Czechoslovak Chamber Duo

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Czechoslovak Chamber Duo is an ensemble that interprets classical chamber music .

history

The Czech violinist Pavel Burdych and the Slovak pianist Zuzana Berešová founded the Czechoslovak Chamber Duo in 2004. They met at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. They are among the most important chamber music ensembles in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . Its main aim is to present the Czech and Slovak musical culture to the world and to focus on selected compositions by Czech and Slovak composers from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

In 2018, during the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Czech and Slovak Republics, the duo presented their skills as the resident ensemble of the diplomatic missions of the Czech and Slovak Republics. It played numerous concerts in many metropolises on the European continent (Bucharest, Dublin, Chisinau, Lisbon, Nicosia, Podgorica, Riga, Rome, Stockholm, Vilnius, Warsaw), in Asia (Taipei, Beijing, Jakarta) and in Africa (Cairo, Nairobi ). In 2018 the duo was approached by the Forfest festival in Kroměříž, Czech Republic, to present the program "Czech and Slovak Women Composers" with works by Vítězslava Kaprálová , Ivana Loudová , Sylvie Bodorová , Iris Szeghy and Viera Janárčeková . In 2017 the duo performed works by the three most famous Czech composers Antonín Dvořák , Bedřich Smetana and Leoš Janáček on a concert tour through China (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Jinan, Dezhou, Shijiazhuang, Dalian, Foshan, Jiangmen, Pingxiang) . Burdych and Berešová recorded two CDs in 2016 with music by the Slovak composer Ladislav Kupkovič and with the concert waltzes by the famous local composer of Bardejov Béla Kéler . The duo also took part in the project of the Czech Ministry of Culture "Year of Czech Music 2014". The duo played a final concert in the Bohuslav Martinů Center in Polička (Czech Republic). Berešová and Burdych were invited to perform the music of the Slovak composer Karol Elbert as part of the project "Karol Elbert - Known Unknown in 2013". The duo's first CD with the music of Czech and Slovak composers such as Antonín Dvořák, Peter Machajdík and Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský was published in May 2012 by the Czech Radio Prague . On the 130th anniversary of Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, his works became the main program of the South Korea tour with a concert in Seoul in 2011. Burdych and Berešová reminded their audience of the 170th anniversary of Dvořák's birthday on the European stages. In 2008, as part of the "Century of Eugen Suchoň" project of the Slovak Ministry of Culture, they prepared 18 concerts with works by the Slovak composer Eugen Suchoň .

Members

Pavel Burdych (born July 31, 1978 in Náchod ) finished his studies in violin playing and chamber music at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Brno in 2005. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Czechoslovak Chamber Duo.

Zuzana Berešová (born February 23, 1980 in Pavlovce nad Uhom ) continued her studies of piano playing at the University of Music in Bratislava . She finished the master's program of piano playing and chamber music at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Since 2004 she has been a member of the Czechoslovak Chamber Duo.

Discography

2012 - CZECHOSLOVAK CHAMBER DUO 2012 CR 0591-2, Publisher: Czech Radio / Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský , Peter Machajdík , Antonín Dvořák /

2016 - Ladislav Kupkovič: Chamber Music for Violin and Piano DK 0167-2131, Publisher: Diskant

2016 - Béla Kéler: Waltz for violin and piano VR 222-2-731, publisher: Videorohaľ

Concerts

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