Wednesday, the composer, Zsófia Tallér and the pianist, Dénes Várjon were awarded the Bartók-Pásztory prize at the Liszt Academy. Following the reception of the award, the new facsimile edition of the Cantata Profana was also presented.

The Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy will host a very special event on 3 March: an orchestra of young musicians will perform an extraordinary programme that the Hungarian audience may rarely hear.

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music will be recognised as one of the European Heritage Label sites in 2016 – was announced by Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport at the press conference of the Network of European Heritage Label Sites.

The highpoint of the Kurtág 90 festival (14-21 February) organized by BMC was the birthday concert in the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, following which the 90-year-old composer was awarded an honorary professorial degree by President of the Academy Dr. Andrea Vigh.

Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Mariann Marczi (piano), Eszter Karasszon (cello) and Dr. Csaba Kutnyánszky vice rector represented Liszt Academy at the New York event.