After three years, the Strings Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music honoured the memory of Pál Lukács, violist and founder of the Hungarian higher viola education.

Quartets and trios of young talents took part in a masterclass and a public concert as part of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) international cooperation.

The presidents of the two institutions have agreed to further intensify the existing joint work with further projects and exchange programmes.

Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music is once again among the world’s top 51st–100th institutions in this year’s QS rankings by subject, along with the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and King's College London, among others.

Dr. László Vikárius, professor at the Liszt Academy and the director of the Bartók Archive of the Institute for Musicology, evokes Bartók’s collections and concerts in Carpathian Ruthenia and Ukraine on the occasion of the 141st anniversary of the artist’s birth.

Liszt Museum and Kodály Museum have become part of a 40-member European association of musicians’ and composers’ memorial museums, with the founding document of the agreement signed in France on Sunday.

In line with a well-established tradition, the leadership of the Liszt Academy laid a wreath on the tomb of Béla Bartók on March 25, and the board of trustees of the Bartók–Pásztory Prize presented this year's awards, which were bestowed on opera singer Péter Fried and composer-organist András Gábor Virágh.