Fratelli Bilan: Garden in the Rhythm of Elegance

The talented sibling duo will bring iconic musical works to the gardens in an unconventional arrangement for vibraphone and harp. Brother and sister will thus charmingly and humbly address a wide audience.

Fratelli Bilan aka the Bilan siblings. In some families, the musical profession is inherited from father to son - in this case from father Ladislav (percussionist and music teacher) to son Ladislav Jr. and daughter Adela. This unconventional chamber group was created only recently by combining vibraphone and harp, but it is becoming very popular on the Czech music market. They will bring an unusual combination of rhythm and elegance to the Monastery Garden. Under the open sky, mostly arrangements of well-known musical works will be performed.

Artists

Adéla Bilanová – harp
Ladislav Bilan Jr. – vibraphone

Program

Lukáš Dobrodinský: Hommage á
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, Marcel Tournier: Two Romantic Preludes op. 17
Ástor Piazolla: Café 1930
Nils Rohwer: Tiento

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Jules Massnet: Meditation Thais
Philip Glass: Opening
Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane

Adéla Bilanová

She began playing the harp under the tutelage of her mother, Šárka Bilanová, and later studied at the Prague Conservatory with Lydia Härtelová and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Jana Boušková. In solo and chamber music Adéla Bilanová won several prizes in international competitions. She has participated in harp courses and was selected for the Young Talents of Olomouc concert, where she performed solo accompanied by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, and also performed several times as a soloist with the Dvořák Region Chamber Orchestra. She is a sought-after chamber and orchestral player, regularly appearing as a guest at the State Opera in Prague, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and others.

Ladislav Bilan Jr.

Already at the age of thirteen he succeeded in an audition for the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc. Ladislav Bilan Jr. joined the orchestra in 2009 and thus became its youngest ever member. He won the Talent of the Olomouc Region award twice, and from the American WCOPA competition in Los Angeles he brought home two 1st prizes and one 2nd prize. He also won the Dean’s Award of HAMU. In 2019 he successfully completed his tenure at the Orchestral Academy of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and is now a member of the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK and partly also of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is a chamber musician. As a soloist he has performed with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Prague Philharmonia and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Marimba recitals are most often held through the Circle of Friends of Music, throughout the Czech Republic.