Arti Allegre is a chamber ensemble consisting of outstanding soloists and chamber players from the Czech republic who have individual performing careers worldwide. This ensemble was founded in Prague in 2013 by its artistic director, the violinist Ondřej Lébr. Arti Allegre performs at concerts and music festivals throughout the Czech Republic, its repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the 21st century.
At the beginning of the foundation of Guarneri trio was long-time cooperation of three excellent soloists - violinist Čeněk Pavlík, violoncellist Marek Jerie a pianist Ivan Klánský. Guarneri trio is famous on Czech and international stages; it has been filling concert halls for over 20 years and is the highlight of world festivals.
An ensemble where the experience is uniquely mixed with sparkle of youth and energy. Professors of The Academy of performing arts Jiří Hlaváč and Vlastimil Mareš have joined forces with their most successful former graduates Jan Mach and Irvin Venyš, to form a clarinet quartet. Their credo is quality instead of quantity and therefore it´s only possible to hear this clarinet quartet at special occasional concerts. This formation has a wide range of repertoire from arrangements of baroque music, through classical repertoire, to jazz and latin music.
iFlautisti displays four vibrant young recorderists in a truly dynamic ensemble, challenging any preconceptions of recorder-playing by delivering inspirational repertoire with absolute imagination and creativity.
The Kalabis Trio, named after the outstanding modern Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, was founded in 2012 as a joint venture of three solo and chamber players – Ondřej Lébr, Lukáš Polák and Miroslav Sekera. During its brief life the trio has performed at several prestige concert halls and made succesful recordings for Czech Radio. The trio specializes in performing the works of Viktor Kalabis and Bohuslav Martinu as well as other Czech and international 20th century composers; and of course it has key classical and romantic piano trios in its repertoire as well. The trio uses Viktor Kalabis´ name with the kind permission of the composer´s widow, professor Zuzana Růžičková.
Baritone Daniel Klánský (born 1992) has won prizes at several
singing competitions under the guidance of his teacher, Daniel
Prokeš, culminating in being named overall winner of the Bohuslav Martinů Competition where he was awarded the Czech Radio Prize.
The clarinetist Jana Lahodná is a prize-winner of the 2008 Prague Spring Competition where she was awarded a prize for the best performance of the obligatory piece by Karel Husa as well as the Prize of the Foundation ´Artist´s Life´.
She studied at the Jan Neruda Music School in the class of prof. Jiří Krejčí and at the Prague Conservatoire under prof. Ludmila Peterková and prof Milan Polák. She graduated from the Prague Academy of Music in the class of profs. Jiří Hlaváč and Vlastimil Mareš. In 2008 she spent six months studying with prof. Justus Sanz at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid, and three weeks in November 2012 with prof. Jorge Montillo in Boston. Among her other achievements are First Prize in an international competition in Brescia in Italy and a Second Prize at the Czech Conservatoires Competition. In 2011 she was awarded the Leoš Janáček Prize. She perfoms as a soloist with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Chamber Orchestra, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, the South Bohemian Philharmonia and the Northern Philharmonia Teplice. She performs with international soloists and chamber ensembles, namely André Cazalet, Felix Renggli, Diemut Poppen, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Irina Kondratěnko, Ludmila Peterková, Jan Talich and the Zemlinsky Quartet.
Panocha Quartet was formed in 1968 at the Prague Conservatory in the class of prof. Dr. Josef Micka and soon it was clear that their success will equal them to their older predecessors – Smetana and Talich quartets, which were formed in the class of the same professor.
is a unique ensemble, who performs compositions originally written for two violins.
Petr Hanzlík (leader), Petr Jindra, Pavel Švestka, Jiří Hruška. The well-known Prague vocal quartet The Swings represents a unique and original type of musical amusement in the Czech Republic – stylish polyphonic jazz singing inspired by the golden era of swing. This coming season the quartet will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their existence on the Czech and European musical scene. The lively and amusing as well as professional and cultivated performances of the quartet offer American and Czech swing classics.