The path of a talented artist is often shaped by fortune and momentous encounters, but it also depends on an education system that must recognize and develop especially gifted students. We interviewed the associate professor and head of the Violin Sub-Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Vilmos Szabadi, on these two basic components of a music career.

We spoke with Salamon Kamp, conductor and member of the Doctoral Council of the university, as well as guitarist József Eötvös, head of the Strings Department, about PhD courses at the Liszt Academy, the interaction between performance art and culture, the hierarchy of instruments, and Bach’s timelessness.

Violinist, countertenor, conductor. Dmitry Sinkovsky is one of the most exciting musicians of our day. Although most at home in the Baroque, he actually plays the entire Classical-Romantic repertoire. Irrespective of period or genre, he performs with astonishing vigour and affirmation of life flowing from his music-making. The audience of the Liszt Academy had the chance to experience for themselves the magic of this artist when he accompanied Julia Leznyeva at the head of his ensemble, La Voce Strumentale, last year. This time we can enjoy him as partner of Aura Musicale, led by Balázs Máté.