Jan Mráček and Virtuosos V4+
The leading Czech violinist Jan Mráček will meet the young winners of the Virtuosos V4+ competition on one stage. They will offer an international evening full of vibrant energy, fresh interpretation and musical passion.
Artists
Jan Mráček – violin
Winners of Virtuosos V4+ 2025
(will be announced after the results of the international competition are announced)
Peter Valentovič – conductor
South Bohemia Philharmonic Orchestra
Program
first half of the concert – to be completed after the announcement of the winners of the international competition Virtuosos V4+ 2025
--- intermission ---
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 35
Jan Mráček
Since childhood he has been one of the most outstanding talents of his generation. Among the greatest achievements of violinist Jan Mráček is the victory at the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition for violinists under thirty, which is held every four years in Vienna. This success predestined him for further solo career. Jan Mráček became the youngest soloist of the Czech Choir and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also won the Classical Prague and Jiří Bělohlávek awards for the best solo performance of the year. He has performed with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian Radio Symphony, the Lappeenranta City Orchestra (Finland), the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. As a concertmaster, he has toured with the European Youth Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the St. Luis Symphony Orchestra, L’Opera National de Lorraine, the KKL Luzern Camerata Schweiz, Daejeon Philharmonic (Korea), MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Prague Philharmonia and others. He has worked with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Jakub Hrůša, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maxim Vengerov, Franz Welser-Möst, Petr Altrichter, Tomáš Brauner, Ondrej Lenárd and others.
Peter Valentovič
The conductor and pianist has enjoyed success on the world’s opera stages and concert halls. Peter Valentovič studied conducting at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Leopold Hager and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Zsolt Nagy. He was an accompanist at the Opéra Bastille and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at the Vienna State Opera. Since 2013 he has worked extensively as conductor and pianist with Edita Gruber. They have performed all over the world including Japan and China. Peter Valentovič was the chief conductor of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and is currently the chief conductor of the National Theatre Košice.
South Bohemia Philharmonic Orchestra
The only professional orchestra in the South Bohemia region, the South Bohemian Philharmonic has forty members and will begin its 45th concert season in autumn 2025. From the 2024/25 season, the South Bohemian Philharmonic has a new chief conductor, Alena Hron, the first ever female conductor in the Czech Republic. The orchestra wants to reach as wide an audience as possible with its programme, which is why, in addition to classical music, it also prepares crossover concerts with overlaps into other genres, but always while meeting the quality requirements. The South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra always wants to enthuse, entertain, delight and make the audience come back.
Castle Riding Hall
Come and enjoy a concert at the unforgettable and unique Castle Riding Hall, which is part of the Český Krumlov Castle close to the castle garden. You will fall in love with this singular building and its surroundings and you will feel as if you were in the Viennese imperial court in the 18th century. After […]
