In 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Liszt Academy of Music awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize to opera singer Lajos Miller and composer Balázs D. Kecskés.The award ceremony was held on 25 March at the Liszt Academy of Music.
Every year, on Béla Bartók’s birthday, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music announces the names of the two artists – one performer and one composer – who have been awarded the Bartók-Pásztory Prize. The prize was founded by the pianist and composer’s widow, Ditta Pásztory, in her will and is awarded by a board of trustees made up of the university’s faculty. Since 1984, the prize has been awarded every year to Hungarian artists who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of Hungarian music and to the preservation of Bartók’s spiritual legacy.