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Tuesday, September 10, 2024, 6.00 pm
Soirée at the Bořislavka Centre

Ticket prices

200 Kč

Programme

Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73Toshiro Mayuzumi: BunrakuJohannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38

No less than three kinds of performers are required for Japanese bunraku puppet theatre: the narrator, the shamisen player, and the puppeteers. Music inspired by that colourful and entertaining spectacle cries out to be part of the first afternoon concert at the Bořislavka Centre. Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) is ideally suited for this informal event, where there is also room for a bit of seriousness in a Sonata by Johannes Brahms. Japanese cellist Sakura Toba is a protégée and pupil of one of today’s leading cello teachers, Jens Peter Maintz, and with her piano accompanist, also from Japan, she will prove that today one cannot differentiate and categorise interpretation on the basis of ingrained stereotypes about the cultures of the East and West. 

Sakura Toba – Aspen Online ConcertPlay
  • Dress code: casual
  • End of concert: 6.50 pm

Artists

Sakura Toba

Sakura Toba was born into a family of professional musicians in Vienna, Austria, in 2005.

In 2018, she won a gold medal at the 18th Izuminomori Junior Cello Competition in Japan, and a bronze medal at the 19th International “Nutcracker” Televised Contest for Young Musicians, held in Moscow, Russia.

Sakura gave her first solo recital in March 2019. In October of that year, she performed at Suntory Hall with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ryusuke Numajiri, as soloist in Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme” . Since then she has performed with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Yokohama Sinfonietta, Mt. Fuji Philharmonic Orchestra, working with conductors Koichiro Harada, Naoto Otomo, Takeshi Ooi, Kazuki Yamada, and Gen Ohta. She has also appeared at Tokyo Spring Festival and many other recital, and in 2020 was heard on NHK-FM’s Classical Program "Recital Passio.” 

Sakura Toba - cello

Naoko Sonoda

Japanese-born pianist Naoko Sonoda is a prize-winner of several international piano and chamber music competitions, including those in Argento and Trieste (Italy), as well as the Łódź Competition (Poland). Solo and chamber music concert invitations have taken her throughout Europe, Asia, US and South America and to festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Verbier Festival. Chamber music partners include Santiago Cañón Valencia, Hartmut Rohde, Danjulo Ishizaka, Jens-Peter Maintz, and Andrei Ionita. She has performed with such renowned orchestras as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and has been heard in world-class venues, most notably the Berliner Philharmonie in Germany, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall in St.Petersburg, Wigmore hall in London, Teatro Mayor in Bogota and Carnegie Hall in NY.

Naoko Sonoda - piano

Artium by KKCG, Bořislavka Centre

Artium by KKCG is a publicly accessible space for art of all genres, breathing artistic life into Bořislavka and enriching the cultural offerings in Prague 6 and the capital more generally. Artium regularly holds exhibitions, concerts, and other cultural events, and the unconventional space allows visitors to explore art across different genres, often intertwined to create a unique experience. During this year’s Dvořák Prague International Music Festival’s concerts at Artium, spectators can also enjoy an extensive exhibition of photographic installations by Jarmila Štuková titled "Us and the Others.

The concerts presented here as part of the Dvořák Prague Festival are organized for a good cause, with all proceeds supporting talented, young musicians.