The Association

THE PANNON MUSIC ASSOCIATION was founded in autumn, 2015.

Conductor Tamás Schóber and his choir recieved an invitation to Carnegie Hall, New York in april, 2015. Manhattan Concert Productions provided a unique opportunity for the conductor and the choir to introduce and also give a taste of it’s repertoire to the American audience.  The implementation of this far-reaching plan required to overcome the narrow school-framework and choose an independent form of functioning.

After a thorough brainstorming it was quite easy to find partners to animate this noble cause. The conductor’s colleagues, the leaders and artists of Zsolnay Heritage Center, events coordinators, colleagues, studtents, reputbable lawyers and finances specialists of the University of Pécs, companies and public enterprises offered great help with establishing PANNON MUSIC ASSOCIATION. The organization was started immediately.

Hearings were held, where the choir expanded week by week. Soon it turned out that there was great demand for this kind of community activity, as the members of the choir came from 11 schools of the city. We had no doubt what road we should go along. Our Association was lauched by the sadly reduced number of music classes and the hardly surviving school choirs.  We are guided by the educational methodology developed Zoltán Kodály, which we are intended to use with the demands of the 21st century in mind. We would like to see singing communities, people playing music around us where music is a value rather than some kind of „acustic furniture” sorrounding us.

Where singing is pleasure and playing music is a genuine source of beauty. We wish to present the personality-developing influence and its function of elevating spirit to many young people. We would like to see the further development of these communities having a positive effect on the society of the community of our city presenting the opportunity for useful and sensible way of spendig freetime.

We would like the world-famous Hungarian choir music to survive and we wish to present its values both in Hungary and abroad. We are also open for presenting contemporary music and pieces of other eras and various music genres with specia regard to choir music. Our utmost aim is to create cultural values, preserve them and transfer them to the upgrowing generation.

This is the mission of our Association, this was the reason why it came into existance and this is the noble cause we would like to serve.