Thu, 23. 11. 2017, 7:00 p.m.
SLAVONIC DANCES
Venue: Zlín Congress Centre | Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s. |
P. Chmela: Slavnostní
F. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
A. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, selection
Soloist: Marek Kozák, piano
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conductor: Jiří Rožeň
Tonight's soloist is the young Czech pianist Marek Kozák, winner of the Prague Spring competition and student at the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Prague under Professor Ivan Klánský.
Jiří Rožeň has conducted orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio
France, and others.
After the great success of his Moravian Duets, Antonín Dvořák was asked by a publisher to write a cycle of compositions for four-handed piano in a similar style. This is how the first series of Slavonic Dances came to be written in a very short time, and they were quickly worked into orchestral form.
Petr Chmela is known not only as founder of the Tescoma kitchenware production company, but also as an enthusiastic musician and composer, which is shown by his Slavnostní overture.