Jiří Bárta
Jiří Bárta is a leading Czech cellist. He regularly collaborates with Czech and international orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and Royal Scottish National Orchestra. During his rich career he has worked with the likes of Jiří Bělohlávek, Charles Dutoit and Maxim Shostakovich and is regularly invited to leading festivals and venues (Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Paris and others).
His recordings for Supraphon have twice been rated by Harmonie magazine as the best in their respective categories, and include critically acclaimed recordings of all Bach cello suites and Shostakovich concertos with conductor Maxim Shostakovich and the Prague Symphony, as well as both Dvořák concertos, in A major (with pianist Jan Čech) and B minor (with the Czech Philharmonic and Jiří Bělohlávek).
Bárta’s disc with Kodály’s solo sonata was awarded the “Editor’s Choice” award by the The Grammophone London magazine, and Bárta’s CD with cello concertos by Bohuslav Martinů, J. Foerster and Jan Novák, with the cooperation of the Prague Philharmonic and conductor Jakub Hrůša, was also selected for the same award. Jiří Bárta collaborated with Magdalena Kožená on her Gramophone Award-winning album “Songs” for Deutsche Grammophon.
In 2008 he co-founded the International Chamber Music Festival in Kutná Hora. In the 2014 season he was the curator of the chamber series of the Dvořák Prague Festival. He plays a newly built cello by German master Dietmar Rexhausen.
Jiří Bárta studied with Josef Chuchr and Mirko Škampa in Prague, Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne and Eleonore Schoenfeld in Los Angeles. He received the European Promotion Prize for Music in Dresden and the Rostropovich-Hammer Prize in Los Angeles.
Terezie Fialová
Terezie Fialová is one of the outstanding figures among young Czech pianists. She made her debut with an orchestra at the age of twelve, and until the age of twenty she also played the violin. A graduate of piano at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) (under Ivan Klánský) and chamber music at the College of Music and Theatre in Hamburg (under Niklas Schmidt), she has won international competitions in Italy, Holland and Russia. She performs at international festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Prague Spring, Dvořák’s Prague, Moravian Autumn, Les Flaneries de Musicales Reims, Arte sacro Madrid and many others).
At the Prague Spring Festival 2019, she performed the extremely demanding Piano Concerto by Petr Eben, in cooperation with the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen. She also made her debut in 2019 as a member of the Eben Trio in the Concerto for a Piano Trio and Orchestra “L’ Isolla della Cita” by the Danish composer Bent Sørensen. The Eben Trio is formed together with violinist Roman Patočka and cellist Jiří Bárta. The ensemble is the winner of the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society Award and won the international chamber ensemble competition in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Terezie was the only Czech pianist to participate in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy 2013 in Switzerland and was invited again in 2017. She has participated in the recording of three CDs, a record dedicated to composer Petr Eben won the “Recording of the Month” and “IRR Outstanding” awards on a British music website. She premiered a piano quartet by English composer Edward Nesbit and a piece for cello and piano “The Sadness Has Gone” by Martin Smolka. In November 2021, she released a complete recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas for piano and cello for Animal Music together with cellist Jiří Bárta.
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The interior tour is not included in the programme.
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