July 15-22 2022.
Festival Academy Budapest 2022

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July 7-16 2022.
Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition

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Welcome

Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas

The Artistic Directors of Festival Academy Budapest on this summer’s festival programme, concept, the Hubay Competition and the importance of family.

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Artistic directors

Katalin Kokas & Barnabás Kelemen

A violinist-couple honored with a bunch of awards, prizes and competition triumphs. Parents of four kids and the Festival Academy Budapest. Their wild musicality makes every music they touch sublime.

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Evening Concerts 2022

Koncert No. 1

July 15, 2022 19:30Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Research has it that the climax of Béla Bartók's oeuvre is his Sonata for Two (…)

Concert No. 2

July 16, 2022 19:30Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
The relationship between music and literature has been an essential focus of the programmes of (…)

Concert No. 3

July 17, 2022 18:30House of Music Hungary, Concert Hall
For the festival, the Endor Trio has compiled a programme ranging over centuries, focussing on (…)

Concert No. 4

July 18, 2022 19:30Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Ilona Fehér, the legendary violin teacher after whom one of FAB's violin competitions is named, (…)

Concert No. 5

July 19, 2022 19:30Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Before the intermission, we can hear three of Bach's violin concertos played by Barnabás Kelemen, (…)

Concert No. 6

July 21, 2022 19:00Margaret Island, Mineral Water Bottling Plant
Similarly to several other important composers, such as Bach, Schumann or Debussy, Bartók also found (…)

Concert No. 7

July 21, 2022 21:00Margaret Island, Dominican Convent
There is hardly a more authentic venue for performing Arnold Schönberg's early, hyper-Romantic string sextet (…)

Concert No. 8

July 22, 2022 16:00Buda Castle, Royal Riding Hall

Concert No. 9

July 22, 2022 18:00Carmelite Monastery of Buda
At the eighth concert of Festival Academy Budapest, the audience can relish the string transcription (…)

Concert No. 10

July 23, 2022 19:30BMC Concert Hall
Arnold Schönberg’s String Quartet No. 2 challenges conventions not only because the composer channelled his (…)

Concert No. 11

July 24, 2022 18:00Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
As Brahms commented on his curiously unique String Quintet in F major in one of (…)

Programme 2022

July 15, 2022 (Friday)
19:30 Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Koncert No. 1
July 16, 2022 (Saturday)
10:00 BMC Music Library
Workshop with György Pauk violin professor
14:00 BMC Concert Hall
IV Ilona Fehér Intenational Violin Competition Award Ceremony
17:00 BMC Concert Hall
IV Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition Gala Concert
19:30 Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Concert No. 2
July 17, 2022 (Sunday)
18:30 House of Music Hungary, Concert Hall
Concert No. 3
July 18, 2022 (Monday)
19:30 Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Concert No. 4
July 19, 2022 (Tuesday)
19:30 Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Concert No. 5
July 21, 2022 (Thursday)
19:00 Margaret Island, Mineral Water Bottling Plant
Concert No. 6
21:00 Margaret Island, Dominican Convent
Concert No. 7
July 22, 2022 (Friday)
11:00 Várkert Bazár
Breakfast at Várkert Bazár
12:00 - 14:00 Buda Castle
Concerts with Museum tours
13:00 Museum of Music History
Concert with the Chaos Quartet and the Korossy Kvartett
16:00 Buda Castle, Royal Riding Hall
Concert No. 8
18:00 Carmelite Monastery of Buda
Concert No. 9
July 23, 2022 (Saturday)
19:30 BMC Concert Hall
Concert No. 10
July 24, 2022 (Sunday)
18:00 Liszt Academy, Grand Hall
Concert No. 11
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Venues 2022

Liszt Academy

Budapest Music Center

House of Music Hungary

Crystal Scene

Dominican convent

Karmelita event hall

Széchenyi Thermal Bath

Art+ Cinema

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