Hudobne Centrum

Programme

Wednesday 20. 06. 2018 at 6 p. m.

St Bartolomej RC Church, Čadca

Andreja Hlinku 20/13, Čadca

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Performers:

Mucha Quartet [profile of ensemble] (SK)
Juraj Tomka – I. violin
Jozef Ostrolucký – II. violin
Veronika Kubešová – 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
Filip Jaro[personal profile] – double bass (SK)

Works:

Ján Levoslav Bella
[personal profile]
(1843 – 1936)
- String Quartet in E Minor in Hungarian Style
  - Allegro risoluto
    
    Adagio
    
    Intermezzo (alla zingara). Focoso ma con grazia
    
    Finale. Allegro
Antonín Dvořák

(1841 – 1904)
- String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77
  - Allegro con fuoco
    
    Scherzo. Allegro vivace
    
    Poco Andante
    
    Finale. Allegro assai

Mucha Quartet, Juraj Tomka – I. violin, Jozef Ostrolucký – II. violin, Veronika Kubešová – viola, Pavol Mucha – cello, Filip Jaro – double bass

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17. 06. 2018 – 24. 06. 2018