Graduates have a chance to shine alongside classical music stars
The international project Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž offers for the fifth time this year the opportunity for young talented students of various musical fields to improve their "discipline" under the guidance of top lecturers working in our country and abroad. It is also an opportunity for them to perform on stage alongside their musical role models, often accompanied by a large orchestra, and to present their art to the general public as part of the Kroměříž Music Festival.
This year, several laureates from last year and previous graduates of the academy will once again have this prestigious privilege. The youngest of them, Nora Lubbadová, a thirteen-year-old exceptionally gifted pianist, has, despite her young age, a number of significant awards and prestigious musical experience on the domestic and international stage. Her latest successes include this year's 1st prize in solo piano and in the piano concerto category, the Prize for the best performance of a Chopin work and the GRAND PRIZE. As part of this year's edition, she will perform together with Ivo Kahánek during the Piano Recital on Saturday, August 13th at the Nadsklepí cinema.
At the Gala Symphony Concert on Sunday, August 14, the Květná zahrady Greenhouse will feature seventeen-year-old cellist Tomáš Prechal, who lives in the Netherlands. Last year, he shone at the Kroměříž Academy and became one of the award-winning laureates. In addition to playing the cello since the age of five, he began composing at the age of eleven. He will be joined by another last year's award-winning student, violinist David Hernych, at this concert in honor of Václav Hudeček, to whose anniversary the concert is dedicated. As a soloist, at the age of eighteen, he has collaborated with leading Czech conductors such as Petr Vronský, Radek Baborák, Ondřej Vrabec and Jakub Klecker.
As part of the Opening Concert of the Return of Peace on Friday, August 12, in the Rotunda, accompanied by the Collegium Colloredo Orchestra, a former graduate of the academy, a student from Kateřina Kněžíková's class, and currently a successful soprano, Markéta Klaudová, who has been dedicated to interpreting early music for many years, will perform.
We will find out what extraordinary talents this year's Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž will bring at the Final Concert "The Return of Amadeus" on Friday, August 19th in the Květná zahrady Greenhouse, where the best graduates will be announced.
More detailed information about the program and the mentioned graduates can be found in the program of individual concerts HERE.