Budapest - Bartók World Competition

The pluridisciplinary competition founded by the Liszt Academy Budapest in 2017 covers the most important fields of Béla Bartók’s oeuvre, which is piano, violin and string quartets. The competition is held in six-year cycles: first, in 2017, it was for violinists, the pianists followed two years later, the year 2021 was devoted to string quartets. Composers compete in the intervening even years by submitting works intended for the next year’s instrumental round. In 2023 the cycle started again with violin, and in 2025 it is the pianists’ turn.