The live rounds will start on 31 August.
All rounds can be followed online through live stream.
- Preliminaries: 31 August – 2 September
- Semi-finals: 3 September
- Final: 5 September
- Gala: 6 September
The venues are the Liszt Academy of Music Budapest and the Hungarian State Opera. Preliminaries and semi-finals are free to attend.
To buy tickets for the final and the gala please click the "SCHEDULE" page.
22 March 2018
More valid applications than ever before have been received by the Liszt Academy for the competition being arranged in September 2018. The field promises to be more diverse than ever, partly due to the fact that the video promoting the competition set Latin American and Russian social media sites on fire.
1 March 2018
We kindly ask all aspirants to complete the online application in time by uploading the requested videos and all other material, as in the last hours the system may be overloaded due to the extraordinary interest.
30 January 2018
Competitors applying before 15 February 23:59 are entitled to a 50% discount if passing to the Preliminary round.
27 October 2016
Watch the 24 September 2016 Final and Award Ceremony in three parts online!
