100th Birthday Gift: Kurtág Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Budapest Academy of Music
- 9 Feb 2026 10:23 AM
The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music awarded Gyorgy Kurtag an honorary doctorate on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The world-famous composer, former student and teacher at the Academy of Music, received his honorary doctorate from the university's management.
Kurtag, twice winner of the Kossuth Prize and three times winner of the Ferenc Erkel Prize, who is considered one of the most significant contemporary Hungarian composers alongside Gyorgy Ligeti and Peter Eotvos, will turn 100 on February 19.
The honorary doctorate was presented to Kurtag by Gabor Farkas, rector of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.
To mark Kurtag's upcoming 100th birthday, the Budapest Music Centre (BMC) is organising a large-scale, year-long series of events across the country.
The Kurtag100 festival will feature international stars and leading performers from the Hungarian contemporary music scene presenting a cross-section of Kurtag's oeuvre.
Programmes will be held in Budapest in Mupa, the Academy of Music, and BMC, as well as in Gyor, Szombathely, Pecs, and Szeged.
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