The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet

Prague

14. 09. 2023 19:00

Maisel Synagogue, Maiselova 10, Prague 1

The concert of an unmissable ensemble of the Czech music scene, which was founded at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The evening will feature compositions of the Czech interwar and post-war avant-garde. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Jewish Museum's Information and Reservation Centre (Maiselova 15, Prague 1), or through the Prague Ticket Office and the Jewish Museum's website.

Performers:
 
Ondřej Hás / 1. violin
Marek Blaha / 2. violin
Matěj Kroupa / viola
Štěpán Drtina / cello
 
Programme:

Antonín Dvořák 
String Quartet No.12, Op. 96 in F Major, "American"
 
Gideon Klein 
Fantasia and Fugue
 
Pavel Haas 
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7
“From the Monkey Mountains” (“z Opičích hor”)
I. Landscape (Krajina)
II. Coach (Kočár)
III.  The Moon and I (Měsíc a já)
IV. Wild Night (Divá noc)


The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet
The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet was founded at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where each of the members studied. The quartet was originally mentored by the violinist Jiří Panocha. It is named after the composer Pavel Bořkovec, who was a distinguished professor at the academy’s music faculty between 1947 and 1967. Among his pupils were the modern Czech composers Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák, Jan Truhlář, Radim Drejsl, and Miroslav Raichl. Pavel Bořkovec composed two operas, two piano concertos, one concerto grosso, a ballet, and five string quartets. The violist Matěj Kroupa is the composer’s great-grandson. The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet focuses primarily on 20th- and 21st-century Czech music. Its main aim is not only to promote the unjustly neglected composers of Bořkovec’s generation, but also to feature ‘new’ music and to bring contemporary composers to the concert stage. The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet also has classical quartet pieces in its repertoire.

Entry: 230 CZK

Organizer: ŽMP


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