7. 4. 2014
Talentinum 2014
TALENTINUM 2014
It's difficult to believe that this spring sees the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic hosting the Talentinum international music festival for the 22nd time. This idea of bringing together young artists to make music with a professional orchestra is one which has always breathed new life and drama into the concert season, and of this year's eight festival concerts, six will take place in the evening in Zlín, Uherské Hradiště, Luhačovice and Kroměříž, and two more in the morning in Uherské Hradiště catering for our younger audiences.
A highlight of these concerts is the voice of the baritone Adam Plachetka who, despite his young age, has already accrued a number of significant awards and is making a name for himself among the elite singers both here in Europe and on the international stage. This year he has been invited to perform at La Scala in Milan, and next year at the New York Metropolitan Opera. A soloist at the Vienna State Opera, he has also sung at the Berlin German State Opera, London's Royal Opera House, and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Appropriately enough in this Year of Czech Music, his concert choices feature emblematic works by Czech composers, including two works by Antonín Dvořák in the first half of the concert: his Biblical Songs and the Dramatic Overture, followed by arias from operas by Bedřich Smetana - Libuše, The Secret, Dalibor and The Devil's Wall. Adam Plachetka will be performing these same works accompanied again by the Philharmonic at the Prague Spring in May, and these musicians will be working together again at next year's Janáček May festival in Ostrava. The concert is conducted by the National Theatre's Chief Conductor Robert Jindra.
All the musicians taking part in the festival have already been acclaimed for their performances both on the concert platform, and in competitions in this country and abroad. Julie Svěcená, who won First Prize at the Concertino Praga International Radio Competition for Young Musicians in 2010, will be playing Mendelssohn's E minor violin concerto in Zlín and Uherské Hradiště. Michaela Špačková, who won the 'Come and Play with the Czech Philharmonic' competition and will perform with them at their Open Air Concert under Chief Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek in June, will play Mozart's B-flat Bassoon Concerto. Then from Slovenia comes David Novak, winner of the European accordionists' competition organised by the ONE European orchestra association, to play Václav Trojan's composition Tales for Accordion and Orchestra. The concerts in April will be conducted by Maroš Potokár, who is currently conductor at the State Theatre opera in Košice. Then in May we can look forward to concerts conducted by the Polish female conductor Marzena Diakun, whose accomplishments include Second Prize at the Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice. Simona Mrázová, who was born here in Zlín and has been performing since 2008 with the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava, will be singing arias from the roles of Mařenka, Cherubín and Carmen.
The Hungarian violinist Attila Ökrös, who studies at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, will play Sibelius's D minor violin concerto, and the festival's closing concert is given over to two laureates of Kroměříž's Archetti in Moravia violin competition currently studying at the Prague Conservatoire. They are Liliana Dulanská, who will be performing Wieniawski's Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust, and Markéta Nádvorníková, who plays the first movement of Brahms's D major violin concerto.
