The orchestra composed of teachers, graduate and undergraduate students, regularly tours the world, and will perform in central Europe for the first time. Among its Hungarian members is cellist Robert Martin, who also serves as the Conservatory's director.

The Budapest Music Centre, which will be one of the most significant centre for contemporary music in Hungary, opening officially in March 2013.

The Bard Conservatory Orchestra will perform pieces by Mozart, Schubert and Ernő Dohnányi as well as the world premiere of the "Two Mirrors" by Seoul-born Sunbin Kim, fellow at Bard College.

The almost hundred-year-old Bard College's relations look back to 1957 when it provided support and language learning opportunities to 300 young Hungarian refugees after the crushing of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. One of them was doctor and writer Laszlo Bitó, who returned to Hungary after 1989 and promoted studying opportunities at the conservatory for Hungarian students.

Source: kormany.hu