1st Violin Tutti

Slovak State Philharmonic Košice was founded in 1968 as the second professional concert symphony orchestra in Slovakia. In a short time, the orchestra achieved the recognition of experts and the public and became one of the leading representatives of Slovak performing arts at home and abroad.

The orchestra has given concerts at major international music festivals and in important cultural centres (Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, Budapest, New York, etc.).

The orchestra has collaborated with many world-famous artists, such as Igor Oistrakh, Gidon Kremer, Josef Suk, Julia Fischer, Giora Feidman, Ivan Moravec, Xavier de Maistre, Edita Gruberová, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sergej Kopčák, Peter Mikuláš, Peter Dvorský, Pavol Bršlík, Viktor Fedotov, Emin Khachaturian, Natan Rakhlin, Thomas Sanderling, Alexander Rahbari, Tadeusz Strugala, Jiří Bělohlávek and others.

The chief conductor of the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice is Robert Jindra, and Zbyněk Müller is the main guest conductor of the orchestra.