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Frantisek Novotny / Ewald
Danel / Mauro Iurato/ Pavel Hula / Bohumil Smejkal
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Frantisek Novotny
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 Czech violinist FrantiseK Novotny (b. 1964) studied with Bohumil Kotmel, Sr. at the Brno Conservatory, in the class of Bohumil Smejkal at the Janacek Academy of Music, and with the prominent virtuoso players and teachers, Zakhar Bron and Viktor Tretyakov. He has to his credit victories, laureateships and special mentions from over twenty competitions (including among others the Kocian Competition, Concertino Praga, the Beethoven Competition in Hradec nad Moravici, the Sevcik Competition in Pisek, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Prague Spring Festival Competition, the Premio Paganini in Genoa, and the International Competition in Tokyo). He is a holder of the Italian Radio and Television Company RAI Award and of the Henryk Wieniawski Medal. |
He has built up an exceptionally extensive repertoire (including
over fifty compositions with orchestra) which he performs with leading Czech
and international symphony orchestras, appearing on major European concert
platforms (in Armenia, Belgium, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Poland,
Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and United Kingdom),
as well as in Japan (Suntory Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Izumi Hall) and the
U.S.A. (Carnegie Hall). He devotes part of his time to presenting unorthodox
violin compositions, performing many of them in Czech and world premieres
(J. Novak, A. Copland, L. Bernstein, E.W. Korngold, M. Rozsa, S. Barber,
O. Messiaen, A.G. Holland, J. Hitt, and others). As a studio artist, he
has been recording for both Czech and international labels, as well as working
with various radio and television companies (including Czech Radio, WNYC
in New York, WAMC in Albany, and NHK in Japan). Apart from his career as
a soloist, he is professor of violin at the Janacek Academy of Music, and
regularly teaches at various master classes in the Czech Republic, Japan,
and the U.S.A. He has worked with the conductor Jiri Belohlavek on numerous
concert productions, and on a set of CDs featuring the complete works of
Antonin Dvorak for violin and orchestra. Brahms' Violin Concerto and Triple
Concerto (with pianist Rumi Itoh and cellist Michal Kanka.
) http://www.frantiseknovotny.com |
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Pavel Hula won two editions
of the Kocian Violin Competition and became laureate of Czch Radio's Concertino
Praga international contest in the piano trio category. He did his studies
in the class of Professor M. Hlounova at the Academy of Music, and received
further education in the field of chamber music from Professor Antonin
Kohout and at Vladimir Malinin's master courses in Weimar. Pavel Hula
is a versatile violinist, successfully combining the twin careers of soloist
snd chamber player. In the former capacity, he has worked with the Czech
Republic's leading orchestras, in cluding the Czech Philharmonic under
Vaclav Neumann. He currently works with organist Jirina Pokarna, pianist
Petr Jirikovsky, and with his daughter Lucie Hulova, a violinist. Apart
from that, he appears in tandem with the the Czech Philharmonic's leader
Bohumil Kotmel, as Due Virtuosi. He has made solo appearances in a number
of European countries, and has made several solo radio recordings, as
well as a CD for Supraphon, entitled Due Virtuosi. His repertoire embraces
all periods and styles. Since 1975 Pavel Hula has been the leader of the
Kocian Quartet, with which he has appeared in over 2500 concerts in twenty-eight
countries and has recorded two dozen CDs for Nippon Columbia, Praga digitals
and other labels.
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Bohumil Smejkal
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 When Bohumil Smejkal graduated from the conservatory in 1958, and from the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in 1963, it was clear that he was a violinist with a great furture. He showed it especially, as the Primarius of the Janacek Quartet, from 1973 until 1993. For two periods he held the Deanship of Music at formed BROLN (Brno Radio Orchestra of Folk Music) for a one week period which eventually extended to 17 years. His exceptional musical adaptability has become one of the dominant personalities in presenting traditional folk music to contemporary listeners. During the years 1962 to 1973 Bohumil Smejkal headed BROLN at numerous concerts at home as in 20 countries around the world, and sinse 1967 he was its artistic leader. He has enriched the orchestral repertoire with many arrangements by faithful transcriptions of folk music, from over "populars" to the more demanding styles, and in so doing he has produced more than one thousand recordings with the orchestra. Janacek Quartet 1st Violin Bohumil Smejkal →Message |
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