Kodály Intézet

31/05/2026

🎼 Short courses this summer at the Kodály Institute 🎶

Can’t commit to a full academic year in Kecskemét? Have a special two-week intensive experience. ✨
Join us for the 35th International Summer Seminar and immerse yourself in the Kodály based music education.
What makes this year extra special?
👉 A master conducting course led by the legendary Professor Péter Erdei.
📅 Dates: July 20–31
📍 Location: Kecskemét, the city of Kodály.

We can't wait to welcome you! 🇭🇺🎵
Don't miss this milestone anniversary edition. 👇

30/05/2026

Closing the Academic Year 🎶

As the 2025-2026 academic year wraps up in Kecskemét, our historic halls are filled with heartfelt reflection.

When you arrived months ago from every corner of the globe, you brought with you unique backgrounds, cultures, and languages. Yet, whenever you entered the classrooms and rehearsal spaces, music served as the shared, universal language. You poured relentless hours into mastering complex solfège, refining your conducting, and studying pedagogy, as well as developing your vocal and piano skills.

This time of year brings many different paths together:
• To those moving on: Thank you for being a part of our musical community. We wish you every success in your future endeavors as you step into your next chapter.
• To those returning: Have a restful summer break—we eagerly await your return to the classrooms!
• To those currently taking final exams or entrance exams for our other study programmes: Keep up the hard work and best of luck! We are cheering you on.

No matter where your musical journey takes you next, remember that Kecskemét will always be your second home.
Safe travels, good luck, and never stop making music! 🎶🌍🎵

29/05/2026

Highlights from the final days of the academic year: conducting exam and chamber music concert by Boldizsár Kiss’s students.

28/05/2026

The Liszt Academy is Working on a Joint Educational Programme with Three European Partners!
This is our future - as it was in the past: international cooperations and common passes through music.

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Közös oktatási programon dolgozik három európai partnerével a Zeneakadémia!

Nemzetközi minikonferenciát rendezett a Zeneakadémia, amelyen a Bázeli Zeneakadémia (FHNW), a milánói és a valenciai konzervatóriumok küldöttsége vett részt, hogy tárgyaljanak az előkészítés alatt álló közös mesterképzésről.

A négy egyetem munkatársai e programról egyeztettek Budapesten május 14-15-én. A cél az, hogy a pályázat végére a partnerek összeállítsák a közös mesterképzési program akkreditálásához és jövőbeni elindításához szükséges anyagokat. A konzorcium az Erasmus Mundus Design Measure pályázaton 60 000 eurót nyert el e célra, amit az előkészítések során felmerülő költségek fedezetére fordíthatnak.

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The Liszt Academy is Working on a Joint Educational Programme with Three European Partners!

The Liszt Academy hosted an international mini-conference attended by delegations from the Academy of Music Basel (FHNW), as well as the conservatories of Milan and Valencia, to discuss the development of a joint master's programme currently under preparation.

Representatives of the four institutions met in Budapest on May 14–15 to discuss the programme. The goal is for the partners to compile all the necessary materials required for the accreditation and future launch of the joint master’s programme by the end of the project period.

The consortium was awarded €60,000 through the Erasmus Mundus Design Measures programme to support this initiative and cover costs arising during the preparation phase.

27/05/2026

A memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of Melinda Kistétényi. The Liszt Academy's legendary teacher’s legacy has been entrusted to the Kodály Institute. We will preserve her memory.

26/05/2026

A nice memory from last summer: International Kodály Seminar and Symposium at the Kodály Institute in 2025, in cooperation with the International Kodály Society. A report made by Fundacja Chórtownia (Poland). Thanks for sending, dear Justyna Dziuma.

25/05/2026

Congratulation to our Faculty member Nóra Keresztes and her choir to their succesful participation at the "XI International Championship Lege Artis 2026" in Tuzla (Bosnia and Hercegovina):
1st Prize in Vocal Ensemble and 2nd Prize in Sacred Music categories.👏

24/05/2026

On April 14, 1929, a concert was held at the Zeneakadémia / Liszt Academy, featuring Budapest’s finest school choirs. Nearly 700 students from seven schools performed. The program consisted exclusively of works by Kodály, performed solely by children’s choirs. It was at this concert that Pünkösdölő / Whitsuntide (After folkloristic fragments,1929) was also premiered.
"Pünkösdölő [Whitsuntide] (1929), based on folk fragments, is Kodály’s most complex suite form for children’s choir, rivalling even the complexity of his works for adult choirs. It is made of a succession of eight different melodies. Whilst the folksongs at the beginning of the piece are directly linked to the feast of Whitsun (the first for instance being a Calvinist Whitsun song of praise), the later melodies (for example, “Ezt ölelem, ezt szeretem”) move steadily away from it, and evoke rather the ritual of a pagan fertility rite, the memories of the consecration of spring. In Pünkösdölő the typical traits of Kodály’s choral style appear: an alternation of homophonic and polyphonic sections, sound-painting and onomatopoeia, and moments of lyricism and jaunty dances." (by Anna Dalos, translated by Richard Robinson)

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24/05/2026

The 2nd graders of our partner institution, the Calvinist Primary School presented Pentecost folk customs to bid farewell to the MA1 class, who had met with them every week as part of the School Observation Class—sometimes at the school, sometimes at the Kodály Institute. Thank you to teachers Ms. Rácz Mónika Horányi and Dr. Zsuzsa Buzás for this wonderful idea.

22/05/2026

And one of the winners will receive a scholarship, for a semester at the Kodály Institute...🎹🎼

May 30, 2026!!!

The 4th IKAF - International Kodály A Ca****la Festival