Welcome drinks and piano concert

17:45 – 19:15 Central European Summer Time, 15 September 2023 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

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Slávka Vernerová - Pěchočová

Slávka Vernerová - Pěchočová won the International Smetana's piano competition in Hradec Králové in 1996 and is a laureate of several other domestic and foreign competitions: Wrocław 1995, Missouri 1998, and Wales 2001. She played repeatedly for the Youth Podium Festival in Carlsbad and, in 2004, was invited as a soloist for the matinee concert in Prague's Spring Festival. Vernerová - Pěchočová has played with various orchestras, both Czech (Czech Philharmonic, FOK et al.) and foreign (Gunma [Japan] Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Orchestra).

Slávka Vernerová-Pěchočová

 

Miroslav Sekera

He has been playing the piano since he was three years old when his extraordinary talent found an excellent teacher Professor Zdena Janžurová. Along with the piano began studying violin. Thanks to the art of playing the piano while the violin was chosen to play a little Mozart in the Oscar-winning movie "Amadeus" by director Milos Forman. He played both instruments devoted to their adoption at the Prague Conservatory, where he decided only to study piano. 

Miroslav Sekera