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Lynn and Charles Steinmetz - Concertmaster Chair
Hungarian-born Tamas
Kocsis began his violin studies at the age
of five. He received his training at the Liszt
Academy with Denes Kovacs before coming over to the
United States in 1989, where he studied on a full
scholarship with Josef Gingold at Indiana University.
He later attended The Juilliard School, where he
worked with Dorothy DeLay. Tamas was also invited
to participate in the 1994 and 1995 Aspen Music Festival.
In
1994, Tamas won the European Council’s Award
and the Artists’ International Auditions in NYC
prior to his appointment as Concertmaster of the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra in 1995. During his three
years in Texas, he was on the faculty at the School of
Music at Texas Christian University. In 1998 he
became Concertmaster of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra,
where he remained until the orchestra unfortunately folded
last year. Tamas also spent the summers of 1996-2000
as Concertmaster of the Breckenridge Music Institute
at the Breckenridge Music Festival; since 2001, he has
been the Concertmaster of the Crested Butte Music Festival
in Colorado. He has made recordings of the complete
violin sonatas and piano quartets of Brahms under the
EPR label.
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Tamas
Kocsis
