The Zoltan Kodaly Chorus of Galanta was founded in the autumn of 1956. The founders asked Tibor Ag to become the leader of the choir. It was Zoltan Kodaly himself who guided the choir in its first steps and also agreed to lend it his name and he followed the choir's activity until the end of his life.

From 1962 the choir ceased existing for six years and re-started its activity for the festival of Slovakia's Hungarian choral movement, the 'Kodaly Days'. For the first 'Kodaly Days' in 1969, the Zoltan Kodaly Chorus was already operating and it has been the only Hungarian choir that has actively taken part in all of these three-yearly events since then.

The founding conductor, Tibor Ag, led the choir until 1979 then Zsuzsanna Csemez took over the conducting for three years. From 1982 up to today Monika Jozsa has been the leading conductor of the choir.

The present repertoire of the choir consists of more than two hours of concert programming. This includes choral works from every era, but mainly the 20th century body of Hungarian choral work. The choir has sung in eleven languages so far, namely in Latin, Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew.

During the existence of the Zoltan Kodaly Chorus the choir, apart from several worthwhile home performances, has successfully represented the town of Galanta abroad, in Hungary, Germany, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy, Israel and France.