Tue, 28. 2. 2023, 7.00 p.m.
TEREZIE FIALOVÁ (Olga Scheps)
Venue: Zlín Congress Centre | Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s. |
Our advertised programme for 28th February 2023 featured a piano recital by the eminent soloist Olga Scheps, who captivated concert-goers here in Zlín last year with her performance at the Harmonia Moraviae concert. We regret to announce, however, that Ms Scheps is not able to play in this concert as she is shortly to become a mother, which all of us will surely understand.
The concert in February will still go ahead, however, with a recital by the outstanding pianist Terezie Fialová featuring works by Leoš Janáček, Pēteris Vasks, Ludwig van Beethoven and Domenico Scarlatti.
Terezie FIALOVÁ piano
Pēteris VASKS
White Scenery (Winter) from the cycle The Seasons
Leoš JANÁČEK
Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905
Domenico SCARLATTI
Sonata in G major, K. 144
Sonata in E major, K. 380
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata Op. 10, no. 1 in C minor
Pēteris VASKS
Spring Music (Spring) from the cycle The Seasons
Terezie Fialová is an outstanding young Czech pianist and a sought-after chamber music partner to many leading soloists. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 12, and up to the age of 20 she also played the violin, establishing an international career. She graduated in piano performance at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (under Ivan Klánský) and in chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (under Niklas Schmidt). She has also won awards at international competitions in Italy, the Netherlands and Russia, and has taken part in masterclasses led by Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Radosz, Joseph Kalichstein, Valentin Erben, Markus Tomas, Emanuel Ax and others. She has performed at international festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (the Prague Spring Festival, the International Dvořák Festival in Prague, the Moravian Autumn Festival, the Janáček May Festival, the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl, Lipa Musica, the Český Krumlov International Festival, the Kutná Hora International Festival, the festival in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sarajevo Winter, Septembre Musical Vevey, Konvergencie Bratislava, Bach Before & After in Istanbul, Les Flaneries Musicales de Reims, the Arte Sacro festival in Madrid and many others).
At the Prague Spring Festival in 2019, she performed Petr Eben’s extremely challenging Piano Concerto with the Prague Symphony Orchestra under conductor Pietari Inkinen. In that same year, she made her debut as a member of the Eben Trio in the Czech premiere of eminent Danish composer Bent Sørensen’s “L'Isola della Città” Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra. She is a member of the Eben Trio along with the violinist Roman Patočka and the cellist Jiří Bárta. The trio have won the Czech Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Society Award, and the international chamber music groups’ competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. Together they have performed on major stages such as the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Gasteig in Munich, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the National Hall of Performing Arts in Beijing and the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai.
Terezie was the only Czech pianist to take part in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy 2013 in Switzerland where was invited back in 2017. Her successful debut at the international Newport Music Festival in the United States was hailed by critics as "a stunning performance and very bright future". She has participated in recording three CDs, and an album dedicated to the composer Petr Eben was rated "Recording of the Month" and "IRR Outstanding" on a British music website. She premiered the piano quartet by the English composer Edward Nesbit, and Martin Smolka’s piece "Smutek utek" for cello and piano. She has taken part in music and spoken word productions with the important Czech actors Saša Rašilov, Josef Somr and Petr Štěpánek. In 2021 she performed the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas for piano and cello together with the cellist Jiří Bárta on the Animal Music label.