Marcel Worms - Pianist Many of the genre's greatest figures were both bandleader and pianist. to 'Tristanund Isolde' (18541859) (transcription for piano by zoltan kocsis) 3.Franz http://www.euronet.nl/~mrworms/eng/discography.html
Extractions: Tangos for Piano from Latin America and Europe (BVHAAST 0702) Download here 'A fuego lento' by Horacio Salgan (MP3, 504 KB) This CD places the tangos of South America, where the dance originated, next to and against tangos written by European composers in the early twentieth century, when the tango first crossed the ocean. In addition, three recent tangos written by Dutch composers are included, two of which were composed especially for Marcel Worms. From the very beginning, the piano played an important role in the tango orchestra. Many of the genre's greatest figures were both bandleader and pianist. 1. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Tango (1940)
Iclassics.com - Classical Music And More Born in Budapest, zoltan kocsis began to play the piano at the Kurtág has dedicatedseveral compositions to Mr. kocsis, which the pianist has performed http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/artists_bio.jsp?entityId=489
Pianist Schiff Joins Budapest Festival Orchestra In Concert Oct. 26 The Budapest Festival Orchestra was founded in 1983 by conductor Ivan Fischer andpianist zoltan kocsis (who performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic in a 1990 http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/1998/october/1009schiff.html
Extractions: e-mail:winston-barclay@uiowa.edu Release: Immediate Pianist Andras Schiff joins with Budapest Festival Orchestra in Bartok/Stravinsky concert IOWA CITY, Iowa Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff will be the featured soloist when the Budapest Festival Orchestra presents a concert of music by Bartok and Stravinsky at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in Hancher Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus. Under the direction of founding conductor Ivan Fischer, the orchestra will perform two of Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet scores, the 1919 version of the "Firebird Suite" and "Jeu de cartes." Schiff will be featured in performances of Bartok's second and third piano concertos, which he performed on acclaimed 1996 recordings with the Budapest Festival Orchestra on the Teldec label. Schiff, a native of Budapest, is Hungary's best known classical pianist, recognized worldwide for his thoughtful and inspired interpretations of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Bartok. He was the New York Philharmonic's Artist-in-Residence for the 1997-98 season. A two-time Grammy Award winner, Schiff has also won England's Gramophone Award, Italy's Premio Abbiati, the 1991 Bartok Prize, "Instrumentalist of the Year" in the International Classical Music Awards, and the inaugural Claudio Arrau Memorial Medal from the Robert Schumann Society. In 1996 he was honored with Hungary's highest distinction, the Kossuth Prize. Schiff's discography now totals nearly 75 releases.
Extractions: e-mail: peter-alexander@uiowa.edu Release: Jan. 19, 2001 (NOTE TO BROADCASTERS: Gabor Csalog is pronounced "GA-bor CHAH-lohg") Celebrated Hungarian pianist Gabor Csalog will present free UI recital Feb. 3 IOWA CITY, Iowa The celebrated Hungarian pianist Gabor Csalog will present a free recital at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3 in Clapp Recital Hall on the University of Iowa campus. Csalog, who teaches chamber music at the Bela Bartok Conservatory in Budapest, will visit the UI as part of the School of Music's Piano Festival 2000-2001. During his visit to the UI campus, Csalog will present a master class with UI students at 9 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 4 in Clapp Recital Hall. The master class may be observed by the public free of charge. An annual event, the Piano Festival is a celebration of piano performance and teaching. It includes master classes and performances from outstanding visiting artist-teachers from around the world. Remaining events in Piano Festival 2000-2001 will be a recital and master class by Leonard Hokanson Feb. 24-25 and a recital and master class by Constance Keene March 25-26. For the Feb. 3 recital Csalog will perform the Sonata in A minor, D. 537, and the Impromptu in C minor, D. 899/1, by Franz Schubert; Klavierstuecke (Piano pieces) op. 119 by Johannes Brahms; "Games," by Gyorgy Kurtag, who was one of Csalog’s teachers in Hungary; and the Sonata in C minor, op. 111, of Beethoven.
UCSF Today Art Notes Jan.19, 8 pm Hungarian National Philharmonic with zoltan kocsis conductor and pianist,in a thrilling allHungarian program including Les Preludes of Liszt, a http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/arts.php?news_id=200301075
Article 0069 Andras Wilheim, worldwide famous Gyorgy Kurtag, Peter Eotovos (the conductor ofPierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain) and famous pianist zoltan kocsis. http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0069.html
Extractions: I n 1979 Csapo is given a post as professor of music at the Bartok Conservatory, where he is in charge of ear training, orchestration, musical theory and chamber music, and he stays there until 1983. Then he travels to the United States, while continuing as a lecturer at the Liszt Academy. Three years before he had paid a short visit to this country, where he became interested in the American musical panorama, since the NMS had been in close professional contact with the American avantgarde, having premiered several works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Frederick Rzewski, Charlemagne Palestine and others, in spite of the dislike that the Hungarian government had for them, hardly "tolerating" them, given the Communist Party policies with regard to American cultural interference. The NMS members were not prosecuted as political instigators, however, thanks to the fact that the works they performed had no explicit texts whatsoever.
Carnegie Hall: Budapest Festival Orchestra The Budapest Festival Orchestra (photo left) was founded by Hungarian conductorIvan Fischer and pianist zoltan kocsis in 1983 but did not start playing http://www.scena.org/columns/anson/030116-PA-budapest.html
Extractions: The Budapest Festival Orchestra (photo left) was founded by Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer and pianist Zoltan Kocsis in 1983 but did not start playing together permanently until 1992. Created as an alternative to what was then perceived as mediocre official socialist-era Hungarian orchestras such as the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra hired musicians on merit and asked them to work for little or nothing while the band established itself and sought private funding. The group toured to raise its profile and landed a contract with Philips Classics. Its albums of music by Liszt, Dvorak, and Bartok got good reviews. Yet the road to success was rocky. Fischer faced unexpected competition from his former partner Kocsis who in 1997 became the artistic director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Kocsis more or less undercut Fischer by implementing his reforms at the National and landing several millions of dollars in government funding. Meanwhile, Fischer was left to beg for corporate handouts to support his fledgling capitalist enterprise. Today the Budapest Festival Orchestra is actively trying to brand itself and to find a niche in the competitive world of major symphony orchestras.Its job is not made any easier by the simultaneous U.S. touring of its erstwhile competitor the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
La Scena Musicale - On The Aisle By Philip Anson institutions. Hungary's Budapest Festival Orchestra was founded in1983 by conductor Ivan Fischer and pianist zoltan kocsis. The http://www.scena.org/columns/anson/000121-PA-RNO.htm
Extractions: Jan. 21, 2000. New York - The fall of Soviet Bloc communism and the subsequent drying up of government subsidies stimulated the creation of several new orchestras along the lines of privately sponsored western institutions. Hungary's Budapest Festival Orchestra was founded in 1983 by conductor Ivan Fischer and pianist Zoltan Kocsis. The Moscow-based Russian National Orchestra was created in the former Soviet Union in September 1990 by pianist Mikhail Pletnev, bringing together what promotional literature describes as "the finest musicians in the country" and "many players from the principal ranks of the major Soviet orchestras, most of them soloists in their own right." The need to earn hard currency and to promote their thirteen Deutsche Gramophon recordings means that the RNO has to tour constantly. Their latest American tour covered Ann Arbor, Worcester, Troy, Long Island, and Manhattan between Jan. 19 and Jan. 24. Performing six concerts in as many days is no way to get the best out of weary musicians, as the RNO's lacklustre Jan. 21 concert at Lincoln Centre's Avery Fisher Hall demonstrated.
Extractions: Csaba Kiraly was born at Komlo in 1965. He was six when he started learning the piano under Maria Apagyi. At the age of twelve he began to learn the organ under Istvan Lantos. From 1981 his studies were continued at the "Bela Bartok" Secondary Music School in Budapest with Katalin Halmagyi, and in 1983 he gained admission to the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music During his student years he won first prize in all national competitions organized for his age group: 1980 - National Piano Competition for Music Schools (Nyiregyhaza); 1982 - National Piano Competition for Secondary Music Schools (Bekestarhos); 1990 - Erno Dohnanyi National Piano Competition (Academy of Music Budapest). In the meantime in 1985 he - won the first prize in the National Piano Competition of the Hungarian Radio, being one of the youngest competitors, as a result of which he became known throughout the country. After several years teaching and concert giving he undertook to play in competitions again, and was first prize winner
SignOnSanDiego.com Kodaly, Variations on a Hungarian folksong The Peacock, Dances from Galanta;Liszt, Piano Concerto in EFlat Major zoltan kocsis, pianist and Mazeppa http://sandiego.citysearch.com/profile/249812/
Extractions: La Jolla Chamber Music Society's Neale Perl moved to Washington, D.C., this summer. And as San Diego Union-Tribune's classical music critic, Valerie Scher, put it, he left LJCMS fans "a memento of his leadership: plans for next season's concerts at La Jolla's Sherwood Auditorium. CELEBRITY SERIES 2002-2003 Nov. 16: Joshua Bell and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Instrumentalists: Catalog 36 x 6 color shot of the young Hungarian pianist ..$35110 SCHIFF, Andras/kocsis,zoltan/RANKI, Deszo SP informal 5 x 7 http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrument36.html
MetaEUREKA Metasearch The results 1 to 2 from 2. 1. kocsis, zoltan (1952) Cosmopolis archiveHungarian pianist; brief biography and concert review. http://www.metaeureka.com/cgi-bin/odp2.pl?dir=Arts/Music/Instruments/Keyboard/Pi
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Opera Orgy In Eastern Europe By Ray Chowkwanyun They played Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. The pianist/conductor, zoltan kocsis,was wonderful. Better than Ashkenazy. More feeling. More heavily accented. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/music/1202/operaorgy.htm
Extractions: By a huge margin, the National Theatre in Praha (Prague) has the best acoustics of the five venues I sampled. I never thought I'd see these words in cold print but forget Vienna, forget Luzern, and especially forget the Met. This is it. I would be happy to sit here for hours' just listening to the orchestra tuning up, so gorgeous is the sound. The first thing I heard as I entered was the harps tuning up. Each note was a liquid drop of golden sound. There is such a bloom to the acoustic in this auditorium. It is as if each note were floating on its own acoustic pillow. This theatre treasures and coddles every note with perfect clarity. There is no muddiness at all. All the different threads in the music can be heard separately and yet in such full richness of tone. When the bassoon started practicing it sounded as if he were playing an instrument the size of a young sequoia. What a huge tone so loud and so woody. The only drawback of seeing a ballet is that I was unable to judge how singers would have projected from the stage. Oh well, guess I'll just have to come back and check it out. It's a tough assignment but someone's got to do it.
A Pianist's Diary Hough and zoltan kocsis, Janina Fialkowska and Cecile Ousset. This is one of thebooks that belongs on the shelves of every serious pianist, piano teacher or http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/5505/F010205.html
Extractions: Great Book of Interviews Sunday, February 4, 2001 These titles are available through Dover Publications which is a significant source of important material for musical and cultural enrichment. This latest book is no exception. It's full of great quotable material. Great Contemporary Pianists Speak For Themselves Elyse Mach This book would ordinarily follow a reading of Great Pianists on Piano Playing by James Francis Cooke, also available from Dover, which I reviewed here last year. For one thing this is a far more contemporary book than Cooke's and the pianists interviewed are a mix of some of the older greats with some of the newer talents. Conspicuously missing but far from forgotten is Arthur Rubinstein. He is remembered largely through his protege, Janina Fialkowska. The portraits of some of the pianists one will actually meet inside are from top left to bottom right, Vladimir Horowitz, Claudio Arrau, Andre Watts, Alicia de Larrocha, Glenn Gould, Emil Gilells, Rosalyn Tureck and Jorge Bolet. Each has quite different stories to tell of how they came to be concert pianists. In this book, one will hear one of the few instances where a pianist goes into some depth concerning pianos themselves; It is true that you transport your own piano for the concerts you play?
Decca Music Group - Zoltán Kocsis The pianist, composer and conductor awarded with the In 1980, zoltan signed anexclusive contract with At present, Zoltán kocsis is busy researching and http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/kocsis/biog.html
Pianisti Translate this page One of the rare pianist who plays all the 27 Studies of Liszt (12 i suoi studi pressol'Accademia Liszt di Budapest invitato da zoltan kocsis e György Kurtag. http://www.acomitalia.com/pianisti.htm
Extractions: PIANISTI Ha studiato con Achucarro presso la Dallas University dove ha ottenuto il prestigioso "Master of Music" e con Perticaroli. Ha tenuto molti concerti negli Stati Uniti e in Italia dove si è esibita anche con l'Orchestra di Santa Cecilia. Nel gennaio 1998 ha effettuato una tournée in Germania e Polonia dove è stata invitata a tornare anche l'anno successivo. Recentemente ha suonato anche a Vienna e a Londra. Dotata di una tecnica precisa, colpisce soprattutto per la poesia interpretativa. (*) General Management Acom Francesca Cardone S he has studied with Achucarro, at the Dallas University, where she obtained the prestigious"Master of Music", and with Perticaroli. She has given many concerts in USA and in Italy where she has played with the Santa Cecilia's Orchestra. On January 1998 she made a tournèe in Germany and Poland, where she has been invited to return the following year. Recently she has played in Vienna and London.
Press Releases 14, 2003 JAIME LAREDO LEADS THE BRANDENBURG ENSEMBLE WITH pianist PETER SERKIN ZOLTÁNkocsis View full release Click to view photos zoltan kocsis December 31 http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/router.asp?nodeid=2015
Mi Történt A Múlt Hónapban The singer, Balint Farkas Domsodi, with Bela Budai, pianist, and Imre Hall givenby the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by zoltan kocsis. http://www.sdmagyar.org/nl_2003_02.htm
Extractions: HOUSE of HUNGARY, Inc. a California Public Benefit Corporation Pan American Plaza , Balboa Park, CA 92101. Tel.: (619) 238-5155 Volume 8, Issue 2 www.sdmagyar.org February 2003 Please dont forget the deadline for the membership dues, February 20th! Kérjük ne felejtsék el befizetni a tagsági díjat február 20-ig Mi történt a múlt hónapban? Olyan sok minden történt most januárban, mint máskor több hónap alatt sem. A pótszilveszteren és Horváth Imre sokakat táncra perdítettek. Január 8-án mi voltunk a házigazdái a Ladies Auxiliary Luncheon Kocsis Zoltán koncertet adott a Magyar Nemzeti Filharmonikusok élén január 21-én a Copley Symphony Január 22-én pár magyar részt vett a UCSD-n Róna-Tas Ákos tagtársunk által szervezett fórumon Nations of San Diego néptánc fesztivál programjában fellépett a Kárpátok népi tánc együttes is, és méltán arattak nagy sikert. Január 25-én szombaton új magyar filmet angol feliratozással, amit a New Yorki Magyar Kulturális Intézet támogatásával kaptunk. Beginning February 22 nd in the House of Hungary history classes oriented for children will be held on the fourth Saturday of the month from 9:00 am until 11:00 am. Rita Dobosi will teach these classes. Not only Hungarys history will be explored, but also music, poetry and famous Hungarian figures. The children will learn from contemporary Hungarian books, provided by the House of Hungary. Hungarian historical films will also be screened. After the History class, Ildiko Debolt will instruct folkdance for children from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Music for these lessons will be provided by Peter Ostapenko and Miklos Nemeth. These classes will be held for children ages 6-14 years. We ask that parents and grandparents bring their children to the house for these activities. Parents and grandparents may stay if they wish.
