music - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com Monthly in print | Daily on the web Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:57:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dteurope.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-dt_favicon-32x32.png music - Diplomacy & Trade https://dteurope.com 32 32 Songs for all Kinds of Feelings and Sentiments https://dteurope.com/culture/songs-for-all-kinds-of-feelings-and-sentiments/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:37:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=75810 English singer and songwriter Calum Scott is to perform this October in Budapest, returning to the Hungarian capital with a solo concert after stealing the hearts of the Hungarian audience by opening Ed Sheeran's concert last year. He tells Diplomacy&Trade how he tries to help sensitive people with his songs while remaining an everyday person […]

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]]> Entry to the ‘Big Stage’ https://dteurope.com/news/entry-to-the-big-stage/ Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:06:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=56433 Six hours of free mega-concerts with local stars, emerging talents and music together – that's what those interested can expect at downtown Szabadság Square in Budapest on October 8. The Yettel Stage platform has brought together established musicians with bands at the beginning of their careers to give a boost to newcomers, with the support […]

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]]> Budapest Festival Orchestra Talent Scout Program https://dteurope.com/culture/budapest-festival-orchestra-talent-scout-program/ Wed, 25 May 2022 13:40:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=51137 The Budapest Festival Orchestra, rated among the world's top ten classical music ensembles, is launching a program to find and develop young musical talent. The complex program, which is already keeping tabs on the development of 11 young talents, is supported by the AutoWallis Group, which itself relies on the value-added work of talented young […]

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]]> From Indonesia All the Way to Hungary https://dteurope.com/witty-leaks/from-indonesia-all-the-way-to-hungary/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:03:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=49616 In Diplomacy & Trade’s Witty Leaks series, diplomats give their personal account of the experiences of their 'excursions' to Hungarian culture, art, gastronomy and landscape. This time, it is about how musical collaboration becomes a tool of cultural promotion. It’s still a very fresh memory how I came to visit Hungary for the first time, […]

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]]> Canadian Wins Ferenc Liszt International Piano Contest https://dteurope.com/culture/canadian-wins-ferenc-liszt-international-piano-contest/ Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:54:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=43563 Kevin Chen of Canada won the Grand Prize of the Liszt Ferenc International Piano Competition, followed by Giovanni Bertolazzi of Italy and Gergely Kovács of Hungary. The official competition program of the long-established Ferenc Liszt International Piano Competition at the Liszt Academy of Music came to an end with the final on Saturday. Of the […]

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]]> Hungarian Innovation to Support Tuba Soloists https://dteurope.com/culture/hungarian-innovation-to-support-tuba-soloists/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:20:46 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=26158 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 […]

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]]> Street Music Contest in Eger https://dteurope.com/culture/street-music-contest-in-eger/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 17:19:00 +0000 https://dteurope.com/?p=25274 Since 2015, every year young entrepreneurs of Eger, NE Hungary, organize a contest for musicians with a grand prize of EUR 3,000. During the five days of the festival, more than 150 musicians play in 15 locations of the historical downtown to win the prize.  This year's event was postponed from the original summer date […]

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]]> Hungarian conductor receives Japanese recognition https://dteurope.com/news/hungarian-conductor-receives-japanese-recognition/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/hungarian-conductor-receives-japanese-recognition/ The Japanese Ambassador to Hungary, Kuni Sato handed over Japan's state award, the Order of Gold and Silver Rays of the Rising Sun to Kossuth Prize winner Hungarian conductor Dénes Szabó in the Kodály Zoltán Primary School in Nyíregyháza.

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]]> Ennio Morricone given Hungarian state recognition https://dteurope.com/culture/ennio-morricone-given-hungarian-state-recognition/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/ennio-morricone-given-hungarian-state-recognition/ World renowned Italian movie theme composer Ennio Morricone received a Hungarian state recognition, the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in Budapest this Wednesday for popularizing Hungarian music.

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]]> Bartók World Competition and Festival https://dteurope.com/culture/bartok-world-competition-and-festival/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/bartok-world-competition-and-festival/ Seven violinists, including two Hungarians, have passed to the September 14 final of the Bartók World Competition and Festival in Budapest held on the occasion of the 135th birth anniversary of the world famous Hungarian composer, Béla Bartók.

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]]> Elvis Presley remembered in Budapest https://dteurope.com/culture/elvis-presley-remembered-in-budapest/ Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/elvis-presley-remembered-in-budapest/ Hungarian fans of Elvis Presley held a candle-lit commemoration event in Budapest's Elvis Presley Park on the 40th anniversary of the death of the legendary American singer. One of the performers was the Hungarian Elvis Tribute Band.

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]]> Famed Hungarian jazz musician passes away https://dteurope.com/culture/famed-hungarian-jazz-musician-passes-away/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/famed-hungarian-jazz-musician-passes-away/ Hungarian jazz musician Sándor Benkó, the founder and leader of the Benkó Dixieland Band passed away at the age of 75 in Budapest. An electric engineer by profession, 'Mr. Dixie Teacher', also taught at the Budapest Technical University for decades.

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]]> Sziget Festival, as international as possible https://dteurope.com/culture/sziget-festival-as-international-as-possible/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/sziget-festival-as-international-as-possible/ This year 'Szitizens' can expect great music from all over the globe, during the Sziget festival on August 10-17. The program at the Island of Freedom venue will offer a wide range of music.

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]]> Hungary selects entry for Eurovision song contest https://dteurope.com/culture/hungary-selects-entry-for-eurovision-song-contest/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/hungary-selects-entry-for-eurovision-song-contest/ András Kállay-Saunders has been selected by Hungarian TV viewers to represent Hungary at the 2014 Eurovision song contest in the Danish capital, Copenhagen this May. His song ’Running’ received the most televotes in the national contest called ’A Dal’ (’The Song’).

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]]> Rhoda Scott concert in Budapest https://dteurope.com/culture/rhoda-scott-concert-in-budapest/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:00:00 +0000 https://dt.adcodedesign.com/rhoda-scott-concert-in-budapest/ The world's best-known female organ player Rhoda Scott gave a concert this past Sunday in the Budapest Marriott Hotel, performing with fellow American Sylvia Howard, Hungary's Roby Lakatos and the Modern Art Orchestra.

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