Gabriele Strata

Piano

Hailed as “a brilliant talent with extraordinary sensitivity and superb technique”, Gabriele Strata (1999) has established himself as one of the leading Italian pianists of his generation. In 2018 Gabriele won First Prize at the XXXV Premio Venezia, the most prestigious Italian piano competition where he was awarded the Plaque of the President of the Italian Republic and the Medal of the Italian Senate. The Italian government previously recognized his artistic achievements in 2016 when he was awarded the Medal of the Italian Parliament.

Gabriele regularly performs in Italy, Europe and the US. His 2021-2022 includes debut concerto appearances in the Berlin Philharmonie with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra; in Barbican Centre (London) with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen (China) with the Young Musician European Orchestra, and in Venice with the Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice. He has given recitals in prominent concert halls including Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava and Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, as well as venues in Brussels, Florence, Rotterdam, Portland (OR), Verona, Bologna, Treviso, Padova.

Jan Brabec

Klarinette

Jan Brabec started his music studies in Ledeč nad Sázavou at Miroslav Hradecký, graduated from the Conservatoire in Teplice at Miroslav Maleček and from HAMU in Prague under the leadership of prof. Vlastimil Mareš. His deep desire to go ahead and experience new things lead him through interpretative courses of personalities such as M. Arrignon, M. Lethiec, M. Raison, M. Borgue and brought him a number of prizes such as 1st prize at the Clarinet Competition in Chomutov, the prize at Prague Spring Competition in 1996, etc.

Since 1997 he has been working as a member of the clarinet section of the PKF. From 2008 to 2014 we could hear his clarinet solos at the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2014 he became a member of the Czech Philharmonic. He also regularly performs with other chamber ensembles as an Actaeon trio, Aloe trio, Prague Modern. Baborak Ensemble, Czech Sinfonietta. His preciseness and sense of detail is reflected not only in his approach to music but also in his interest of audio technique and collecting vinyl records and old films.

Denisa Neubarthová

Mezzo-soprano

Denisa Neubarthová is from a very musical family.
Educational way goes from Conservatory Teplice to master class of Prof. Slavícková to Prague.
As a concert soloist she performs in a lot of european metropolis. She was succesfull by many productions: f.e. Viennese public opera production in operetta „Viennese blood“ (Johann Strauss) in German Theatre in Munich.
She was invited as soloist for different orchestra-tours with compositions of B. Britten, A. Dvorak, G. Mahler, W.A.Mozart and A. Zemlinsky.
She sang with world-known René Kollo in 9 .symphony  of L.v. Beethoven (1997 -Tonhalle in Zurich).
In 1999 - 2000  she interpreted the solo parts from 2. and 3. symphony  of Gustav Mahler with Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra in Debrecen.
Summer 2001 she got very good commendatory critique in swiss press: Czech mezzosopranist is a big mistress in her domain.
In october 2001 she were invited to Switzerland again, where she performed in two concerts in Fribourg and Gruyeres. Programm: Altrapsodie for alto, male choir and orchestra (Johannes Brahms).
Her repertoir contains oratorios and liturgy pieces too.
Big passion of her became the recital.
In  2003/04 - 2004/05 she was invited to recitals in Germany and France and to live show in television France 3  (pieces from B. Britten and L. Janácek).
2006/07 recitals in Germany, France and Czech Republique.

Perrine Madoeuf

Soprano

Born in Lyon, Perrine Madoeuf pursued her musical education at the Conservatoire and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon before completing her studies as a member of the De Vlaamse Opera Studio in Antwerp.

WETTBEWERBE / CONCOURS

Concours international des pays catalans, Barcelone -
Premier prix Concours international de Gascogne - Prix Espoir
Concours international Lauri Volpi, Rome - finalist
Concours international de Bourgogne - finalist
Armel Opera competition, Hongrie, semifinalist 2011/2012

Pavla Trefná

Flöte

Ausbildung

Konservatorium in Budweis – Mgr. Petr Reis ( 1992 - 1998)
Südböhmische Universität – Mgr. Jana Zavičáková (1998 - 2001)

Wettbewerbe

Internationaler Rundfunkwettbewerb Concertino Praga 1993 – 1. Platz National,
1. Platz International.

Meisterkurse

Prof. František Malotín – Konservatorium Prag, Mgr. Václav Kunt – JAMU Brünn, 
Brigitte Buxtorf – Schweiz

Zusammenarbeit mit Orchestern

Staatsoper Prag, Philharmoniker Prag, Mozart Oper Prag, Tschechische Kammerphilharmonie, Smetana Philharmoniker Prag, Südböhmisches Theater Budweis

Mit folgenden Orchestern ist sie als Solistin aufgetreten:
Südböhmische Kammerphilharmonie, Südböhmische Kammersolisten.

Seit kurzer Zeit ist sie auch Mitglied des Quintetts der Smetana Philharmoniker Prag.

Aleš Hejcman

Clarinet

Aleš Hejcman graduated at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. During his studies, he was awarded with several prestigious national and international awards. He took part in many Interpretation Master Classes and also studied at the Conservatory in Lugano, Switzerland.
He is an anchored orchestral and soloist. In the years 2009 – 2019 he was the first clarinetist of the F. X. Šalda Theater in Liberec. As a member of the orchestra, he also worked with other ensembles such as the B. Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra or the Prague Chamber Orchestra. In the past, Aleš Hejcman has performed as a soloist on concert stages in Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. His performance of world works of clarinet literature has been praised several times by professional critics.

Jana Vonasková-Nováková

Violin

Born into a musical family in the Czech Republic in 1979, Jana studied at the Prague Conservatoire and in 2000 won the Talent of the Year Competition. This led directly to a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where she studied with Professor Felix Andrievsky, graduating in 2005.  From 2001 Jana was an Orpheus Scholar and from 2004 a Scholar, supported by a Yehudi Menuhin Award at the RCM. 
A top prize-winner at major international competitions, in 2000 Jana won first prize at the International Competition for Young Violinists K.Lipinski/H. Wieniawski held in Lublin, Poland and in 2001 received the European Prize in Strasbourg.
Jana has performed extensively in Europe - in the Czech and Slovak Republics, in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Norway, Poland and Belarus. As a concerto soloist she has appeared with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jirí Belohlávek, the Belgian National Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, and on tour with the distinguished Czech violinist Václav Hudecek.  She is currently a member of the Smetana Piano Trio with whom she recently toured Japan.
Since being selected for representation by YCAT in 2002, Jana has appeared at major venues and festivals throughout the UK including Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, St. David’s Hall Cardiff, Harewood House, the Chester, Leamington, Gower, King’s Lynn, Mecklenburg and Prague Spring Festivals.  In 2004 she made her BBC Radio 3 broadcast from the Bath Festival.  Plans for the 2005/06 season include a YCAT Evening at Wigmore Hall on 31st October and recordings for the Supraphon label with the Smetana Piano Trio.

Jana Brožková

Oboe

Jana Brožková is an oboe player who today belongs among the most prominent Czech performers. She initially began her playing under the guidance of her father and continued with considerabsuccess during her studies at Prague.
She won an absolute success and a special award at the Europäischen Musikpreis Zürich 1988.
She took the third prize at the Prague Spring Competition in 1991 and the list of her successes culminates in capturing first prize at the IDRS  Gillet Competition 1997 at Evanston, Ill., USA.

She has recorded the most oboe concerts  with Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, where she has held the position of solo oboist. Now she has the same position as a member of Czech Philharmony.

Jana Brožková concentrates intensively on chamber music. She performs with Aflatus Quintet, a woodwind quintet witch has captured the prestigious first prize at the competition ARD Munchen in 1997.
She also has been teaching at the Musical Faculty of the  Academy of Performing  Arts in Prague.

Václav Vonášek

Bassoon

Václav Vonášek  (*6.8.1980) comes from Blatná in South Bohemia. He began playing the recorder at the age of six.
Two years later he changed to the clarinet while at music school. At the Conservatoire in Plzen (1994) he studied the bassoon with Ladislav Šmídl and Matouš Křivánek and graduated in 1999. During this time he performed as a soloist with the Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Mariánské Lázně.

Václav won 2nd prize at the Czech Conservatoire Competition in Ostrava in 1997.
Since 1999 Vaclav has studied at the Prague Academy of Music, with
Professors František Herman and Jiří Seidl.
In 2001 he participated in the Pacem in Terris International wind instruments competition in Bayreuth, reaching the final round.
Also in 2001 he took a part in a masterclass in Semmering (Austria) and won, as a member of a bassoon trio, the Antonín Rejcha
Prize. He also performed on Austrian ORF.
In November 2001 he performed as a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy during the orchestra's concert tour of the Far East.

His victory in the Czech-Slovak competition "TALENT ROKU 2002" earned him a yearlong visiting scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Andrea de Flammineis and Martin Gatt. It was also there that Václav was picked as the soloist in a performance of Weber's Bassoon Concerto with the College's Orchestra. He recorded the Weber concerto for Czech Radio, with the Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He won second prize at the 2002 Prague Spring International Competition, along with a prize awarded in the same contest by the Czech Music Fund, for the best performance of a contemporary Czech composition.
In May 2003 he was selected as a finalist in the Young Concert Artists Trust competition in London.

Václav has performed as a soloist in the Smetana Hall, the Dvořák Hall and Suk Hall in Prague and in the Wigmore Hall in London.
In 2003 he appeared at the Prague Spring Festival, the Janáček Festival Ostrava, the Bratislava Music Festival, the International meeting of young musicians Ticino Musica in Switzerland, at the Cheltenham and Leamington Festivals in the UK and a others.

In July 2004 he won first prize at the Gillet-Fox Bassoon Competition (organised by the International Double Reed Society) which took place in Melbourne, Australia.

Boris Bloch

Piano

He was born in Odessa and studied in Moskow with Dmitri Bashkirow and Tatjana Nikolaewa .
In 1973 he participated successfully at international piano contests .
Since 1985 he is professor for piano in Essen (Germany).

In 1990  he was honored with the Grand Prix International du Disque  Liszt.
For the production of the complete piano works of Modest Mussorgsky, he
was awarded  with the price "Excellence Disque".

He also received the Golden Needle of Honour  of the International Liszt Society , Vienna and had great responses for Liszt piano soirées and the interpretation of  Russian piano music .
His performance of  Busonis piano concert with Christoph Eschenbach was recorded live.
Boris Bloch also appeared in Russian television.

He receives many invitations to summer courses and festivals , for example the Rheingauer music festival and at the theater of the "Ermitage" in St. Petersburg .

Currently , he is also a juror at international piano contests .

Michel Roublot

Flöte

Jahrgang 1962, studierte Flöte, Kammermusik und Musiktheorie am Konservatorium in Metz  sowie  in Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieur de Musique, Paris) bei Christian Lardé, Jean-Pierre Rampal und Marcel Moyse. 

Erster überregionaler Preis für Flöte & Kammermusik (Westfrankreich).

Erster Preis für Soloflöte (Paris). 

Erster Preis Radio-France. 

Stipendium der Schlumberger-Stiftung.

Ab 1990 Tätigkeit als Soloflötist und zur Leitung von Meisterkursen beauftragt.

Mehrere Konzertreisen nach  Russland, Kanada, Belgien und Italien. 

Seit  2000  Auftritte in Deutschland mit dem  Quintett « Sans Frontière ».

Mitbegründer des Lazaro-Ensembles, Kammermusik, gegründet 2002 Radioauftritte in Frankreich  „ RADIO France“ und Russland. 

CD- Aufnahme  « Variations, art & virtuosité ».

Filmmusik :   Flötensolo   in    «  Das 5. Element ».  

Parallel Arbeit als Flötenlehrer in Metz; ab 1996 auch in Pirmasens (Kreismusikschule) und Landau (Universität).

M. Roublot wird am 14. März 2008 zusammen mit dem Smetana Philharmonic Orchestra Prague und anderen Solisten in Paris-Gagny auftreten.