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JULY
Wallinger
Quartet
Formed in 1986, the Wallinger Quartet soon achieved
great success in a number of competitions: less than a
year after its establishment, it already won the
Beethoven’s Hradec Competition, and it was awarded an
Honourable Mention in the Prague Spring competition in
1988, the Prix Espace 2 in 1990 and an Honourable
Mention in a competition in the French town of Evian.
The present Wallinger Quartet has played together since
1990, when the cellist Jan Škrdlík joined the ensemble.
In 1993, 1995 and 1998, the four musicians went on
successful tours across the USA. The Quartet gave master
classes at a university in Los Angeles. The ensemble
boasts an extensive repertoire, with which they have
appeared in concert halls throughout Europe, America and
Africa.The Quartet has been chosen several times to
represent the Czech Republic at important cultural
events in Vienna and France.
Although the musicians devote themselves in particular
to what one might refer to as the classical repertoire,
they also give performances of pieces by contemporary
composers, both Czech and foreign, a number of whom have
devoted some of their pieces to the Quartet.
The Wallinger Quartet has recorded extensively, both for
Czech and foreign record companies and radio stations
(quartets by Janáček, Mozart, Wayne, Dvořák, and Brahms)
and have collaborated with a number of top Czech and
foreign artists. The ensemble has also taken part in
prestigious music festivals and concert series, such as
the Moravian Autumn International Music Festival, The
Friends of the Prague Spring International Music
Festival, and the Czech Philharmonic’s chamber society.
In 2006, the ensemble celebrated the 20th anniversary of
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