Contemporary music news in one place - the new BMC Music Information Center website

The website of the BMC Hungarian Music Information Center has been relaunched after a full redesign, making Hungarian contemporary music news and information on Hungarian composers, compositions and performers available internationally with richer content than ever before. 

The website, updated in every detail for 2024, brings together news and events from the contemporary music scene at info.bmc.hu. In addition to information on programmes at various venues, visitors can find out about local and international courses, as well as instrumental and composition competitions. The BMC's databases are also available via the revamped website.

László Gőz, founder of the BMC, set up the Information Center in 1996 with the aim of collecting and publishing information on contemporary Hungarian music and musicians in an online database accessible to anyone free of charge, making it easier to perform works and to commission artists. The composition and artist database, which has been constantly expanding ever since, currently contains information on nearly 5,000 classical and jazz musicians, composers and ensembles, and 32,000 contemporary music compositions.

The Information Center is accompanied by a free-to-use music library in the Mátyás Street building of the Budapest Music Center. The BMC Library's collection contains more than 100,000 scores, books, CDs and LPs, mainly from the works of 20th and 21st century Hungarian composers, including many scores not available elsewhere in Hungary. The BMC Library also houses the Mahler Record Collection, created by Péter Fülöp, which is the world's largest sound archive of recordings of Mahler's works.

The unique professional and technical background and the intimate atmosphere also make the BMC Library an ideal venue for chamber concerts, educational lectures, film screenings and master classes, and has so far organised more than 600 free and open programmes for music lovers. Videos of the events can be watched afterwards on the Library's YouTube channel, where more than 200 videos are already available.

Details: info.bmc.hu