After nine months of preparation and rehearsals, the most talented pupils from all over South Moravia are to appear in the grand finale. On Sunday they will perform at the gala concert of the Mozart's Children talent festival, organised by the Brno Philharmonic for the 16th year. A large orchestra made up of professional philharmonic musicians and young players will take to the stage.
"We’ve been working on this project since September. The children rehearse the programme with their teachers at the Elementary Art School and we meet together on an ongoing basis. While our colleagues focus on making sure that the students have a good mastery of the material, we work on playing together, and especially on playing together with the orchestra. So they get different advice and guidance from me than they tend to be used to," said Brno Philharmonic flautist Martina Venc Matušínská.
She is one of the orchestra's mentors, responsible for children from art schools. She is mentoring eleven flautists this year. "They're all very well prepared, so we can really focus on making sure that we’re in tune as a group, that our intonation is clear, which is not entirely easy with the flute, partly because it is played in such high registers," add Matušínská.
Sunday's concert is also eagerly awaited by its conductor, Ondrej Olos. "We have yet to rehearse together with the orchestra, so I’m really curious and looking forward to it very much. I think it’ll be something of an adventure for all of us, for the children, their teachers, for the philharmonic and for me," said Olos.
The orchestra of professionals will be accompanied by seventy children. "We know from previous years that this is a great experience for them. Not only playing in the orchestra, but the whole rehearsal process as well," said Marie Kučerová, director of the Brno Philharmonic.
This year's concert is entitled Invitation to Dance and will include waltzes, dances, march and Can-can by Offenbach, Mozart, Janáček, Bizet and other composers. The Mozart's Children festival continues on Tuesday 10 June, with the Children's Soloists Concert at the Besední dům. Eleven young musicians, selected by a panel of experts, will perform with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zdeněk Nádeníček. Listeners can look forward to young violinists, pianists, clarinetists, flautists and others.
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