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New Concert Master of the Czech Philharmonic

In September, the current concert master of the Prague Philharmonia (PKF), Jan Fišer, will take his place next to Jan Mráček and Jiří Vodička as concert master of the Czech

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Embracing the Unknown: Dance and Performance in the Light of Critical Thought Offered by Dancetopia 2025 in Kounice

This is an open-ended conversation with American artists and dance theorists Nora Thompson and Chloë Engel, recorded during the Dancetopia 2025 festival in the forest setting of Kounice. The gathering

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Start Your Year With Czech Music!

Don't miss these streamed concerts of Czech music on January 1st! But which to choose... The New Years Concert of the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Tomáš Netopil, will stream live

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Centenary of the legendary Czech composer Ilja Hurník: “Musical idea was a priority for him”, says his son Lukáš

25 November 2022 marked the centenary of the birth of composer, pianist and teacher Ilya Hurnik. Together with the jubilant's son Lukáš we tried to look "behind" the dictionary entry

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This isn’t about being liked. It’s about playing something that matters, says Miroslav Beinhauer

Born in Ostrava, pianist Miroslav Beinhauer (1993) is becoming an increasingly sought-after interpreter of contemporary music. This April, he released the complete quarter-tone works for solo piano by Alois Hába

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