Zoltán Kocsis Conductor

Music Director, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Zoltan Kocsis is one of the great personalities of the music world: enigmatic, brilliant and hugely versatile. He is a pianist, conductor, chamber musician, composer and arranger: a true all-round musician.

In 1998, Mr Kocsis was appointed Music Director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Amongst the remarkable concerts which characterised his first year with the orchestra was a performance of Schoenberg‘s Gurrelieder, which was regarded as the highlight of the Budapest Spring Festival. This season and next he tours extensively with the orchestra, often performing his original transcriptions and compositions.

In 1983, Zoltan Kocsis and Ivan Fischer founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra and he was one of its Artistic Directors until 1997. During those fourteen years the orchestra established itself at the highest level appearing in the most prestigious series in the world’s most important musical centres.

As a guest conductor, Zoltan Kocsis has worked with the Philharmonia, WDR Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Finnish Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Philharmonie Essen, and the Czech Philharmonic.

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