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Zoltán Kocsis (Conductor)

Born: 30th May 1952, Budapest

Died: 6th November 2016, Budapest

Nationality: Hungarian

Kocsis was born in Budapest on 30th May 1952 and displayed great musical potential from a very young age, studying piano and composition at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and Franz Liszt Academy before winning the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition aged 18; shortly afterwards he made the first of many tours to the United States (he would later enjoy close relationships with the Chicago and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras in particular, as well as several major European orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmoniker). From the 1980s onward, he pursued a very successful parallel career as a conductor, notably with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra (from whom he was musical director from 1997) and was also a gifted arranger and transcriber. Kocsis’s many awards included the Liszt Prize in 1973 and the Kossuth Prize (the Hungarian State’s most prestigious accolade for culture) in addition to his multiple Gramophone Award nominations.

Described by his compatriot and regular collaborator Iván Fischer (with whom he founded the Budapest Festival in the early 1980s) as 'a giant of music', Kocsis was particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of the music of fellow Hungarians György Kurtág, Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók, initially from the keyboard and later from the podium - over the past few years, his recordings of Bartók's orchestral works with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra on Hungaroton have won widespread critical acclaim, including several Gramophone Award nominations and Building A Library First Choices.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltán_Kocsis

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