This year, the Pavel Haas Quartet will open the Dvořák Collection and the festival’s Chamber Series. One could hardly find a better ensemble to represent and serve as the curator of the longstanding project to record Antonín Dvořák’s complete chamber music. Each recording the Pavel Haas Quartet have made has won a major international award, including the Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Award, as well as many other prizes. The journal Gramophone recently listed the ensemble as one of the world’s top ten string quartets. The Pavel Haas Quartet is peerless in the Czech repertoire, but they take great pride in the awards they have earned for a recording of Franz Schubert’s most frequently performed chamber works. The festival’s Chamber Series will open with Schubert’s final String Quartet No. 15 in G Major. For the second half of the concert, the Chamber Series and the  Dvořák Collection will merge thanks to a performance and recording of Dvořák's String Quartet No. 13. It is in the same key as Schubert's quartet, but musically it sets its sights on the enchanting colours of impressionism.

This year, the Dvořák Prague Chamber Series, is inviting six top ensembles from this country and abroad. The project for performances of Antonín Dvořák’s complete string quartets will be spread over subsequent seasons. The climax will come in 2024 with the commemoration of the 120th anniversary of the death of the most popular Czech composer.