Prague Music Performance | Institute & Festival 2013

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We regret to announce that our festival & institute has been moved to next year. Thank you for your understanding. Prague Music Performance

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pmpif 2011

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pmpif 2011

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Ivan Moravec

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Long recognized as one of the century’s great pianists, Ivan Moravec’s performances and recordings alike have prompted critics in search of parallels to call up such names as Gieseking and Richter. Yet his musicianship, while it challenges comparison with these masters, is riveting and penetratingly individual in style. Mr. Moravec...

chamber music / masterclass / piano

Menahem Pressler

by pmpif on Oct 28, 2011 • Comments Closed

Artist-in-Residence. Menahem Pressler, founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, has established himself among the world’s most distinguished and honored musicians, with a career that spans over five decades. Now in his 86th year, he continues to captivate audiences throughout the world as performer and pedagogue, performing solo...

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pmpif 2011

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Antonio Meneses

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Born in Recife, Brazil in 1957 into a family of musicians, Antonio Meneses began his cello studies at the age of ten. At the age of 16, he met the famous Italian cellist Antonio Janigro and was asked to join Janigro’s classes in Düseldorf and later in Stuttgart. In 1977,...

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pmpif 2011

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Zenon Fishbein

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Founder Zenon Fishbein has been part of the Manhattan School of Music piano faculty since 1963. Born in Argentina, from Russian parents, he made his official debut to the general acclaim of the press at thirteen. As a recipient of a fellowship from the Argentinian government he traveled to Rome,...

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pmpif 2011

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Ivan Ženatý

by pmpif on Oct 22, 2011 • Comments Closed

Music critics, fellow musicians and audiences have recently been calling Ivan Ženatý the most important Czech violinist. Ivan Ženatý is appearing repeatedly as a guest artist with all of the orchestras in his homeland (primarily with the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra) as...

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pmpif 2011

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Norbert Heller

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Norbert Heller was born in the town of Český Těšín of the Czech Republic. There he made his first steps as a pianist. At the age of 15, he was accepted to the class of Professor Marta Toader at the Conservatory in Ostrava. As a student, he gave numerous public...

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pmpif 2011

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Eleanor Valkenburg

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Eleanor Valkenburg, soprano, has achieved worldwide recognition as a chamber musician, soloist, and voice teacher/voice therapist. Ms Valkenburg has performed in some of the most prestigious festivals and chamber music series including the Bergen Festival, the Istanbul International Music Festival, the Sarajevo Festival, L’ Octobre Festival du Carthage, the Martinu...

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pmpif 2011

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Ludovit Kanta

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Slovakians premier cellist Ludovit Kanta was born in Bratislava. He studied at Konzervatorium Bratislava under Professor Gustav Vecerny, and at Academy of Music Arts Praha under Professor Alexander Vectomov, member of the original Czech Trio. In 1977, he won the first prize in the Hradec Opava Beethoven Competition and in...

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Petr Maceček

by pmpif on Oct 14, 2011 • Comments Closed

Violinist Petr Maceček is member of world-renowned Talich Quartet. The Talich Quartet performs to great acclaim in Europe, Japan North and South America. They are regularly invited to prestigious chamber music festivals and venues such as Carnegie hall, Paris Champs-Ellysses, Salle Gaveau, Lyon, London’s Wigmore hall, the Pablo Casals Festival...

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Ivan Klánský

by pmpif on Oct 14, 2011 • Comments Closed

As a laureate of some of the most prestigious international competitions (Bolzano 1967, Naples 1968, Bach Competition Leipzig 1968, Warsaw 1970, Barcelona 1970, Fort Worth, Texas 1973, Santander 1976), he became a much sought after soloist and chamber musician while still a student at Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts. Since...

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Michal Kaňka

by pmpif on Oct 10, 2011 • Comments Closed

Born in Prague in 1960, Michal Kaňka took up the cello under leadership of Mirko Škampa at the age of seven. Later, he studied in the Prague Conservatory under prof. Viktor Moučka (cellist of the famous Vlach string quartet). During his studies at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts – under...

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Josef Špaček

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Josef Špaček ranks among the foremost representatives of today’s young violin generation. Since an early age, Mr. Špaček has performed at many major concerts and festivals throughout his native Czech Republic and abroad in Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, China, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States....

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PMPIF 2011

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Welcome to Prague Music Performance Festival & Institute An intensive program for solo and chamber instrumental performance July 1 – 22, 2011

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pmpif 2010

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pmpif 2010

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pmpif 2010

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Jiří Bárta

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Jiří Bárta entered the music scene at the turn of the 1990s to work his way up to the company of the international cellist ligue. He undertook studies in Prague with Josef Chuchro and Mirko Škampa, and in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikov. He then gained additional experience at the Piatigorsky...

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pmpif 2010

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Martin Ballý

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Czech pianist and teacher, Martin Ballý has performed throughout the Europe as a recitalist and chamber musician. He studied with Erna Grünfeld at Prague Conservatory. He graduated from Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he studied with Czech legendary pianist Josef Palenicek. He also studied a chamber music with members...

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Jan Simon

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Jan Simon began to play the piano at the age of seven under the guidance of his father, composer and conductor Ladislav Simon. Jan Simon studied at the Prague Academy of Music with Russian teacher Valentina Kameníková who was a former student of Gustav Neuhaus. After having graduation he continued...

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Karel Košárek

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Karel Košárek has won a number of international piano competitions. In 1990 he received First Prize in the Smetana Piano Competition in Hradec Králové and became laureate of the International F. P. Neglia Competition in Enna, Italy. This success was followed by the victory in the International Young Artist Competition...

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Miroslav Sekera

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Miroslav Sekera ranks among the preeminent members of the young generation of Czech pianists. His exceptional talent was first spotted at the early age of three years by the distinguished educator, Professor Zdena Janžurová. Miroslav was a child prodigy who was ready to take up at that tender age, along...

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Jan Starý

by pmpif on Jan 2, 2011 • Comments Closed

Jan Stary, Ph.D. Director, Partnerships and Relations Jan Stary has Ph.D. in Czech and English Philology and American Studies from Charles University, Prague. He worked as Assistant Professor at the English Department of the School of Arts, Charles University in Prague, later also as a translator and interpreter for Czech...

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pmpif 2010

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faculty / festival directors / piano

Jan Bartoš

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Jan Bartos is Czech pianist and teacher. He is a first-prize winner of many international competitions and awards, including 2009 Mieczyslaw Munz Competition in New York, 2009 American Protégé International Competition in New York, 2008 Zaslavsky-Koch Piano Competition in New York, 2006 Rotary Club International Competition in Germany and 1999...

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