Czech
Philharmonic
Chamber Orchestra
Oboe
Soloist Jana Brozkova
Jana BROZKOVA is an oboe player who today belongs among the
most prominent Czech performers. She has been playing the oboe since the age of
eight, when she began her studies under the guidance of her father and continued
with considerable success at the Prague Conservatory and the
Academy
of
Performing Arts
in
Prague
.
Five years later she won high praise and a special award at the Europäischen
Musikpreis Zürich 1988. She took the third prize at the Prague Spring
Competition in 1991, and the list of her successes culminated in capturing first
prize at the IDRS Gillet Competition in 1997 in
Evanston
,
Ill.
,
USA
.
Since 1987 Jana Brozková has held the position of solo oboist for the
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in
Prague
. With this orchestra she has recorded many of the most famous oboe concerts
for the radio and as a solo player she performs at home as well as abroad.
Brozková concentrates intensively on chamber music. She is a member of In Modo
Camerale, an ensemble that has acquired a reputation not only among classical
music listeners but has also won numerous accolades from the critics. Due to the
unusual make-up of the ensemble (woodwind trio and piano), many new compositions
by contemporary Czech composers have been written for it. Brozková also
performs with the Afflatus Quintet, a woodwind quintet which in its relatively
short existence has captured the prestigious first prize at the competition ARD
München in 1997. Since 1999 she has been teaching at the Musical Faculty of the
Academy
of
Performing Arts
in
Prague
.
In 2002 she became solo oboist of the Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Barbora
Kolářová
Violin Soloist
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Czech violinist Barbora Kolářová (b. 1988) began
studying violin at the age of six and is presently a student of CPCO Artistic
Director Pavel Prantl at the Pilsen Music Conservatory (
Czech Republic
) during the winter and of Charles Avsharian at the
Meadowmount
School
(
New York
State
) during the summer.
In 1999 Miss Kolářová won the International Enescu Competition in
Bucharest
and in 2003 was a laureate of the International Telemann Competition in
Poznan
. Additionally, she has twice won the International Prague Junior Competition,
won numerous prizes at the Kocian International Competition, and won the
“Golden Youth” Television Competition established by Dagmar Havlová, wife
of former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel.
Though only 18 years of age, Miss Kolářová has toured extensively
as soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra on tours in the
Czech
Republic
,
Germany
,
France
,
Belgium
, and
Ireland
. Particularly memorable performances included her 2004 performances of the
Haydn C Major concerto with the CPCO at the renowned Mechelen (
Belgium
) Mozart-Haydn Festival followed by an extended German tour. Other notable
concerto appearances have included the Saint-Saens Concerto in b minor with the
Prague National Theater Orchestra, performances with the West Bohemia
Philharmonic, and Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins with her two sisters and
mother with Musici di Praga.
Miss Kolářová’s musical interests are far ranging. As a
principal member of the Czech youth folk music ensemble “Notičky”
(“Little Notes”) she has recorded two CDs, a music video, and has made
numerous appearances on Czech Broadcasting. She has also appeared with Notičky
at the USA World-Fest in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
In addition to her current studies with Pavel Prantl and
Charles Avsharian, she has also studied with Stephen Shipps and Ruggiero Ricci.
