The teaching staff of the Liszt Academy have lost yet another legendary personality: exceptional tenor and singing teacher Boldizsár Keönch has died at the age of 77.

We are pleased to announce the joint symposium of the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy and ESCOM (European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music), an interdisciplinary event to be held in Budapest, in the Art Nouveau palace of the Liszt Academy between 3 and 6 March 2016.

Márta Gulyás holds a master class and the two chamber groups of the Liszt Academy perform at the Hungarian Academy in Rome on Friday 19 February.

The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music organized the programme Reconnections for the fourth occasion.

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music has joined the Institute of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to help more Americans to gain international experience through study abroad programs. This is one of more than 600 new commitments announced by IIE.

The four members of the quartet simultaneously hold 2-hour sessions for each participant. Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer and Paul Watkins hold chamber music sessions, and Lawrence Dutton holds viola sessions.