Joint concert by the Liszt Academy and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“Politics is a tough world, whereas culture and the arts are able to create genuine bridges between nations,” stated Ilan Mor, Israeli ambassador to Budapest, in February 2013. That was when the one-week university chamber music workshop, which was initiated by the diplomat, was launched in Jerusalem. The music academies of two great cities delegated their world-famous teachers to the first event in Jerusalem: from Budapest, András Keller (violin) and Csaba Onczay (cello); from Jerusalem, Zvi Carmeli (conductor), Lihai Ben Dayan (violin) and David Sella (cello), together with outstanding students. The workshop concluded with a concert in the Jerusalem Music Centre. In February 2014 Budapest hosts the continuation of this hugely successful workshop, the closing concert of which will be staged in the Solti Hall. The programme starts with a Brahms work and concludes with a Mozart piece, between which there will be works by three major Hungarian composers, and a composition by Mark Kopytman (1929–2011), former rector of the Academy of Music in Jerusalem.