General Information (with adjudicators)

General Information

Founder Co-Directors:

(1990 to 2018)
Geraldine Keeling and Judith Neslény

Co-Directors:
(2018 to present)

Éva Polgár: repertoire and scheduling
epolgar@apu.edu

Katherine Hickey: registration and other business
kathy_hickey@redlands.edu

 

2024 Awards

Awards will be presented at the Saturday (November 23) and Sunday (November 24) Winners Concerts in Munson Chapel at Azusa Pacific University.

Voice Division IX — New York Concert — offers the winner a solo recital of the music of Liszt at the Liszt Institute in New York City (date TBA). Although the recital will require 50 minutes of music, only 20 minutes is required for the November competition. The judges will take into consideration not only the November performance but also the coherence of the complete proposed concert.

Piano Division X — Budapest Concert — offers the winner a solo recital of the music of Liszt at the prestigious Liszt Ferenc Museum and Research Center in Budapest, Hungary on May 31, 2024. The recital will take place in the same hall where Liszt taught his students. Although the recital will require 50 minutes of music, only 30 minutes will be required for the November competition. The judges will take into consideration not only the November performance but also the coherence of the complete proposed program. The November performance should demonstrate that the contestant will have complete technical and musical mastery of the proposed program.

All participants receive a certificate of performance. Other awards include books, CDs, cash awards, concert opportunities, and a commercial CD recording opportunity granted by Hunnia Records. All awards are subject to change. 

Adjudicators

Piano Divisions:

Voice Divisions:

Judy Tran is a Los Angeles-based singer, pianist, and composer.  Judy studied at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) and went on to study at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and der Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

Judy performed as featured soloist with the Vienna International Orchestra, and the Bratislava Chamber Orchestra.   Venues she has performed in include Los Angeles’s Disney Hall and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Vienna’s Palais Auersperg, Stephansdom Cathedral, Grand Casino Baden, and Schönbrunn Schlosstheater; Prague’s Synagogue and Music Academy; St. Petersburg’s Pushkin Palace and the historical apartment of Rimsky-Korsakov; Bratislava’s Archbishop’s Palace, the Nixon Presidential Library, and the Embassy of Hungary in Washington D.C.  Judy was the first place winner of the New York Concert Division of the 2016 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and now serves on the board of directors of the American Liszt Society Southern California Chapter.   Judy is the founder of Piano Purpose Peace, a campaign to build musical bridges across cultures to create peace. 

William Wellborn is the Founding President of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Liszt Society, and an Emeritus member of the ALS national board. A recipient of the 2017 CAPMT Lifetime Achievement Award, he was an MTNA Fellow in 2019.  Among twenty different European musical tours, Wellborn has lead five exploring the life and music of Liszt, and in 2004 he had the honor of playing an all-Liszt program on Liszt’s piano at Hofgärtnerei Museum in Weimar. A faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1989, he returns this summer to teach at the Idyllwild Arts Academy Summer Workshop for Adults (www.idyllwildarts.org), and the Krakow Piano Summer in Krakow, Poland. For more information on Mr. Wellborn’s activities please visit his website at www.williamwellborn.com

Sponsorship

Donor Categories:

$1000.00 and above Commander Liszt

$500.00 – $999.00 Abbé Liszt

$100.00 – $499.00 Franzi

$25.00 – $99.00 Le petit Litz

Current Sponsors include:

  • The American Liszt Society (ALS)
  • The SoCal Chapter of ALS
  • Music Teachers Association of California, Pasadena Branch
  • California Federation of Music Clubs
  • The Hungary Foundation
  • The Hungarian Academy of Arts
  • Taige Wang, Winner of LAILC Division I, 2021
  • Dr. Ernő Dániel, pianist and conductor, founder of The Dr. Ernő and Katinka Dániel Memorial Prize