On the 100th anniversary of the first edition, a facsimile edition and a new edition with Hungarian and English texts have been published simultaneously.

Piano pieces by Liszt and Bartók, instrumented for big orchestra by Zoltán Kocsis, were published by UMP Editio Musica Budapest.

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) today announced that Natasha Baldwin has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Classics and Screen. Based in London, she will report to Jody Gerson, UMPG Chairman and CEO, and Marc Cimino, UMPG Chief Operating Officer.

Máté Balogh will be the Composer-in-Residence of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2021/2022 season: his first premiere, Raabertüre, will take place on September 24.

For Musikfest Berlin, Pierre-Laurent Aimard has compiled a series of more than thirty Kurtág miniatures for piano, including six previously unveiled compositions to be premiered on September 11 at the Chamber Hall of Philharmonie.

Máté Bella's choral piece Eternal Music was premiered in July 2021 during the concert tour of the Hungarian National Youth Choir.

Tenth volume of Kurtág's piano series Games and Two Musorgsky Transcriptions for piano duet have been freshly published.

Since 2010, renowned Noh-singer, Ryoko Aoki, has organized Noh × Contemporary Music to commission international composers to write new pieces for Noh voice. In this year’s project, Máté Balogh’s composition, Matsuo Basho’s Song was among the commissioned works that were premiered on 14 May 2021 in Tokyo.

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In 2017, Máté Bella composed his work Hesperus for viola and ensemble. The work was commissioned by the Ensemble Intercontemporaine and premiered on 16 February 2019 on French Radio. On May 18, Péter Bársony will be the soloist of the Hungarian premiere at the Budapest Music Center, the UMZE ensemble will be conducted by Gregory Vajda. We asked the composer on the occasion of this coming performance.

What kind of compositional ideas have you realized in Hesperus?

This piece is the third one in a series: First, Chuang Tzu’s Dream was written for cello and ensemble, then came Trance for violin and ensemble, and finally, Hesperus for viola and ensemble joined them.