Tamás Kocsis. Photo courtesy of Jackson Symphony.
Tennessee’s Jackson Symphony has appointed Tamás Kocsis as concertmaster. He was previously concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, appointed in 1995, and later held the same title with the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2010, he joined the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, where he recorded extensively and gained acclaim for his 2022 solo debut of Kurt Weill’s Violin Concerto No. 2. Born in Hungary in the early 1970s to a violinist father and pianist mother, Kocsis was accepted into the Liszt Academy in Budapest at age ten and debuted on Hungarian Radio a year later. In 1989, he received a full scholarship to Indiana University to study with Josef Gingold, followed by further training at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay. Kocsis will perform as a soloist in future Jackson Symphony concerts; audiences will have their first opportunity to hear Kocsis lead the Jackson Symphony at Virtuoso Unveiled, the opening night of the orchestra’s 65th season on September 6 at the Carl Perkins Civic Center.
