Márta Sebestyén - From Liszt Academy to Liszt Academy A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Márta Sebestyén is a familiar name to the general public but few know just how strong her ties are to the Liszt Academy. Kodály once said that music education has to begin nine months before the birth, and if there is an artist in which this is certainly true it is Márta Sebestyén: she attended the Liszt Academy even as an embryo, she several times waited in the cloakroom as a tiny baby for her conductor father to finish conducting in the Grand Hall, and she has many memories of the building and institution both as a young girl and later in life. Thus her concert in the Grand Hall is both a return and a summation inasmuch as the evening focuses on the three musical cultures that have been determining in her life: folk music, early music and chorus. On the one hand folk music leads back into the past of music, and on the other, it moves towards the outstanding 20th century Hungarian choral repertoire, while in itself it represents the highest form of art. In this endeavour Márta Sebestyén is assisted by the Hunyadi Old Students’ Chorus conducted by her mother, the Saint Ephraim Male Choir conducted by Tamás Bubnó, and the cream of classical and folk music performers.