Zoltán Kocsis-Holper is an Artisjus and KÓTA prize-winning conductor, solo singer and music teacher, principal conductor of the Kodály Choir Debrecen, member of the Artistic Committee of the Association of Hungarian Choirs, Orchestras, Folklore Ensembles (KÓTA), and between 2016 and 2020 he will be the Deputy Conductor of the National Choir of Hungary.
He is the founding conductor of the Sopron-based choir Spontánusz, with which he has worked since 2001. He has been the artistic director of several ensembles over the past two decades. Szent Mihály Choir (2005–2011), Gárdonyi Zoltán Reformed Choir (2004–2017), MGV Doborján Franz Liszt Raiding (2011–2017), and the Vass Lajos Chamber Choir of Budapest (2017–2020). He has worked and performed with several amateur choirs, the Hungarian Radio Choir, the Hungarian National Choir, the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra and at the 6th Eric Ericson Masterclass with the Netherlands Radio Choir and the Netherlands Chamber Choir. He has taught conducting at the Liszt Ferenc University of Music - Béla Bartók School of Music and taught for eight years at the Horváth József Elementary Arts School in Sopron, where he was deputy director for two years.
In addition to his own Avizo Conducting Courses, in 2017 he was invited to the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Beijing, where he gave a three-day series of lectures on the Kodály method in China. He led one of the courses at the European Choral Federation’s 2018 Europa Cantat Choral Festival in Tallinn.




