Juraj Tomka (b. 1986) studied violin at the Conservatory in Bratislava (Stanislav Mucha), Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (Jozef Kopelman and Alexander Jablokov), University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Jan Pospíchal, Petr Schuhmayer and Johannes Meissl), as well as Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid (Günter Pichler). He is the […]

The Czech Philharmonic Quartet (CPQ) was established by the initiative of members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000. The quartet performers are Leoš Čepický, 1st violin, Viktor Mazáček, 2nd violin, Jiří Poslední, viola, and Jakub Dvořák, cello. The immense talents of these musicians and long-term experience in chamber music are great preconditions for their top-class […]

British Tenor Philip Sheffield is renowned internationally for his vocal versatility, acting ability and intensity. After an early career singing lyric roles all over the world he is most often found these days exploring the murkier side of life as a tenor. In 2018 he sang The Reverend Adams in “Peter Grimes” at the Opera Monte […]

The baroque ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, presents music rarely heard on  stage – the music of the early Italian Baroque, from the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the period when the Renaissance came to a close  and the new creative genre known as Baroque began. It was a time of unusual […]

Ivan Palovič studied violin at the Conservatory in Bratislava in the class of professor Jozef Kopelman, Bohdan Warchal jn. and František Török. Later he carried on with his viola studies at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava (with Jozef Hošek), at the Hochschule Musik Theater Zürich with Nicolas Corti and at the University […]

Mojše Band are three young  musicians dedicated to interpreting  traditional Jewish music from Slovakia, which is closely rooted in Slovak folklore. In many localities of Slovakia, there was a beautiful symbiosis of stylistically different elements from both these worlds which Mojše Band recreates, uniquely enriching it with elements of chanson, world music and jazz. Recent albums […]

The Vienna Kammersymphonie Quintet is an ensemble  of highly talented musicians based in Vienna bringjng to its audiences a vast musical repertoire from classics to 19th century to contemporary compositions, often performing works by (unjustly) forgotten and overlooked composers….

The pianist and composer  Jonathan Powell  studied with Denis Matthews and Sulamita Aronovsky. He has established an international career as a soloist, his programmes ranging from standard Classical and Romantic repertoire to contemporary and little-known 20th century works. He has performed widely in Europe, as well as in Russia and the US; he has also appeared on national radio of many […]