As the sister of the American WEBBY AWARDS, the LOVIE Awards are one of Europe’s most prestigious Internet Content-Film and Advertising competitions. True to their traditions, they will submit the works that have reached the finals to a serious international online audience vote, the winner of which will receive the People's Lovie Award. You can vote  by clicking here any time before midnight on 17 October.

This recording made of the closing Mozart Day – an initiative conceived by the festival’s founder and artistic director, András Keller – concert now nominated for the award is the collective work of lead director and producer Imre Stein Szabó, music and TV director András Komlós, the creative staff of the Liszt Academy (co-producer Gergely Lakatos and lead scenographer Jancsó Nyika) and producer and Concerto Budapest general director Gábor Devich.

The film of the live internet broadcast was selected from 1,200 entries from 35 countries around the world for advancement to the finals in the general category “Music & Entertainment in Film & Video” by the London-based LOVIE Awards jury, whose members are appointed by the extremely influential and prestigious International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS ), the organiser of the competition, and which includes such figures as Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Adrienne Lahens (TikTok), Maxine Williams (Meta), or Jade Coles, head of cultural programs at Apple, Ines Alpha (Global Creative, Prada Beauty), Nico Sarti (Global VP, Condé Nast), Camilla Calvert, head of marketing at Reddit, and Marc Kremers, founder of Future Corps.

The official trailer of the more than two-hour-long concert film can be viewed HERE.

It was a special moment starting at 7:30 pm on 3 March 2024 when live video of the closing concert of the Mozart Day festival became available on the front page of Index.hu (primarily for the Hungarian audience) and on the front page of Gramophone.co.uk (primarily for viewers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere across the world).

Every year since 2018, Concerto Budapest has dedicated a one-day concert series to the eternal classical music favourite Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Regarding the 2024 event, festival founder András Keller said, “This year’s Mozart Day placed the spotlight on the clarinet and the horn. He wrote so intimately for both instruments, and his love for them shines through every note. I developed an affinity for Mozart relatively late. In many respects, based on my temperament and personality, Beethoven and Bartók are closer to me, but for some time now Mozart too has occupied a very special place in my soul. More than just music, his art is a divine phenomenon. In fact, Mozart gives us back Paradise Lost.”

Imre Szabó Stein, lead director of the Stream, said that thanks to the success of previous years, "this year we managed to get Gramophone, the world's leading classical music portal, to join Concerto Budapest’s initiative. This has been an unprecedented opportunity. Touching and engaging new audiences through live broadcasts and concert films is a splendid opportunity at a time when people are shifting from reading and listening to music to watching video as a result of changing cultural habits.”

When Concerto Budapest appeared on the front page of Index on Beethoven Day in November 2020, using the traditional TV and new video approach, the effort yielded a total of 240,000 viewers (clicks on ‘play’). Since then, three Mozart Day live broadcasts, Viva La Viola! Concerts, a Let’s listen to Brahms! Concert – all directed by Imre Szabó Stein in the joint format created with the internet news portal, under the artistic direction of András Keller, and two additional live broadcasts – the orchestra’s international award-winning films for MEZZO TV, also directed by Szabó Stein (the 2020 film Weinberg, which won the Venice TV Festival, and the Hungarian internet premiere of the 2022 film Carpathian Rhapsody, which won the Silver Trophy at the NEW YORK TV&Film Awards) – reached about 1.5 million viewers watching the classical music for varying lengths of time on the front page of Index