The young piano professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music won two special awards along with the Grand Prize and the First Prize.

The renowned composer and professor emeritus of Liszt Academy passed away last Sunday in his Sopron home.

Liszt Academy's first international contest is open to singers from all nationalities aged 18-32/35 years. Application deadline: 15 March 2014.

Founder and director of the Kodály Musical Training Institute and the Kodály Center of America died peacefully on November 11, 2013 at the Briarwood Health Care facility in Needham, Massachusetts.

Dr. Andrea Vigh, harpist, university professor and former vice president of the Liszt Academy, became president of the Liszt Academy of Music on November 1, 2013.