With a total prize fund of more than 51,000 euros (20 million forints), the competition for pianists will open on 3 March, and the repertoire will naturally focus on Bartók's piano works.

Thanks to the generous support of Japanese companies in Hungary, the scholarship is awarded to young, talented Japanese students of the Liszt Academy.

The new special issue of Studia Musicologica (the international journal of musicology of

the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) is dedicated to the papers of the conference "Rethinking Central European Music," held at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music on September 8-9, 2023.

Tolgahan Çoğulu is an active musician and promoter of microtonal music with the instrument developed by him, and professor at the state conservatory in Istanbul.

The application system is now open for applicants wishing to pursue studies at the Liszt Academy with the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship in the academic year 2025/2026.

Every year, the Liszt Academy organises a workshop and a concluding concert as part of an Erasmus programme, this time the Hungarian and foreign students learned from and performed with violinist Péter Kováts as a string orchestra.

Xavier Torres gave lessons to students studying chamber music at the Academy of Music on October 10 and 11.

The building of the Liszt Academy’s Kecskemét institution was modernized and outfitted with additional classrooms and state-of-the-art educational technology during an extensive, multi-year reconstruction.