We were happy to see more and more of our students coming back to Kecskemét and excited to meet new students who made their big decisions of moving to Hungary to study at the Institute in the 2022-23 academic year. 

The Institute's alumni community lost a lovely member on 21 August.
We were shocked to learn about the death of Jessica Hatton (Canada), student of the 2013-2014 academic year at the Institute. 

Our Erasmus+ Strategic partnership project PRESTO - Practices and Resources for Equipping Schools to Teach Music Online has completed the third study trip, this time to Edinburgh where our project partner, the National Youth Choir of Scotland held the NYCOS Kodály Summer School 2022.

Katalin Kiss, conductor, retired associate professor of the Institute, received the civilian branch of the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit, a prestigious state award on the occasion of 20 August, the anniversary of the state’s foundation.

A review has been published in Canada in the latest volume of the International Education Studies Journal on the Creative Piano Pedagogy developed by two eminent Hungarian Kodály specialists under the name ZeneZen.

Our Erasmus+ Strategic partnership project PRESTO - Practices and Resources for Equipping Schools to Teach Music Online has completed a fantastic study trip to Helsinki, hometown of our Finnish project partner Caprice Oy.

The Bösendorfer instrument in the Kodály Museum has been fully reconstructed with the help of a grant from the National Cultural Fund.