We have been waiting and planning the renovation of the wonderful building of the Music Academy for long years. Our dream is finally coming true 102 years after the opening of the Palace of Music. This wonder of art-nouveau architecture will regain its original form by 2011 while being enriched with the most modern equipments and accessories of teaching and performing practice and so becoming one of the most modern music academies of the age - just like it was at the time of its opening in 1907.
The Music Academy closes its gates for two years, but before the reconstruction workers take over the place of former and present students, teachers, friends and dear acquaintances bid their beloved building farewell with one week of festivities. The festival, which runs from the 3rd until the 9th of November, will host chamber concerts of the Liszt Academy's professors in the evenings. There will be two afternoon concerts of the Symphony Orchestra of the Liszt Academy, and the first weekend of the month will be that of the students as each department says goodbye in classrooms, hidden corners and shaded foyers of the building. Guided tours introduce the secrets of the house, while the plans of the future Liszt Academy will be shown at an exhibition. On Sunday afternoon of the 8th November a unique and unprecedented event will take place within these old walls when the ensembles of the Liszt Academy join the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir to perform all the nine symphonies of Beethoven between 4 pm and 11 pm under the direction of Zoltán Kocsis.
November 3, 2009, 6 pm. - 1st floor foyer: Opening Ceremony of two exhibitions
The reviving Music Palace - architectural and interior designs of the future Academy buildings
Moments and conditions at the Music Academy - Kata Schiller's photo exhibition
November 3, 2009, 7:30 pm: From Bartók to Bartók – Zoltán Kocsis and Barnabás Kelemen
November 4, 2009, 7:30 pm: Variations on Two Pianists and a Singer – Chamber recital of the singer Éva Bátori and the pianists Dénes Várjon and Izabella Simon - CANCELLED due to illness
November 5, 2009, 7:30 pm: In the footsteps of Annie Fischer and György Cziffra - Piano parade by Kálmán Dráfi, his colleagues, pupils and former teachers. Guests: Zoltán Kocsis and Tamás Vásáry.
November 6, 2009, 3:30 pm: Symphonic Concert – The Symphony Orchestra of the Liszt Academy
November 6, 2009, 7:30 pm: Silent Farewell – Piano duet concert by Dezső Ránki and Edit Klukon - CANCELLED due to illness
November 6, 2009, 10 pm: Night Jazz – concert of the Liszt Academy’s Jazz Department
November 7, 2009, 3:30 pm: Symphonic concert – The Symphony Orchestra of the Liszt Academy
November 7, 2009, 7:30 pm: Tradition and Progression – concert of Péter Nagy
November 7, 2009, 10 pm: Organ Music at Night – Farewell to the organ of the Liszt Academy by the Organ Department
November 8, 2009, 4:00 - 10.30 pm: Beethoven Non-Stop – Complete symphonies of Beethoven conducted by Zoltán Kocsis
November 9, 2009, 7:30 pm: Two Hundred Years Ago... – Chamber recital of Balázs Szokolay and his friends
