Zoltán Kocsis, one of the most important figures in Hungarian music over the last five decades, has created a tradition by giving a concert every year on his birthday for charity, inviting his fellow musicians and friends to play chamber music together. This fine tradition was revived by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, which he led for almost twenty years, and his alma mater, and 30 May was dubbed Hungarian Classical Music Day.
On the 70th anniversary of the birth of the renowned musician, in 2022, the National Philharmonic Orchestra will play Hungarian classical pieces alongside with a contemporary Hungarian composer: the premiere of Tímea Dragony's work inspired by Scandinavian mythology, a composition that won the Müpa Music Competition 2020 in the category of symphonic orchestral works.
