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Czech Chamber Music Society • Jiří Vodička
Nicolò Paganini is one of the composers celebrating a major anniversary this season (the year 2022 is 240 years since his birth). We will pay tribute to him with a programme of his music for guitar and violin played by masters of their instruments, the guitarist Pavel Steidl and the violinist Jiří Vodička.
Programme
Niccolò Paganini
Centone di Sonate, op. 64, MS 112, Vol. 1
Sonata No. 1 in A minor (8')
Centone di Sonate, op. 64, MS 112, Vol. 3
Sonata No. 13 in E major (9')
Sonata No 14 in G major (10')
Sonáty pro kytaru sólo, MS 84
Sonáta č. 12 A dur (5')
Sonáta č. 33 c moll (4')
Sonáta č. 24 G dur (3')
— Intermission —
Minuetto dedicato alla Signora Dida from Sonata in A major for solo guitar, MS 104 (2')
Theme with variations on the song "Nel cor più non mi sento" for solo violin (11')
Tercet for Violin, Cello and Guitar in D major, Op. 66, MS 69
Performers
Pavel Steidl guitar
Jiří Vodička violin
Jonáš Krejčí cello

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Performers
Jiří Vodička violin

One of the most important and sought-after Czech violinists and the concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic Jiří Vodička has excelled in a number of competitions since very early on (Kocian International Violin Competition, Prague Junior Note, the best participant at violin classes led by Václav Hudeček, among others). At the unusually early age of 14, he was admitted to the Institute for Artistic Studies at the University of Ostrava, where he studied under the renowned pedagogue Zdeněk Gola. He graduated in 2007 with a master’s degree. His success continued as an adult, for example winning first and second prizes at the world-famous competition Young Concert Artists (2008) held in Leipzig and New York.
He has made solo appearances not only with Czech orchestras like the Prague Philharmonia or the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, but also with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia, and the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra. His professional activities are of greater breadth, however. In 2014, he recorded his debut solo album “Violino Solo” on the Supraphon label, and crossover fans can hear him on his worldwide Vivaldianno tour. He has performed chamber music with the outstanding Czech pianists Martin Kasík, Ivo Kahánek, Ivan Klánský, David Mareček, and Miroslav Sekera. He regularly takes part at famous festivals, such as the Prague Spring, Janacek’s May, Grand festival of China and Choriner Musiksommer. He was a member of the Smetana Trio from 2012 to 2018; in 2020 he founded the Piano Trio of the Czech Philharmonic, with which he won the Vienna International Competition in 2021. Many of the concerts of the “Czech Paganini”, as Vodička is sometimes called because of his extraordinary technical skill, have been recorded by Czech Television, Czech Radio, or the German broadcasting company ARD. Besides all of that he teaches at the University of Ostrava.
He plays Italian violin made by Joseph Gagliano in 1767 which he received for long-term use from the Czech Philharmonic’s former chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek.
Pavel Steidl guitar
Jonáš Krejčí cello