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CZECH - KOREAN
FRIENDSHIP CONCERT
SUN, 20.OCTOBER.2013
PRAGUE
M U N I C I PA L H O U S E – S M E TA N A H A L L
PRAGUE PHILHARMONIA
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CONTENTS &
OVERVIEW
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Program
2.
Conductor
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Soloist
4.
Orchestra
5.
Venue
6.
Contact
Czech-Korean Friendship Concert
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Date: 20.Oct.2013
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Time: 7:30 PM
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Venue: Municipal House – Smetana Hall
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Organizer: Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Czech Republic
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Sponsor: Youngsan Group, World Culture Networks GmbH
Conductor
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Petr Altrichter
Orchestra
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Prague Philharmonia
Soloists
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Won KIM – Piano
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Lucie Silkenova – Soprano
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Jun-Sang HAN – Tenor
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Yoonhee KIM – Violin
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1 PROGRAM
Componist
Work description
Soloist
Time
Anonym
Three Korean Folksongs for Orchestra
1. Arirang
2. San-Yoo-Hwa (Mountain Flower)
3. Ulsan Maid
Petr Altrichter
8‘
Antonin Dvorak
Terinka‘s Aria Ach Bože, božínku from the opera Jakobin
Antonin Dvorak
Rusalka‘s Aria Song to the Moon from the opera Rusalka
Anonym
Korean Folk Song Bak Yeon Waterfall (박연폭포)
Eduardo Di Capua
’O sole mio
1
Overture
2
Soprano Solo
3
Tenor Solo
4
Duet
Giuseppe Verdi
Duet Parigi, o cara from the opera La Traviata
Lucie Silkenova &
Hoyoon Chung
5‘
5
Violin Solo
Pyotr I.
Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, 1st movement
Yoonhee Kim
20‘
Lucie Silkenova
Jun-Sang Han
Intermission
4‘
5‘
3‘
3‘
9‘
6‘
20‘
6
Piano Solo
Camille SaintSaëns
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Won Kim
25‘
7
Orchestra
Antonin Dvorak
Czech Suite in D major, Op. 39
Petr Altrichter
22‘
TOTAL (estimated)
Part 1: 48‘
Part 2: 47‘
115‘
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CONDUCTOR &
SOLOISTS
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Program
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Conductor
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Soloist
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Orchestra
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Venue
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Contact
Conductor
PETR ALTRICHTER
Piano WON KIM
Soprano LUCIE SILKENOVA
Tenor JUN-SANG HAN
Violin YOONHEE KIM
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2 PETR ALTRICHTER - CONDUCTOR
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Petr Altrichter (1951 Frenštát pod Radhoštěm) studied
French horn and conducting at conservatory, and orchestra
and choir conducting at the Janáček Academy in Brno. In
1976 he took second place at the famous conducting
competition in Besançon, and won the special prize of the
French National Composers’ Union.
He has guest conducted for orchestras on three continents,
including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic,
the Japan Symphony Orchestra, and the RTL Luxembourg
Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared at festivals in
Paris, Madrid, Chicago, Zurich, Salzburg, Vienna, Edinburgh,
Athens, Cheltenham, and more.
He began his professional career as assistant conductor for
the Brno State Philharmonic; in subsequent years he
worked at the Czech Philharmonic as assistant to Václav
Neumann, and at the philharmonics in Zlín, Pardubice, and
again in Brno. In 1987 he transferred to Prague’s FOK
Symphony as associate conductor, and later chief
conductor. In 1993 – 2004 he headed the Southwest
German Philharmonic in Constance; from 1997 to the end
of 2001 he was chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic. In 2002 – 2009 he was chief conductor of the
Brno Philharmonic; at present he is chief conductor of
Prague’s FOK.
Homepage:
http://www.nachtigallartists.cz/en/artists/conductors/altric
hter-petr
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3.1 WON KIM - PIANO
Acclaimed by The New York Newsday as a pianist with “fiery
temperament with excellent technique”, pianist Won Kim h
as been performing around the world in Europe, Korea and
the United States and has already appeared numerous time
s as a soloist with such orchestras as Baltimore Symphony, B
arcelona Symphony, Ukrainian State Symphony, New York Y
outh Symphony, Mozarteum Orchestra, Russe Symphony, S
eoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Janacek Philharmonic Orchest
ra and St. Peterburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Many of his performances have been broadcasted over the
time by DRS Radio, WQXR Radio, Radio Clju, KBS-TV, MBC-T
V and EBS-TV.
Won Kim’s relationship with piano began at the age of eight
as he started receiving lessons from his father who is a reno
wned pianist Korea. At the age of twelve he made his first p
ublic appearance with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra after w
hich followed his continued musical education at the Julliar
d School in New York. Upon graduation from Pre-College he
then went on to study with Hans Leygraf and Christoph Lies
ke at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg where he receiv
ed masters degree with highest distinction. He has further s
tudied in Solistenklasse at the Hochschule fur Musik und Th
eater in Hanover under Arie Vardi and now resides in Hanno
ver, Germany.
Winner of numerous international Competitions, he has wo
n prizes, among many others, at Maria Callas International
Music Competition (1st Prize), New Orleans International Pi
ano Competition (3rd Prize), St. Charles International Piano
Competition(1st Prize), Tchaikovsky International Music Co
mpetition in Moscow (Best Performance of 20 Century Musi
c) and Wiliam Kapell International Piano Competition (3rd P
rize) where The Washington Times called his performance “
virtually flawless and thrilling”
Homepage: http://wonkim.net/
He has also been recipient of Gina Bachauer Memorial Schol
arship, Bosendorfer Scholarship, German Chopin Society Sc
holarship and in 1999 he was chosen as one of the young ar
tists for the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival.
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3.1 LUCIE SILKENOVA - SOPRANO
Lucie Silkenova was born in Prague. She was a member
of the Kühn Children’s Choir /1989 - 1997/, studied the
musically orientated Jan Neruda High School and after
seven years’ co-operation with Ivan Kusnjer, opera soloist
of the National Theatre in Prague, she graduated from the
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague /2010/. She has also
honed her vocal technique at master classes in England,
Spain, Germany and Austria (Anatolli Goussev, Gery Grice,
Rotraud Hansmann, Margreet Honig, Tom Krause, Georg
Nigl, Margot Nollen, Alexander Olivier, Tomas Paul, Marta
Scheffel).
Lucie has won several important prizes at international
voice competitions. Among the most significant for her
career have been the 1st Prize at the international
competition
in
France
“Concours
International
d’Encouragement Musical, Lyon 2008” (Rotary Club) and the
2nd Prize in the opera category at the “Antonín Dvořák
International Vocal Competition, Karlovy Vary 2009”
together with theatre awards (National Theatre Prague,
State Opera Prague, State Theatre in Košice - Slovakia).
Opera-goers have had the chance to hear her in many roles
including Cleopatra (Händel: Julius Caesar), Pamina (Mozart:
Die Zauberflöte), Corilla (Donizetti: Viva la Mamma), Rosina
(Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia), Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto) and
Lisa (Lehár: The Land of Smiles). She made her debute with
the National Theatre in Prague in 2010 and became a
resident guest with the company. Her debut role at
the Prague State Opera was Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto). She is a
guest singer at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec,
the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Plzeň, the National Moravian-Silesian
Theatre in Ostrava and co-operates with the Prague
Chamber Opera on international tours (Japan, Spain,
France, Germany, Switzerland).
She has made many concert appearances including with
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de
São Paulo, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Symphony Orchestra,
Bohuslav Martinů Symphony Orchestra Zlín, Moravian
Philharmonic in Olomouc and North Bohemian
Philharmonic in Teplice. She has collaborated with
numerous renowned conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek,
John Fiore, Robert Jindra, Jiří Kout, Ondrej Lenárd, Tomáš
Netopil, Jac van Steen and Osmo Vänskä. She successfully
performed at international music festivals as Prague Spring
International Music Festival, International Opera Festival
Smetana’s Litomyšl and Festival Mahler Jihlava 2009 - Music
of a Thousand aj. She has made several recordings with the
labels Navora Records, ArcoDiva and Czech Radio.
Homepage: http://www.luciesilkenova.cz/en
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3.3 JUN-SANG HAN - TENOR
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Jun-Sang Han, born in Seoul/South Korea, studied singing at
Yonsei University in Seoul as well as Opera and Singing at
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under Renate
Behle. With the start of the 2006/07 season he became a
member of the International Opera Studio at Hamburgische
Staatsoper.
The tenor won the 1st prize at the International Robert
Stolz Singing Competition for Viennese Operetta in 2006 as
well as the 2nd prize at the Elise Meyer Singing Competition
in 2005.
Since 2008/09 ,Mr. Han is a member of the ensemble of
Hamburgische Staatsoper with a smooth build-up of his
career towards bigger roles. In 2008/09 he has been Camille
de Rouissilon/ Merrry Widow and Nemorino/ Elisier a.o. e ,
other main parts of the light Verdi (Fenton/Falstaff) and
Wagner (Steuermann/Holländer, also on tour to Edinburgh)
repertoire will follow in 2009/10. The 2010/11 season will
have him (amongst others) as Tamino and Ferrando/Così in
Hamburg.
2011/12 he sang Alfredo here in "Die
Fledermaus" and Walther von der
Vogelweide in "Tannhauser". Also in the
concert area, the tenor is active. He brought
in cooperation with the Bavarian State
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra Arnold Schoenberg's
chamber music version of Gustav Mahler's
"Song of the Earth" to the performance. He
also sang Schubert's Mass in E flat major with
the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn
2012/13 he sang Ottavio in Don Giovanni
and Casio in Otello
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3.4 YOONHEE KIM - VIOLIN
At the age of five, Yoon-Hee Kim made her first orchestral
debut with the Savaria Orchestra of Hungary in 1996 and
began playing violin at the age of three. Within a year she
had already performed public concerts. She was admitted
to the Vienna University for Music at the age of four as the
youngest student. She studies with Prof. Eugenia
Polatschek, Prof. Gerhard Schulz.
Even as a young soloist, she performed with several
important world- wide famous orchestras, among them the
Stuttgart Philharmony , Monte Carlo Philharmony, Norway
Trondheim Symphonyorchestra, Spain Radio Television
Orchestra (RTVE) under Maestro Walter Weller, Slovak
Philharmonic, Bayer Philharmony, Ukraine National
Symphony orchestra, National Kiev Chamber Orchestra,
Dohnanyi Symphony Orchestra , Tansilvanian Orchestra. In
Korea, she performed with KBS Symphony, Seoul
Symphony, Korean Symphony, Euroasian Philharmonic,
Busan, Daejeon, Gwangju, Jeonju and Jeju Symphony. She
played with world wide famous conductors like Walter
Weller, who is the Music Director of Belgium National
Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal, Roman Kopfmann, Claus Peter
Flor, Philippe Auguin, Leos Svarovsky, Erwin Aadland,
Othmar Maga, Rainer Koch, Damian Iorio.
Kim won several international competitions. She won the
First Prize at the Andrea Postacchini international
competition in Fermo, Italy, First Prize at Prima la Musica
competition in Austria, First Prize by “Concorsi International
Di Musica” in Stresa, Italy, First Prize in the Rovere d'Oro
Bartolomeo al Mare, Italy, the winner at the Fidelio
Competition in Austria, special prize and scholarship of the
Hebert von Karajan Foundation and Robert and Lina ThyliDuerr Foundation of Switzerland.
She gave concerts worldwide famous concert halls, as the
Musikverein (Golden Hall), Lieder Halle in Stuttgart,
Auditorium Rainier III hall in Monte Carlo, Smetana Hall and
Rudolfinum in Praha, the International Palace of Arts in
Budapest, Atheneum in Bucarest, RTVE Teatro hall in
Madrid, Odd-fellow palace in Copenhagen, Denmark,
Olavshallen in Trondheim, Norway.
She played with different famous instruments, Stradivarius
"The Red Diamond" 1732, "Da Vinci" 1725. In addition to
CNN’s special introduction as a violinist of Genius , TF1 TV
has introduced her, as L’Enfant Prodigie, one of the most
mysterious 30 stories (Les 30 Histoires les plus
Mysterieuses) in their special program.
2011, she received the „Young Artist of the Year“-prize from
the ministry of culture in Korea as the youngest recipient
ever. Also she was appointed as honor ambassador of the
“New 7 Wonder” of Nature – Jeju Island. In February 2012,
Kim performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at
Cadogan Hall in London.
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4 PRAGUE PHILHARMONIA
Prague Philharmonia was established in 1994 upon the
initiative of the conductor Jiří Bělohlávek as a chamber
ensemble made up of young music school graduates playing
with true engagement and passion. Following 1996, when it
became one of the first public benefit companies, it
gradually came to be ranked among the Czech Republic’s
foremost orchestras and built up renown abroad.
The fundamental configuration of Prague Philharmonia is
based on the type of orchestra dating from the period of
Viennese Classicism, whose compositions form the
cornerstone of its repertoire. In addition to paramount
works of this epoch, the Romantic era and the 20th century,
the concert programme is supplemented by a special series
of concerts featuring modern and contemporary music, still
rather exceptional when it comes to the leading Czech
orchestras.
Prague Philharmonia frequently performs at prestigious
world concert halls, is a regular guest at international music
festivals and appears with world-famous conductors and
soloists, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Milan Turković,
Emmanuel Villaume, Jefim Bronfman, András Schiff, Shlomo
Mintz, Sarah Chang, Isabelle Faust, Mischa Maisky,
Magdalena Kožená, Anna Netrebko, Natalie Dessay, Rolando
Villazón, Placido Domingo and many others. The orchestra
has to date recorded more than 60 compact discs for labels
of such renown as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca,
Supraphon, EMI and Harmonia Mundi. One of the most
recent Prague Philharmonia albums is the live recording of
Bedřich Smetana’s My Country from the opening concert of
the 2010 Prague Spring festival; the album titled Libera, on
which the orchestra accompanies the Korean soprano Sumi
Jo; and, in chamber formation, the CD featuring the violinist
Ivan Ženatý performing works by František Benda.
Jiří Bělohlávek was the chief conductor and artistic
director of Prague Philharmonia until the 2005-2006
season, before taking up the post of chief conductor
of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. He still
holds the position of the orchestra’s honorary artistic
director. Jiří Bělohlávek was succeeded as artistic
director by the Swiss conductor Kaspar Zehnder, who
in the 2008-2009 season was replaced by Jakub
Hrůša. And it was under Jakub Hrůša that in 2010
Prague Philharmonia undertook the gala opening of
the jubilee 65th edition of the Prague Spring festival.
Interesting projects Prague Philharmonia has lined up
for the 2012-2013 season include concerts with the
mezzosoprano Elina Garanča in Prague and Paris, a
special benefit project with clarinet soloist Ludmila
Peterková, a subscription concert with the cellist
Mischa Maisky, conducted by Milan Turković, as well
as many others.
Prague Philharmonia is supported by the Ministry of
Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of
Prague.
Prague Philharmonia
Homepage:
http://www.praguephilharmonia.com/en/
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MUNICIPAL HOUSE – SMETANA HALL
ABOUT THE MUNICIPAL HOUSE
The Municipal House (Czech: Obecní dům) is a
major civic landmark and concert hall in Prague,
and an important building in architectural and
political history in the Czech Republic. It is
situated on Náměstí Republiky 5.
Around 1900, the building was commissioned by
the city on an odd-shaped lot and the subject of
one architectural competition, then another,
both unsatisfactory. The job was then simply
given to architects Osvald Polívka and Antonín
Balšánek, who served as much as artistic
coordinators as designers. Construction started
in 1905 and it opened in 1912.
The Art Nouveau structure is an artifact of the
Czech nationalism of the time and carries a
wealth of ornament by some of the leading
Czech artists of its day. The main facade features
a large ceramic half-dome mosaic above the
entry, Homage to Prague, by Karel Špillar. On
either side are allegorical sculpture groups
representing The Degradation of the People and
The Resurrection of the People by Ladislav
Šaloun, while the remainder of the rich
decoration was done by Josef Mařatka, František
Úprka and others, with light stands designed by
Karel Novák. Inside there are murals by the
famous Alfons Mucha, JanPreisler and Max
Švabinský and others, all of this on nationalist
themes.
The main space within the Municipal House is the
concert space, Smetana Hall, for 1.200 people,
named in honor of Bedřich Smetana. On October 28,
1918, Smetana Hall was the scene of the
proclamation of the independent state of
Czechoslovakia.
Due to its superior acoustics it is the main seat of the
Prague Royal Orchestra.
There are several restaurants and cafes on the
ground floor and basement. Near the main entrance
you can find an information center.
QUICK INFORMATION
Owner: Czech Republic
Address: Municipal House, a.s.
Nám. Republiky 1090/5
111 21 Prague 1
Czech Republic
Hall:
Smetana Hall
Capacity: 1067
Homepage: http://www.obecnidum.cz/en/
IMAGES
TOP: Smetana Hall
BOTTOM: Municipal House
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Contact
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