Máté Balogh visited the city in Alabama back in 2019 for the premiere of his march "Alabama March," composed for the state's 200th anniversary. In Huntsville Suite, he transformed his experiences from that time into an acoustic form, resembling a 'musical travel diary.'

For György Kurtág's 99th birthday, a CD has been released featuring his solo and piano accompaniment works for baritone voice, alongside songs by Schubert and Brahms. The composer wrote these introductory lines in the booklet of the recordings:
’Benjamin Appl came to the Budapest Music Centre for the first time in 2018, when we worked together on my Hölderlin-Gesänge.'

He began his career as one of the most important creators of the experimental art movement in Hungary. The majority of his works were written for classical instruments and ensembles, but some feature special sound sources such as a prepared piano, clay bells or even steam engines.

“Faust” is not only a very famous drama from the very famous German writer Wolfgang Goethe: DER FAUST is also the title of the most important award in German theatre. Awarded by the Deutscher Bühnenverein, alongside the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste and the Kulturstiftung der Länder, DER FAUST honours those extraordinary artistic achievements that reflect the diversity of the theatrical landscape in Germany. The 2024 prize for the “Best Music Theatre Production” goes to Ingo Kerkhof for the German premiere of György Kurtág’s Fin de partie in March at the Oper Dortmund.

More than six years of publishing work have concluded with the publication of the male choir volume, completing the three-volume edition of Kodály's choral works.
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882–1967) created a significant oeuvre equally as a composer, pedagogue, and ethnomusicologist; he was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Hungarian music. With his over 130 works for unaccompanied choir he laid the foundation of modern Hungarian choral literature.

György Kurtág's opera based on Samuel Beckett's text has had 32 stage and concert performances in 8 countries so far. The work arrived at another venue on its international journey: in October, it will be performed five times on the stage of the Vienna State Opera House.

The award ceremony took place on 3 September in Budapest at the Budapest Music Center, where György Kurtág has lived and worked since 2015. The Board of Trustees of the Wolf Foundation was represented by Amnon Rechner, and Yacov Hadas-Handelsman, Ambassador of the State of Israel in Budapest and Ferenc Hudecz, Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were present at the ceremony. Upon receiving the award, the 98-year-old composer was moved to thank his late wife, Márta Kurtág (1927-2019), who was his companion for 73 years, and his closest friend and colleague, András Wilheim musicologist (1949-2022), who took care of his works for more than four decades at UMP Editio Musica Budapest.

’We live in an age full of impulses. We encounter countless stimuli and impacts every day. We immerse ourselves in a book, we receive an email in the meanwhile, read it on our phone, and, since we are at it already, we also check the news. Our sense of time has also changed.’ (Balázs Kecskés D.)

 After the 24 character pieces of the first volume of the Wolf-Temperiertes Klavier (2018) and the 24 Jazz-Preludes of the second volume (2022), Péter Wolf continued the series with a new volume of 23 pieces that he composed for the youngest pianists.

We salute Zsolt Serei on his 70th birthday with the recording of Serenade für Horn and Orchestra.  Componensemble is conducted by the composer. (BMC Records 073)  More about the work here.