Pannon Philharmonic

Five exceptional concerts on Saturday nights with a high-five orchestra and world-famous soloists at the stately concert hall of the Kodály Center in Pécs – so can be summarized briefly the Pannon Philharmonic’s premium concert series.

The ensemble offers these Pannonicum-concerts planned for Saturdays for those music lovers who do not live in Pécs or are extremely busy on weekdays, but not wanting to miss the unique productions of the region’s cultural life.

At the first concert of the programme, on October 18, Saturday night at 18 o'clock, the French and German lines of music history were represented. Schubert’s 8th "Unfinished" Symphony turned out to be yet well-rounded; the whimsical musical runs of Debussy's dance poem Jeux were evoking a game of tag played by two little girls and a boy; and Ravel's La Valse „smuggled” the genre of waltz into the Kodály Centre’s concert hall. In Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, the Russians also have a role, even through by the passionate solo playing of the most talented violinists of his generation, the young Kirill Troussov, who knows no bounds as in virtuosity, as in elegance.

Kirill Troussov is not a first-time guest artist of the orchestra. Ont he last season concert tour in Western Europe, he has been already featured with the troupe.
Also this season, exceptional musical works, which will be spirited into truly lasting experience by exceptional talented musicians of the national and international music scene, are lined up at the Pannonicum series of the Pannon Philharmonic.
At the November and February concerts of the series the piano is getting the lead. At the second one, the world-renowned pianist Andrei Gavrilov is returning to the orchestra; he already is played several times with the Pannon Philharmonic on the last year’s Western European concert tour. In February, the orchestra’s audience can  witness a very special productions, a talent heritage: Zoltán Kocsis, one of the greatest Hungarian conductors will conduct his   son, the pianist Krisztián Kocsis in Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E flat major, which he  had also played on several occasions.
In the second half of the concert series, ladies play the main roles; in April, the lovely Júlia Pusker shows Juliet her genius in a violin concerto of Mozart, and in May, listening to Richard Strauss’s six songs, you can experience how what magical is when the Kodály Centre’s concert hall with its incomparable acoustics is filled with the voice of the world-famous opera singer, Erika Miklósa.