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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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Czech-Korean Friendship Concert • Date: 20.Oct.2013 • Time: 7:30 PM • Venue: Municipal House – Smetana Hall • Organizer: Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Czech Republic • Sponsor: Youngsan Group, World Culture Networks GmbH Conductor • Petr Altrichter Orchestra • Prague Philharmonia Soloists • Won KIM – Piano • Lucie Silkenova – Soprano • Jun-Sang HAN – Tenor • Yoonhee KIM – Violin


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‘


CONDUCTOR & SOLOISTS 1.

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Conductor PETR ALTRICHTER

Piano WON KIM

Soprano LUCIE SILKENOVA

Tenor JUN-SANG HAN

Violin YOONHEE KIM


2 PETR ALTRICHTER - CONDUCTOR . 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


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.


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


3.3 JUN-SANG HAN - TENOR . 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


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 worldwide 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.


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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