Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Zoltán Kocsis

Zoltán Kocsis was born in 1952 in Budapest, began playing the piano at age five. From 1963, he studied piano and  composition at Béla Bartók Vocational Secondary School of Music; and then he got admitted to Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1968 as a student of Pál Kadosa and… More

Soloist

Krisztián Kocsis

piano

Hungarian Radio Choir (chorus master: Zoltán Pad)

About the Programme

It is always a special event if one sees a father and his son together on stage. Furthermore, Zoltán Kocsis and the sixteen-year-old Krisztián Kocsis’s joint performance has another piquant thing that the chief conductor of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra – as a world-renowned pianist – knows superbly the concert’s first concerto, Ferenc Liszt’s Piano Concerto in E flat major from the view of a soloist, as well. Liszt’s art was known and used as an important inspiring source for Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, the two excellent figures of the musical impressionism, too. At the dawn of modernism, the composers were inspired not only by great musicians but the representants of other artforms, works of painters, dancers, or choreographers. Debussy wrote the Three Nocturne for Orchestra (Clouds, Festivals, Sirens) based on picture of James Whistler; from the antique story, Ravel composed his Daphnis and Chloé, wich has two orchestral transcripts, on commission of Sergei Diaghilev, the director of the world-famous Russian Ballet.