Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice)

The Czecho-Slovak Condition Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1968 in the cosmopolitan city of Kosice, the administrative centre of Eastern Slovakia. The 1st music director from the orchestra was Bystrik Rezucha. The 90-member ensemble offers recorded a lot more than 200 functions, mostly from the nineteenth hundred years repertoire, but also fresh functions by Slovak composers. The orchestra offers toured throughout European countries and china and taiwan, and in 1994, it had been the 1st orchestra from Slovakia to execute in the us. The orchestra also performs yearly at two worldwide music festivals kept in Kosice: the Kosice Music Springtime Festival as well as the International Body organ Celebration. The orchestra’s discography in the Naxos and Marco Polo brands include globe premiere recordings of functions by Spohr, Raff, Rubinstein, Furtwängler, Waldteufel, and von Suppé.