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The Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava has prepared three concerts this year featuring young artists who successfully passed the orchestra’s talent competition. The first of these takes place tomorrow, Thursday, January 26, featuring harpist Martin Sadílek, clarinetists Anna Sysová and Marek Švejkar, violinist Arnau Petřivalský, and cellist David Pěruška. They will perform works by masters of Czech Classicism under the baton of Adam Sedlický. The concert will be held at the Vesmír cinema/concert hall, where the public is also invited to attend the final dress rehearsal at 10:00 AM.
"The young soloists, whom we select annually through our competition, choose the pieces they wish to perform with a full symphony orchestra. This 'Rising Stars' concert is also the first for which we are opening the final rehearsal to the public," added Jan Žemla, Director of the Janáček Philharmonic. The orchestra will also offer public rehearsals for otherwise sold-out performances, such as Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique. "It confirms once again that audience demand is growing and that we would have no trouble filling a larger hall," Žemla concluded.
The program features significant composers of the Classical era. Jan Křtitel Krumpholz was a Czech harpist and composer who studied in Paris and worked in Vienna; he composed his Harp Concerto in 1778 and premiered it himself. František Vincenc Kramář (Franz Krommer), inspired by Mozart and Beethoven, always placed high demands on performers, as evidenced by his Concerto for Two Clarinets and Orchestra. Tchaikovsky’s Mélodie mélancolique is one of his shorter works, yet it remains interpretively challenging, much like his Valse-Scherzo for violin and orchestra (1877), which demands great technical skill. The evening will conclude with Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D Major, composed in 1783.
