Czech Chamber Music Society • Matoušek, Sekera
The Czech Chamber Music Society’s series of matinee concerts launches with the proven combination of violin and piano. Bohuslav Matoušek—renowned soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue—will present shorter pieces by his namesake Bohuslav Martinů, alongside sonatas by Martinů’s close friends Antonín Dvořák and Johannes Brahms. Dvořák’s contribution is a particular rarity: the only surviving work he ever labelled a sonata.
Programme
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57 (23')
Bohuslav Martinů
Intermezzo (four pieces for pro violin and piano), H 261 (10')
Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 (22')
Performers
Bohuslav Matoušek violin
Miroslav Sekera
piano
Miroslav Sekera, winner of the 2002 Johannes Brahms International Competition in Portschach, Austria, had already won prizes at many important competitions in this country and abroad (F. Chopin International Competition in Mariánské Lázně, YAMAHA Scholarship Competition, International Piano Competition in Gaillard, France). In 2016 he won a prize from the “Salon de Virtuosi” music society in New York.
He has two solo CDs to his credit, which have won awards on the website Pizzicato.lu; for Joseph Summer, a contemporary composer from Boston, he has recorded seven more CDs in the USA. He collaborates with Czech Radio and with leading Czech orchestras and festivals, including a solo recital at the Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival at the Rudolfinum. He makes guest appearances abroad, especially in Japan and the USA.
He performs regularly with violinist Josef Špaček, mezzo-soprano Dagmar Pecková, and French horn player Radek Baborák.
He began playing piano at age three and graduated from the Prague Conservatoire (Eva Boguniová and Martin Ballý) and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Miroslav Langer).
Dates and tickets
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