LONDON: St Mary's Church

Tuesday 20th June, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

Programme

Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op.15
Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.9 in E flat, S.379 arr. for piano trio

The members of Trio Bohémo are all from the Czech Republic. They met in 2019 while studying in Budapest, Hungary and quickly established their reputation as a phenomenal prize-winning ensemble.

Since 2020 Trio Bohémo has been a member of the Le Dimore del Quartetto network which later awarded the trio a prize as Ensemble of the Year 2021. Further prize-winning successes rapidly followed in Switzerland, Italy and Austria, leading to concert appearances across Europe, alongside intensive rehearsals in Prague and master classes at the European Chamber Music Academy where they gain insight from luminaries of chamber music such as Hatto Beyerle, Patrick Jüdt, Johannes Meissl, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Dirk Mommertz.

Highlights from the 2021/22 concert season included a debut at the Vienna Musikverein and recitals at the Festival Lago Maggiore Musica in Italy, Gent Festival van Vlaanderen in Belgium, the Black Forest Music Festival and the Prague Spring Festival in their native Czech Republic.

In October 2021 Trio Bohémo won the prestigious International Parkhouse Award in London. In February 2022 they appeared on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and went on to be selected for the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme 2022-23.

Thanks to the exceptionally generous support of Dr. Jan Telenský, Matouš plays on a very fine Matteo Goffriller violin. Kristina plays on a beautiful cello by Fausto Maria Bertucci.

Violinist Matouš Pěruška is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he is currently studying in the doctoral programme. At the same time, he is studying in the postgraduate chamber music programme at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. During his studies he has taken many masterclasses led by such artists as Ivry Gitlis, Ray Chan, Ivan Ženatý, Václav Hudeček, Michael Frischenschlager, Hagai Shaham, and Milan Šetena. He has taken part in several national and international competitions (Verona, Pörtschach, Prague Spring). In 2019 he was invited to Spain as the guest concertmaster of the orchestra Camera Musicae. Since 2017, he has been concertmaster of the Haydn Ensemble.

Cellist Kristina Vocetková is a graduate of the Prague Conservatoire where she studied under Prof. Jaroslav Kulhan, and she earned a master’s degree at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, where she is still continuing her post-graduate studies of chamber music. She has taken masterclasses with artists including Claudio Bohorquez, Richard Aaron, Raphael Wallfisch, David Geringas, Jérôme Pernoo, and Romain Garioud. Besides playing chamber music she also is active as a solo performer. She has appeared with several of the leading Czech orchestras (Suk Chamber Orchestra, Barocco sempre giovane, Pavel Haas Chamber Orchestra & North Czech Philharmonic in Teplice) and in concert halls in Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy, Germany, France and the USA. She is a laureate of more than 20 international competitions (Prague Junior Note, Heran Cello Competition, Rudolf Matz Competition in Dubrovník, Sforzando Music Competition in Berlin, Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition & Anton Rubinstein International Competition in Berlin).

A native of Brno Jan Vojtek began playing piano at the age of five. At present he is a student in the master’s programme at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in the studios of professors Némethy Attila and Réti Balázs. He has had success at a number of competitions such as Prague Junior Note (2003), International Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte Competition (2007), Kaunas Sonorum International Competition (2011), Prague Talent Competition (2012) & Euregio Piano Awards (2018). In 2017 he made a month-long study visit to the Tokyo College of Music in Japan. He has also taken part in prestigious international piano courses in Tel-Hai (Israel) where he won the Marina Bondarenko Memorial Prize as the best course participant. He has made solo appearances with the Brno Philharmonic, the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc and the Györ Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary.

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