The Managing Director of the National Philharmonic, Géza Kovács, who fulfils the post of the President of the Association of Hungarian Symphonic Orchestras, has been elected as Vice-President of PEARLE, the European Association Performing Arts. The Association represents the interests of more than 5000 theatres, theatre production companies, orchestras and music ensembles, opera houses, ballet and dance companies, festivals, producers, comedy, varieté, circus and other organisations. Géza Kovács has been the member of the Executive Committee of PEARLE since 2000 and he was elected Co-president in 2014.