Czech Organ Baroque
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• Michaela Moc Káčerková (CZ) – organ

  Michaela Káčerková consistently pursues a solo concert career, regularly performing at concerts and festivals in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy and France, but also returning to the USA and Japan. In her homeland, she also collaborates with many soloists, orchestras and Baroque ensembles, from the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Theatre Orchestra in Prague to the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic and ensembles such as Capella Regia Praha and others. Her repertoire includes music from all stylistic periods from the Renaissance to contemporary works. An important cornerstone of her repertoire is Czech organ music; she always includes Czech composers in her programmes, even more so abroad. She has become a prominent figure on the Czech music scene. She studied organ at the Prague Conservatory with Jan Hora, at the Academy of Performing Arts with Jaroslav Tůma, and further at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig; her teachers there were organist Stefan Engels and harpsichordist Tobias Schade. During her studies, she participated in numerous masterclasses, including those led by Harald Vogel, Martin Sander, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Olivier Latry or Ludger Lohmann. She is currently working on an extensive recording project "Historical Organs of the Karlovy Vary Region". The CD series is released by ARTA Records. She is the founder and dramaturge of the Karlovy Vary Organ Evenings. Since June 2021, she has been the director of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and the J. C. F. Fischer Music Festival.

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• Tomáš Strašil (CZ) – cello

  Tomáš Strašil was born on January 15, 1971, in Prague. From an early age, he showed musical talent; at five, he began studying cello, first at LŠU Voršilská with Prof. J. Pražák, later at the Prague Conservatory in the class of Prof. P. Sádlo. He continued his studies at the Prague AMU under the guidance of Doc. R. Lojda. During his final year at the conservatory, he worked as a tutti player in the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz. After being accepted to AMU (1991), he attended numerous courses during his studies with personalities such as: A. Ariscuren, M. Roche, P. Wiespelway, A. May, F. Smetana, E. Rattay, J. Chuchro, and others. He has received honorary mentions from competitions for the Beethoven Hradec Prize and was a finalist in the Prix Mercury – Semmering 1994 competition.

  From 1994 to 2000, Tomáš Strašil worked as concertmaster of the Suk Chamber Orchestra. In collaboration with Josef Suk and SKO, he recorded his debut CD with Josef Haydn’s C major cello concerto. As a soloist and chamber musician, he soon began performing at major festivals and collaborated with prominent Czech and foreign orchestras (North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, Gifu Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Musici di Praga, Suk Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Bohemica, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, National Theatre Chamber Orchestra, Praga Camerata, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Orchestrina Pangea, and others). Until 2000, he taught cello at the Teplice Conservatory. For Czech Radio, he recorded A. Dvořák’s chamber compositions for cello and piano, N. Paganini’s Variations on One String, and many other chamber compositions.

  Tomáš Strašil consistently devotes himself not only to solo but also to chamber music. With the advent of the new millennium, he left his position as concertmaster of SKO and fully dedicated himself to solo, chamber, and pedagogical activities; since 2000, he has been passing on his experience to young cellists as a professor of cello at the Prague Conservatory. He is also intensely interested in early music and collaborates with harpsichordist Michaela Moc Káčerková on concerts of 17th-19th century music. In 2002, he founded the chamber ensemble Camerata Bohemica, where he serves as a permanent soloist and artistic director. In 2003, he began collaborating with pianist Barbora Sejáková and violinist Dana Oerterová in Trio Bergerettes. At this time, he, along with Vítězslav Černoch, Dana Truplová, and Vilém Kijonka, co-founded the Kubelík Quartet. He is a frequent guest in recording studios and a lecturer at domestic and international courses. He is also increasingly a member of juries for cello or chamber competitions. Since 2003, he has been teaching cello at the Faculty of Education of Charles University and since 2012 also at the Prague AMU. In 2018, he founded the chamber association Orchestrina Pangea Prague, which specialises in 17th-19th century music.

  The cellist alternately plays instruments signed: “Pietro Zanetto di Brescia 1686” and “Mathias Heinicke, Eger, Bohemia 1934”.

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