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.

The Director of the Kodály Institute László Nemes and Cristina Brito da Cruz, Professor of Music Education, Director of Centro Kodály de Portugal ran a 2-day Kodály-concept training in Praia, Cape Verde. 

On April 6 H.E.Mr. Park Chulmin, Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea to Hungary, visited the Institute.

The Kodály Museum, together with the Liszt Museum, became part of a 40-member European association of musicians’ and composers’ memorial museums, with the founding document of the agreement signed in France on 3 April.

AKA (Red), Chamber Choir of the Institute - together with the Singing Circle of Kecskemét conducted by Péter Erdei and the Aurin Girls' Choir conducted by László Durányik - performed successfully at the concert entitled “Da pacem, Domine” - Wish for Peace in the Lutheran Church on March 26 as part of the Kecskemét Spring Festival. 

We are delighted to inform our visitors that the publications of the Kodály Institute are now available through its brand new webshop. All of these latest publications, including basic Kodály-concept literature, fabulous choral scores, and significant earlier studies are listed there, grouped by genre, together with a detailed description of each. To get these valuable materials, just click the basket button, and enjoy reading or teaching with them.

The achievements and professional work of the past three years of the Mercedes-Benz Basketball Academy were praised and celebrated on Saturday night at the ballroom of the Four Points by Sheraton, Kecskemét. The festive reception began with a special programme performed by the students of the Institute.

Dear Colleagues and Musician Friends all around the world,

It is our pleasure to announce that the 31st International Kodály Seminar will take place in Kecskemét from July 18th till July 29th this summer.

Several professors of the Liszt Ferenc University of Music received prestigious state awards on the occasion of the national holiday on March 15. Composer Máté Balogh, an assistant professor at the University and a lecturer at our Institute, received the Ferenc Erkel Award for his outstanding work as a composer and music director.

In 2021, Anita Nagy, Director of the Liszt Institute, Hungarian Cultural Centre in Tokyo organised series of online lectures in Hungarian around the introduction of early childhood art education in Hungary and Japan by prominent educators Katalin Forrai, Mária Vida Székácsné and Hani Kyōko. 

The Foundation for the Kecskemét Kodály Institute is pleased to announce the following scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Five-hundred-year-old coins, a residential house from the Árpád Era and the ground floor of a tower in the former centre of medieval Kecskemét were unearthed during the excavation prior to the renovation of the Kodály Institute, archaeologist András Kristóf Fazekas, employee of the József Katona Museum in Kecskemét told MTI.

On 16 December, students of the Institute walked to the Kecskemét Railway Station and laid a wreath there to commemorate the 139th anniversary of Zoltán Kodály's birth.

The Kodály HUB extended its features within the MUSICBOOK (previously known as Songbook). To celebrate these functions, we have a nice offer for KodályHUB users.

Recently, with the participation of Erzsébet Szőnyi's grandchildren, Edit Alma Gémes and Ákos Tamás Gémes, and the director of the Institute, Dr. László Norbert Nemes, documents from Mrs Szőnyi’s legacy were officially handed over to the Archives of the Institute and the contract was signed.

The investment under the Modern Cities Program has been approved by a government decision recently.

During the course of the last two years, several outstanding faculty members stepped down from their positions as professors or research scholars at the Kodály Institute.