Current news: Concentus Moraviae reveals the residing artists for the year 2016

23 November 2015, 14:00
Current news: Concentus Moraviae reveals the residing artists for the year 2016

Shakespeare, Beethoven and the tradition of Czech quartets: These are the main topics of already the 21st year of the festival that has just revealed its residing ensemble, which is the world-known Pavel Haas Quartet.

The international musical festival, which will be held traditionally in 13 towns in South Moravia and Vysočina, has published its residing artists. The festival director David Dittrich added: “It is an exceptional event for the festival to gain the Pavel Haas Quartet as a resident and it is also a rare opportunity for the listeners to get to know one of the best quartets in the world in its unique repertoire range.”

The ensemble, which received the prestigious Gramophone Award for four times, will perform in June 2016 at five concerts with various programs in a number of festival cities. The Pavel Haas Quartet will also lead the master courses for young string quartets in a castle in Moravský Krumlov. The Pavel Haas Quartet will already perform in the starting concert in Mikulov together with the American Dover Quartet in the Octet of F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the Quartet will also perform compositions from Ludwig van Beethoven, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Bohuslav Martinů, Leoš Janáček, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev during the festival and they may not miss a composition from Pavel Haas, whose name the Quartet carries. Another event will be the world premiere of the composition from Ľubice Salamon-Čekovská, which was composed for the Pavel Haas Quartet residence in the festival Concentus Moraviae. The festival will take place from 1 to 28 June 2016 in 13 towns in South Moravia and Vysočina.

The Quartet comments on its residence: “No other chamber group has ever drawn such attention of composers like a string quartet. The Concentus Moraviae Festival is dedicated to this phenomenon the whole year and it is a great honour for us to be a part of it as a residing ensemble. It is a rare opportunity to appear before Czech audiences in five concerts and master courses during June 2016. The Pavel Haas Quartet together with other ensembles will present a wide repertoire of the string quartet in all its aspects.”

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