czech classical | Musicosity

Jiří Bělohlávek

Jiří Bĕlohlávek was born in Prague in 1946. His father, a judge, was a keen pianist, an excellent sight-reader, who introduced Jiří to a wealth of classical music. Jiří started singing in a children’s choir already at the age of four, soon took up learning piano as well, and his clearly exceptional musicianship was further developed at the Prague Conservatory and Music Academy of Arts, where he first studied cello but quickly progressed to conducting, under the expert tutelage of Alois Klíma and Josef Veselka.

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Magdalena Kožená

Magdalena Kožená (b. 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano. She was born in Brno in 1973. After having studied at the Brno Conservatoire and at the College of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she graduated in 1995. In 1996-97 she was a member of the Vienna Volksoper. Miss Kožená’s recordings include Bach arias, Handel’s Roman Motets and Italian Cantatas and “Messiah” with Marc Minkowski for DG/Archiv, and her first solo recital disc (Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů with Graham Johnson - Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, 2001) for Deutsche Grammophon, with whom she has signed an exclusive contract.

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Prague Symphony Orchestra

The Prague Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 by Rudolf Pek

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Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

?eská filharmonie (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) is a symphony orchestra based in Prague and is most well known and respected orchestra in Czechia. In the long term belongs to the top of best orchestras in Europe in a survey organized by the French magazine Le Monde de la Musique.
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was formerly the orchestra of the Prague National Opera. It played its first concert under its current name on January 4, 1896 when Antonín Dvo?ák conducted his own compositions, but it did not become fully independent from the opera until 1901.

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