Bogyay said the ministry had worked together with the academy for several years to create programmes that would expand the school's international connections. She added that the aim of the Hungarian Cultural Season in China is to establish a new and long-term position for Hungarian cultural with the help of cultural diplomacy.
Éva Marton, who heads the academy's singing faculty, and Estzer Perényi, who heads the violin faculty, said a master course they taught in Shanghai in November was one of the most important events of their year.
Ferenc Liszt Music Academy rector András Batta is expected to sign a cooperation agreement with his counterpart at the Shanghai Conservatory when he travels to China later in November to celebrate the conservatory's 80th anniversary.
Bogyay and former UK ambassador to Hungary Nigel Thorpe said the Liszt Academy Network, a foundation set up in 2001 with the help of Lady Valerie Solti, widow of the great conductor, had done much to promote the academy and its students by offering support for young talents to study abroad or work with masters in the profession.
Batta noted that the academy would celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Friends of the Music Academy with the organisation's usual charity concert on November 14, the day in 1875 when teaching started at Franz Liszt's home in Hal Square.
