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Petra Besa – Piano (Switzerland)

Petra Besa has been playing on piano since her early childhood. After study at the Brno Conservatory in the class of M. Bialas, she continued with study at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts under J. Skovajsa. She finished her studies at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Bern, in class of Bruno Canino, where she obtained prestigious Solistendiplom and degree “Diplomierte Musikerin MH”. She enriched her musical fleshes with attendance on master’s courses under B. Buchbinder, E. Indijic and others. She has many received awards: She is multiple laureate of international contest “Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte” where she was awarded four times. She is furthermore laureate of Czech Radio award, Leoš Janáček Foundation award, etc.

She has appeared at festivals such as Concentus Moraviae, the Kuks Music Summer, Hluboká and Vltavou Festival, Janáček in Hukvaldy, La Schubertiade, Moravian Autumn, Murter Classics, Olten Classique and Via Francigena. Several times she co-worked with State Brno Philharmonic and conductors such as Caspar Richter and Petr Altrichter. Besides her classical concert repertoire, Petra Besa is intensively devoted to chamber music rehearsals. She has co-worked with artist such as Bohuslav Matoušek, Igor Karsko, and Jiří Pospíchal (violin), Alexander Besa (viola), Jan Škrdlík and Vojtěch Novák (cello), members of Camerata Bern, Ensemble Kaleidoscope, and others. Presently, Petra Besa lives in Lucern and works at Music Academy in the City of Basel.

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Jan Škrdlík – Cello (Czech Republic)

Jan Škrdlík comes from a musical family. He studied under Jan Hališka at the Ostrava Conservatory, further under Bedřich Havlík at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, under Luis Claret in Barcelona and continues with study even further, privately at Daniel Veis in Prague. He obtained reward of Czech Music Fund, awarded for his propagation of Czech artworks in abroad and many other awards. He was a member of the Wallinger Quartet for over a quarter of a century from 1990 to 2016. In 1997 until 2009 taught on the Brno Conservatory.

The artistic range of Jan Škrdlík begins from authentic period-faithful styles to traditional Czech romantic and neo-romanticism expressive school. Reviews from different parts of Europe and America agreed about character of his play: Designated of very clear and confident creation of tone even in the most difficult parts of compositions, he excel in sound picturesqueness and tone plasticity, genteel tone and quality technique preparedness. Among instruments with which Jan Škrdlík played on, belongs violoncello of Adam Emanuel Homolka made in 1842, which in 2007 become known in press, after someone stole it from artists atelier and based on report in television, instrument was returned by the thief after 2 days.