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A good recording reveals a great deal about a soloist, but only a live performance tells the whole story. That’s why the winner of the Concertino Praga competition is decided by a live performance at the Rudolfinum. Only the immediacy of live performances, with a reliable orchestra behind the finalists and an attentive audience in front of them, can show all that lies beneath the surface. Live performances reveal the finalists’ strengths in full, and they have no chance to go back and fix mistakes. The combination of a friendly environment with healthy competition gives Concertino Praga a unique atmosphere.
And what calibre of competitors can you expect? Listen to last year's winner Adam Znamirovsky.
Winner of solo category 2023 Adam Znamirovský | Play |
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra is one of the most important contemporary Czech orchestras. From the 2022/2023 season, the Czech conductor Petr Popelka holds the position of the orchestra’s chief conductor and artistic director. Robert Jindra has been the principal guest conductor for the second year.
One of the most prominent Czech conductors of his generation, Marek Prášil is a Conductor of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and made his debut at the Prague Spring Festival in 2022. In recent years, he has enjoyed growing success on international stages.
Nora Lubbadová (14, Prague) has been playing the piano under J. Šnederflerová at the Olešská Arts Primary School since the age of four. She has participated in a number of competitions and been named the absolute winner of the Pro Bohemia, Steinway and Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte competitions. She first played with an orchestra at the age of seven and subsequently played with the Moscow Philharmonic in the final of the Nutcracker competition at the age of eleven. She was one of the faces in the film Talent and Czech Television and Television Nova have filmed numerous reports with her. During the period of the Covid pandemic, she won many competitions that were held online and received several prizes for interpretation. She won the 1st prize in the piano concerto category, the prize for the best performance of Chopin and the Grand Prix at a competition in Hong Kong. She has received the Zlatý oříšek award and has worked under the famed virtuoso Ivo Kahánek at the MenArt Foundation. Last year, she won the international Globe competition in the Netherlands and the national round with a string trio, including the prize for excellent interpretation. She has performed at the Prague Spring, Smetana’s Litomyšl, in Helsinki, Belgrade, Brussels and London. She performed Mozart’s piano concerto as a guest at the Svátky Festival. She is currently studying at the Prague Conservatory.
Anke Chen was born on New Year's Day 2011 and she commenced her music career at the age of four. Her performances of works by Scarlatti and Bach garnered the attention of listeners in just a few short months and quickly went viral on YouTube: videos of this wunderkind have garnered over five million views. She appeared on The Ellen Show twice and in Steve Harvey’s Little Big Shot in the same year, as well as on several Chinese television programs, including the Spring Festival Gala. She has already won the 3rd prize from the 15th International Volodymyr Krainev Competition for Young Pianists and the main prize from the 1st year of the Pacific Starts International Piano Competition. Anke is a resident artist with the Nanjing Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2020, she has been studying at the Institute of Musical Personalities in Nanjing, China under Dr Mutian Cui. In recent years, she has also participated in masterclasses given by Ewa Kupiec, Piotr Paleczny, Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Colin Stone.
Celina Höferlin was born in 2010 and has played the piano since she was five. In 2020, she became a student at the Pre-College Mozarteum, where she studied under Andreas Weber. Her successes include 1st place finishes in various international competitions, such as the International Feurich Competition for Piano (2019), the International Grotrian Piano Competition (2020), the International Mozart Piano Competition (2021) and the International Frederic Chopin Competition in Bacău, Romania (2021). She has had 2nd place finishes in the Steinway Piano Competition Hamburg (2017), the Piano Festival Clavis Bavaria (2020), the Young Euregio Piano Award online Edition (2021), the Bechstein Piano Competition Berlin (2022) and the International Hans-von-Bülow Competition Meiningen (2023). She has performed in prestigious concert halls throughout the world, including the Gläsner Saal, Bösendorfer Saal and the Ehrbar-Saal (all in Vienna), the Laeiszhalle (Hamburg), Steinway House (Munich), Carnegie Hall, (New York) and the Berliner Philharmoniker Chamber Hall.
Zoja Syguda was born in Poland in 2009 and she had her first violin lesson at the age of eight and a half. She has received a number of awards from renowned national and international competitions, the latest of which was the first prize at the International Georg Philipp Telemann Violin Competition and also the first prize from the Dr Josef Micka International Violin Competition. Despite her young age and the pause in concerts brought about by the Covid pandemic, Zoja has already completed a substantial number of international concert activities. Her repertoire currently includes virtuosic works by Beethoven, Wieniawski, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Ravel, Waxman and many other composers. This young musician regularly attends masterclasses at leading international violin schools, where she is perfecting her performance art.
The Rudolfinum is one of the most important Neo-Renaissance edifices in the Czech Republic. In its conception as a multi-purpose cultural centre it was quite unique in Europe at the time of its construction. Based on a joint design by two outstanding Czech architects, Josef Zítek and Josef Schultz, a magnificent building was erected serving for concerts, as a gallery, and as a museum. The grand opening on 7 February 1885 was attended by Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, in whose honour the structure was named. In 1896 the very first concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra took place in the Rudolfinum's main concert hall, under the baton of the composer Antonín Dvořák whose name was later bestowed on the hall.