Lajos Tihanyi's painting 'Akt studium' (Nude study) was sold as the most expensive classic work at Hungarian art auctions in 2021. The hammer price for the Tihanyi work was HUF 95 million at the winter auction of the Judit Virág Gallery. On the back of the work, which has been hidden for a hundred years, […]
The internationally expanding Virtuosos classical music television talent search began its sixth season this last November. This time, young people from the four Visegrád countries and Serbia compare their skills and knowledge. The super jury of the contest features international stars like Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo or German television personality Thomas Gottschalk. Thomas Gottschalk […]
A recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by the Budapest Strings chamber orchestra has been seen on YouTube by over 220 million times! On this occasion, the concertmaster and the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Budapest Strings Foundation talk to Diplomacy&Trade about the past and present of the orchestra as well as on […]
An eighty-page publication in Hungarian and English, richly illustrated with images, was published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian Jazz Association. ‘30 Years of Jazz’ reviews the history of jazz and the association, gives an idea of the domestic institutional system and intellectual background of the genre, introduces Hungarian performers of […]
The publication 'Images of Kőszeg KRAFT' presents the results of the last five years of the Creative City, Sustainable Region program in Hungarian and English, with plenty of photos, richly illustrated, on almost 200 pages. A harmonious balance between old and new, tradition and renewal, preserving and creating values. This is what this beautiful book […]
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that it recognizes the conductor of the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Izaki Masahiro with the 2020 Foreign Ministerial Award. A press release by the Japanese Embassy in Budapest highlights that after winning Hungarian Television's International Conducting Competition in Budapest in 1995, Izaki Masahiro achieved remarkable success both in […]
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME, directed by Lili Horvát, is the official Hungarian entry for the next Academy Awards, the National Film Institute has announced. The decision was made at the meeting of the Hungarian Oscar Selection Committee to nominate the movie, which explores the role of projections in love and about […]
The new English-language publication Review of Hungarian Photography of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and the Fotóművészet Magazin aims to make the works of photographers and photographic professionals working in Hungary known to a wider international audience. With the first issue of the Review of Hungarian Photography, the editors' goal is to make the […]
Concerto Budapest, the concert film, directed by Imre Szabó Stein and starring András Keller, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica and Concerto Budapest, won the Video: Events & Live Broadcasts category – and was awarded the Bronze Lovie Prize by an international jury – at the LOVIE AWARDS, the most significant competition for European Internet content. A […]
László Benkő, co-founder of the group Omega in 1962, died at the age of 77 after a long illness. "We are shocked to inform you that Laci Benkő, the founder of the Omega band, passed away after a long illness. Millions of fans and respecters mourn the decisive figure of Hungarian rock music both at […]
St. Martin's New Wine and Goose Festival await visitors in the Open-Air Museum (Skanzen) in Szentendre throughout the weekend, including Martin's Day folk customs, handicrafts, themed wine tasting, autumn delicacies and handicraft fairs. St Martin's Day used to be an important turning point in the folk’s calendar: it marked the finishing of the agricultural works, […]
The Association of Hungarian Nature Photographers, NaturArt has announced the winners of the most prestigious nature photography contest in Hungary and Central Europe held this year for the 28th time. In the almost 30-year history of the competition, it was this year that the most pictures were submitted: 4,114. 111 works competed in the final […]
The number of visitors at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest has decreased by 90% compared to last year, according to the Director General of the museum, László Baán. He said that there was a similar decline in all museums of international scale worldwide. Last year, a total of 11,563,000 tickets were sold for […]
A mural evoking Berlin has been painted in German-Hungarian cooperation on a firewall in downtown Budapest to mark the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Germany. The mural at Akácfa Street 27 in District 7 depicts three figures at the Berlin Wall in clothes painted with the colors of the German national flag by the […]
Since the tuba was invented, no such improvement has ever emerged as the innovation introduced by Roland Szentpáli and Zoltán Juhász that shall revolutionize the instrument. The newly developed mechanism now allows musicians to play the tuba stand-up and move freely on stage. The conversion from the traditional to the standing positioning takes only two […]
