Allegretto Žilina

Performers:

• Mucha Quartet [profile of ensemble] (SK)
  Juraj Tomka - 1. violin, Andrej Baran - 2. violin, Veronika Prokešová - viola, Pavol Mucha - cello
  

  was established in 2003 at the Conservatory in Bratislava and it belongs to the prominent chamber ensembles in Slovakia. The first teacher of the quartet was Stanislav Mucha, the father of the cellist Pavol Mucha and the 1st violinist of the Moyzes Quartet, which used to bear the name „Mucha Quartet“ in its student years. They studied chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in the class of Ján Slávik, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Johannes Meissl, and also at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid in the class of Günter Pichler. Mucha Quartet received important artistic impulses at the International Summer Academy in Reichenau, Académie musicale de Villecroze, Intertnational String Quartet Academy Montreal under the artistic lead of P. Schuhmayer, J. Meissl, O. Müller, H. Beyerle, M. da Silva, E. Epshtein, J. Talich, P. Prause, Josef Klusoň, A. Keller, and other. Mucha Quartet has regular concerts at various music festivals and cultural events in Slovakia and abroad – Bratislava Music Festival, Viva Musica! Festival, Prague Spring, Concentus Moraviae, recital in the Viennese Musikverein, Bordeaux String Quartet Festival, Allegretto Festival Žilina, and other. In 2016 they performed on tours in South Korea and China. In 2016 they were granted the title Young Artist within the Tatra banka Foundation Art Award for Music in 2016. Their recordings include their profile CD (Diskant, 2013) and Slovak Songs by Béla Bartók in co-operation with Iva Bittová (Pavian Records, 2016). In 2016 – 2017 they are the ensemble-in-residence of the Devin Radio. Among their periodic projects we can mention musica_litera (joining classical music and artistic word).

  www.muchaquartet.sk