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The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice (Czech: Komorní filharmonie Pardubice) is one of the leading Czech orchestras; it is a small symphonic "Mozart-Haydnesque" body. As the only professional orchestra in the Pardubice region it plays a highly important role in the musical life of this region. It organises a series of cycles in Pardubice, as well as other, special performances, increasingly aiming at the young and even the youngest listeners, performs in other cities in the Pardubice Region and the Czech republic, regularly appears at the most important festivals in the Czech Republic and is also recognised by audiences in many prestigious concert halls in Europe and beyond. Its repertoire includes a large number of compositions from the Baroque era and the Classical period to the 20th century music, and frequently enriched by various multi-genre adn cross-over artistic projects, illustrating how good music can be made across genres and styles.
The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, founded in 1969, has recently celebrated its 50th anniversary as one of the eminent orchestras in the Czech Republic. Its first Chief Conductor was Libor Pešek, who lost no time bringing the orchestra (then called the East-Bohemian State Chamber Orchestra) to highest artistic standards. The subsequent principal conductors included Libor Hlaváček, Petr Altrichter, Bohumil Kulínský, Petr Škvor, Róbert Stankovský, Leoš Svárovský, Marko Ivanović and Peter Feranec have kept a high artificial level of the orchestra. Since September 2018, the Orchestra´s Chief Conductor is Stanislav Vavřínek.
The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice is valued for its stylistic interpretation and the extraordinary quality of its orchestral sound, and it is rightly ranked amongst the world's leading representatives of Czech musical culture. It often performs at Czech Republic’s most important festivals (including The Prague Spring International Festival, Smetana’s Litomyšl, Janáček´s May Ostrava, or International Český Krumlov Festival) and at many important venues in Europe in many prestigious concert halls, such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Hercules Hall, Gasteig in Munich, Musikverein in Vienna, Brucknerhaus in Linz, Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Tonhalle in Zürich, and many others. Outside Europe, the orchestra has played has toured extensively around the USA, China, Japan, and Kuwait.
The Orchestra has collaborated with mandy leading world-renowned conductors (among others with Jiří Bělohlávek, Marco Armiliato, Mariss Jansons and many others) and also a huge number of prominent soloists and choirs (Lazar Berman, Ivan Moravec, Eugen Indjic, Ivo Kahánek, Martin Kasík, Isabelle van Keulen, Vladimir Spivakov, Pavel Šporcl, Václav Hudeček, Gabriela Demeterová, Angel Romero, Jiří Bárta, Ludwig Güttler, Radek Baborák, Peter Damm, Herrmann Baumann, Helen Donath, Eva Urbanová, Dagmar Pecková, Czech Boys Choir Boni Pueri, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno) have performed with the orchestra.
Apart from concert-giving the Orchestra regularly engages in operatic and theatre projects and has dozens of successful discs to its credit on Naxos, ArcoDiva, Supraphon, Classico, Monitor-EMI, Amabile. |
