Piano Competition

The Liszt Academy launched the Bartók World Competition & Festival in Protected content the 135th birth anniversary of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.
The competition is built in a six-year cycle drawing the attention to the best instrumentalists of the new musician generation to the works of Bartók and inspiring young composers to create new works in the spirit of Bartók.
Protected content for the pianists. 31 candidates will compete within the first week of September : six Hungarians, several Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, as well as American, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian citizens.
Open to the public: the preliminaries and semi-finals are free to attend, whereas tickets can be purchased for solo finals as well as the grand final.
The compulsory repertoire will focus on Bartók's most important works for piano, which will be included in all rounds, but the competitors will also have to demonstrate their skills by playing works by Liszt, Kodály, Dohnányi, Scarlatti, Ravel, Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev and Stravinsky and by the prize-winners of the Bartók's composition competition as well.
In the final, the contestants will have the choice between Bartók's Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, Liszt's Dance of Death and Piano Concerto in E-flat Major.
Let’s discover and support these talented young pianists!

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