Liszt Academy to Strengthen Relationships with Portugal
Guest performances and scholarship programs may reinforce the Portuguese-Hungarian relationships in music – as it was discussed in Lisbon between Csaba Kutnyánszky, Vice President of Education at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and the directors of music institutions in Portugal.
The negotiations have brought us closer to our goal of introducing young artists and compositions from Hungary to concert and opera audiences around Portugal as well as providing scholarships for Portuguese music students so that they can spend a few semesters studying at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, said musicologist László Gombos, research fellow at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the delegation to MTI on his return to Hungary on 11 May.
Besides the negotiations, presentations and concerts to promote the Liszt Academy and Hungarian musical culture were also held during the three-day meeting: on Friday László Gombos lectured on Jenő Hubay, the founder of the world famous Hungarian violin school, while on Saturday Csaba Kutnyánszky gave a presentation on the Liszt Academy at the Embassy of Hungary in Lisbon. The lectures were followed by a recital given by young Hungarian musicians including Mónika Ruth Vida (piano), Rebeka Csuhaj-Barna (flute) and Márton Vörösváry (violin, piano). On Sunday another concert was held at the Assembly Hall of the Marriott Hotel with a program similar to the previous one, featuring works by Ferenc Liszt, Jenő Hubay, Ernő Dohnányi, Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner and Ferenc Farkas, along with a Bach and a Beethoven movement.
The guests of the three events included the members of the recently established Portuguese-Hungarian Cooperation Association with President Miguel de Pape, László Hubay Cebrian, the grandson of Jenő Hubay, as well as some prominent representatives of the cultural and social life of Portugal. On Saturday László Kövér, President of the Hungarian Parliament, also made his appearance among the guests at the embassy, as it has been stated by László Gombos.
As part of the events held at the Embassy of Hungary in Lisbon, they also inaugurated a grand piano that had been lent to the institution by the Liszt Academy for a long term. The new piano allows for even more opportunities for Ambassador Klára Breuer to open the doors of the Embassy to audiences interested in Hungarian culture. The “musical afternoons” that she plans to organize mark the revival of a tradition which had been established in Hungary by Ferenc Liszt, the founder of the Liszt Academy in the 19th century and continued by Jenő Hubay, the successor of Liszt as the director of the institution, the musicologist explained.
Source: MTI