Budapest Music Center will celebrate the 90th birthday of György Kurtág with a grandiose festival between 14-21 February. The concert will present almost every part of the oeuvre, from the solo and chamber works to the choir and orchestral compositions. Apart from the original Kurtág pieces visitors will also have the chance to hear transcriptions of the piano pieces Játékok for chamber ensemble by Olivier Cuendet, the orchestral version of Zwiegespräch (originally composed for a string quartet and synthesizer), a program consisting of unpublished or barely known compositions and an homage concert of works by Kurtág contemporaries.

Most of the Hungarian and foreign performers taking part in the festival are former students of Kurtág or worldwide known performers of his work: Zoltán Kocsis, Gábor Csalog, András Keller, Péter Eötvös, Rácz Zoltán,  Natalia Zagorinskaya, Juliane Banse, Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The concerts will be complemented by round-table discussions and lectures. A facsimile publication will be presented, the “Notebook for Kocsis Zoli” collected and copied from 1974 to 2006 by Kurtág himself for the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Kocsis, and a documentary film compiled by Judit Kurtág, the composer's grand-daughter, of footage filmed during a decade will be showed.

The primary locations of the events are the concert hall and library of BMC. The concert performed on February 19th, the composer's birthday, will take place at the Academy of Music, and the premiere of the previously mentioned documentary movie together with a concert will be hosted by the Palace of Arts.