6 pm
Cremona / IT
Museo Civico Ala Ponzone
Samuel Hirsch, Alla Ternova / violin
Viktoria Vanteeva / viola
Zoia Sudnis / cello

Yesenia Vicentini, Filippo Taccogna / violin
Teresa Valenza / viola
Stefano Grazioli / cello

Daniel Matejča, Natálie Toperczerová / violin
Bohumil Bondarenko / viola
Jakub William Gráf / cello

Programme:
Suk Quartet

photo: Marco Borggreve

Programme:
Henry Purcell: Music for a while
John Dowland: In darkness let me dwell
Tarquinio Merula: Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna
Brett Dean: Gertrude Fragments
Henry Purcell: When I am laid in Earth
Luciano Berio: Sequenza III pro ženský hlas
Girolamo Kapsberger: Toccata Arpeggiata
Antonio Cesti: Disseratevi abissi
Giulio Caccini: Odi Euterpe
Alessandro Piccini: Toccata VIII
Barbara Strozzi: Lagrime mie
Tarquinio Merula: Quando io voisi l’atra sera
Ticket prices: I. category 2.500 CZK / II. category 1.500 CZK / III. category 1.000 CZK / IV. category 600 CZK / V. category (standing tickets) 400 CZK.
7 pm
Austerlitz
Chateau, Historic Hall
Pavel Haas Quartet
Ensemble in residence of the 31st edition of the festival
Veronika Jarůšková, Marek Zwiebel / violin
Šimon Truszka / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello
photo: Robert Tichý
Programme:
Vítězslava Kaprálová: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”
First performance from a five concert serie, in which will be Pavel Haas Quartet performing as the ensemble in residence of the 31st festival edition.
Ticket prices: full price 500 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 350 CZK.
7:30 pm
Lysice
Chateau Courtyard
Daniel Matejča, Natálie Toperczerová / violin
Bohumil Bondarenko / viola
Jakub William Gráf / cello

Programme:
Alexandr Porfirjevič Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Josef Suk: String Quartet No. 1 in D major
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK
7:30 pm
Lomnice
Synagogue
Paweł Zalejski, Bartosz Zachłod / violin
Piotr Szumieł / viola
Piotr Skweres / cello

Programme:
Josef Suk: Meditation onn an Old Bohemian Chorale “Saint Wenceslas”, Op. 35a
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 34
Krzysztof Penderecki: String Quartet No. 3 “Pages from an Unwritten Diary“
Ticket prices: full prices 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.

ensemble in residence of the 31st festival edition
Veronika Jarůšková, Marek Zwiebel / violin
Šimon Truszka / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello

photo: Robert Tichý

photo: Sacha Gusov
Programme:
Antonín Dvořák: Cypresses (for string quartet), B 152 (selection, No. 1, 3, 7, 9, 10)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Pavel Haas Quartet
ensemble in residence of the 31st. festival edition
Veronika Jarůšková, Marek Zwiebel / violin
Šimon Truszka / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello

photo: Robert Tichý

photo: Sacha Gusov
Programme:
Antonín Dvořák: Cypresses (for a string quartet), B 152 (selection: No. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11,12)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Florian Willeitner, Daniel Stoll / violin
Sander Stuart / viola
Leonard Disselhorst / cello

Programme:
SPECTRUM No. 2
(original arrangements of jazz and popular melodies)
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK
Andrew Hallock / altus
Albert Riera / tenor
Marius Peterson / tenor
Arnout Malfliet / bass
Björn Schmelzer / artistic director

Programme:
Gilles Binchois: Agnus Dei
Johannes Ockeghem: Mort tu as navré (Déploration sur la mort de Binchois) / Alma Redemptoris mater
Josquin Desprez: O admirabile commercium / Quando natus est
Jacob Obrecht: Salve regina
Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange lingua Sanctus
Loyset Compère: Verbum supernum / O salutaris hostia
Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange lingua Agnus Dei
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Florian Willeitner, Daniel Stoll / violin
Sander Stuart / viola
Leonard Disselhorst / cello
photo: Harald Hoffmann
Programme:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D major, KV 575
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51/1
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Petr Špaček / Matěj Štěpánek / Jan Zemen / Ivan Vokáč / cello

Programme:
Danny Elfman: The Simpsons
Petr Iljič Čajkovskij: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Antonín Dvořák: “My spirit alone” (from: Four Songs, Op. 82)
Andrew Lloyd Weber: Could we start again, please? (from: Jesus Christ Superstar)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Erbarme dich (from: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244)
Jaroslav Ježek: Aesop and the Ant, Heaven on Earth
Jiří Šlitr: Touching the Stars
Harold Arlen: I’ve got the world on a string
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge over troubled water
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
ABBA: Dancing Queen
Andrew Lloyd Weber: The Phantom of the Opera
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Maia Cabeza, Ying Xue / violin
Emma Wernig / viola
John Myerscough / cello

Programme:
Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Jindřich Pavliš, Vojtěch Nýdl, Luděk Boura a Petr “Pepíno” Valášek
resident guest artist: Milan Cimfe / percussion

Programme:
What a Love
Luda’s Dance
The Field is burning
Towers
Grey Sky
Paleochora
Drufolk
Pipers
Eliška
Jordan
A la Orilla
Mayday
Hikari
Original compositions and arragements, improvisations
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Pieter Pellens / sopransaxofon
Hendrik Pellens / altsaxofon
Piet Rebel / tenorsaxofon
Sebastiaan Cooman / barytonsaxofon
Eric Sleichim / artistic director and arragements

photo: Guy Kokken
Programme:
BL!NDMAN plays BACH
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766
Ach, was soll ich Sünder, BWV 770
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767
Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig, BWV 768
In this programme, BL!NDMAN presents a special performance of the four Choralpartiten by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Of these little-known organ works, Eric Sleichim made a transcription for saxophone quartet.
It is usually assumed that Bach wrote these organ works at the age of barely 15 and that he later reworked them, which seems to be confirmed by their perfection. The chorale partita is a cycle of variations using a simple sequence of different “adventures” around the same theme. In these works, however, it becomes clear with what great ingenuity Bach uses this “poor” technique. By assigning a distinct identity to each of the variations, he creates the impression that each piece can still exist as a fully-fledged independent piece at any time despite its uniform atmosphere. As such, through its variations, each chorale partita demonstrates Bach’s inventiveness and innovative take on the German polyphonic tradition.
With its modern instrumentation, the BL!NDMAN saxophone quartet gives a new shape to this authentic style. The extraordinary sound spectrum of the saxophones equally evokes the austere sounds of certain baroque organs. The choice of performance of the Choral Partitas by wind instruments therefore rests on the source of all music: the breath.
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Irena Jakubcová, Petra Brabcová / violin
Eva Krestová / viola
Václav Petr / cello

photo: Petra Hajská


Programme:
Robert Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102
Antonín Dvořák: Cypresses (for a string quartet), B 152 (selection: no. 1, 2, 5, 10)
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81
Ticket prices:
Kryštof Kohout, Luna De Mol / violin
Elliot Kempton / viola
Findlay Spence / cello

photo: Kaupo Kikkas
Programme:
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 5
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”
Ticket prices:
in a partnership with
Antti Tikkanen, Minna Pensola / violin
Atte Kilpeläinen / viola
Tomas Djupsjöbacka / cello
photo: Tero Ahonen
Programme:
Kaija Saariaho: Fleurs de neige (version for a string quartet )
Krishna Nagaraja: Stringar
Jean Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor „Voces intimae“, Op. 56
Ticket prices: full price 400 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 300 CZK.
ensemble in residence of the 31st festival edition
Veronika Jarůšková, Marek Zwiebel / violin
Šimon Truszka / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello
photo: Robert Tichý
Program:
Franz Schubert: Oktet in F major, D 803
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
7 pm
Třebíč
Stone Hall
Matouš Pěruška / violin
Kristina Vocetková / cello
Jan Vojtek / piano

photo: Andrej Grilc

Programme:
Josef Suk: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2 E flat major, Op. 87
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.
David Pokorný, Vladimír, Klánský / violin
Alexej Aslamas / viola
Vít Petrášek / cello

photo: Josef Malina
Programme:
Duke Ellington: Caravan
Richard Rodgers: My funny Valentine
Ron Miller / Stevie Wonder: For Once in My Life
Duke Ellington: In my Solitude
Cole Porter: This cant be love
Harold Arlen: Over the Rainbow
Cole Porter: So in Love, I hate men, Too Darn Hot
Fabian Andre: Dream a Little Dream of Me
Sholom Secunda: Bei mir bist du schein
Ticket prices: full price 400 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 300 CZK
ensemble in residence of the 31st festival edition
Veronika Jarůšková, Marek Zwiebel / violin
Šimon Truszka / viola
Peter Jarůšek / cello

photo: Robert Tichý

photo: Marco Borggreve
Programme:
Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 E flat major, Op. 97
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK
Colin Currie, Owen Gunnell, Adrian Spillett a Sam Walton
photo: Frances Marshall
Programme:
Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet
Ben Nobuto: Daily Affirmation (premier in Czechia)
Dave Maric: Nascent Forms (premier in Czechia)
Steve Reich: Drumming Part 1
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK
Johnny Gandelsmann, Colin Jacobsen / violin
Nicholas Cords / viola
Michael Nicolas / cello
photo: Marco Giannavola
Programme:
Citizenship Notes
Caroline Shaw: Schisma
Matana Roberts: Borderlands…
Ted Hearne: We Are Working Tirelessly For a Ceasefire
Angélica Negrón: Our Children Speak Spanish and English
Don Byron: String Quartet No. 3
Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Arr. Colin Jacobsen)
Gabriel Kahane: American Studies
In Citizenship Notes, the string quartet is posited as a microcosmic democracy; a highly engaged ecosystem of equal voices with clear rights and responsibilities. It also celebrates a significant milestone in the history of Western democracy: the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Three new commissions, Byron Byron, Ted Hearne, and Angélica Négron, explore questions of citizenship and democracy in the 21st century, while BR’s own Colin Jacobsen puts his unique spin on the Bob Dylan civil rights era classic. representation of a musical democracy.
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK
Jonathan Schwarz, Emiri Kakiuchi / violin
Mayu Konoe / viola
Lukas Schwarz / cello
photo: Co Merz
Programme:
Anton Webern: Slow Movement for String Quartet
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK
10:00 – 17:00
Lednice -Valtice Cultural Landscape, region Pálava
Weinviertel (AT)

All of the performances during this event are free.
You can find the programme, time organisation and detailed information on a special and brand new website www.hudbanakole.cz.
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK
in a partnership with
7 pm
Retz, Lower Austria
Dominican Church
Cristiano Gualco, Paolo Andreoli / violin
Simone Gramaglia / viola
Giovanni Scaglione / cello

photo: Nikolaj Lund
Programme:
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade for String Quartet in G major
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major
Giuseppe Verdi: String Quartet in E minor
Since its inception in the year 2000, Quartetto di Cremona has built a reputation as an accomplished and avant-garde chamber ensemble. Our Festival is also proud to point out the fact that the quartet’s viola player – Simone Gramaglia – is among the dramaturges of this year’s edition. The dramaturgic experience is also interwoven in the concert’s programme: Hugo Wolf’s one-movement Italian Serenade will ease us into the performance, followed by Ravel’s impressionistically rich String Quartet, and marking the end of a vibrant music journey is Giuseppe Verdi’s only purely instrumental work, widely regarded as the vivid embodiment of Italian musical spirit.
in a partnership with
Concert of the National Heritage Institute
Cristiano Gualco, Paolo Andreoli / violin
Simone Gramaglia / viola
Giovanni Scaglione / cello

photo: Nikolaj Lund

Programme:
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
in a partnership with
David Pokorný, Vladimír, Klánský / violin
Alexej Aslamas / viola
Vít Petrášek / cello

photo: Jan Přerovský
Programme:
Dick Dale: Misirlou
Alexej Aslamas: LIDOVQUE I
Pat Metheny: Minuano
Darol Anger: Grant Wood
Astor Piazzolla: Ave Maria
Alexej Aslamas: LIDOVQUE II
Vladimir Cosma: Grand Blond with Black Shoe
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Klaudius Kováč / piano
Tomáš Baroš / double bass
Marián Ševčík / drums


Programme:
Claude Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Trio
George Gershwin: Three Preludes
Pavel Klimashevsky: Between Worlds world premiere, commisioned by the festival
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.
7 pm
Jihlava
Town-hall, Gothic Hall
Alina Ibragimova, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux / violin
Emilie Hörnlund / viola
Claire Thirion / cello

Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No.16 in F major, Op. 135
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
6 pm
Kroměříž
Chateau, Gallery
Arola Quartet (CH)
Quartetto di Genova (IT)
Kubita Quartet (CZ)
Suk Quartet (CZ)
This performance of four up-and-coming quartets will draw a line to a number of masterclasses, that will take place on the days 16. – 18. 6. in the breathtaking town of Kroměříž. These masterclasses will be led by well-respected professors of chamber music – Petr Jarůšek, Pavel Nikl, and Simone Gramaglia.
The masterclasses and the subsequent concert are a fitting way to fulfil the memorandum of cooperation established between the festival Concentus Moraviae and the Stauffer Foundation. This foundation is based in Cremona, Italy, and is well-known for its prestigious academy, Accademia Stauffer, which is dedicated to teaching the mastery of string instruments. It also plays an important role in preserving the unique violin-making traditions, that made Cremona famous worldwide. As part of this collaboration, Kroměříž will welcome the Arola Quartet and the Quartetto di Genova from the Accademia Stauffer. Joining them in this unique project are two carefully selected quartets chosen by Concentus Moraviae: the Kubita Quartet and the Suk Quartet.
More detailed programme of the performance will be posted during April.
in a partnership with
Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier / violin
Franck Chevalier / viola
Alexis Descharmes / cello
foto: Michel Nguyen
Programme:
Pierre Boulez: 1a & 1b (from: Livre pour quatuor)
Gérard Pesson: String Quartet No. 2 Bitume
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann / violin
Xiang Lyu / viola
Mark Schumann / cello
photo: Eva Maria Richter
Programme:
Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41
Aribert Reimann: Adagio „In memory of Robert Schumann“
Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Sonoko Miriam Welde, Edvard Erdal / violin
Albin Uusijärvi / viola
Daniel Thorell / cello
photo: Elvira Glänte
Concert is held in a partnership with the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition; this performance is one of the prizes Opus13 have won as the Absolute Winners of the competition in the year 2025.
Programme:
Britta Byström: Images From The Floating World
Edvard Grieg: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 27
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Jakub Fišer, Štěpán Ježek / violin
Jiří Pinkas / viola
Štěpán Doležal / cello
photo: Milan Mošna
Programme:
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 “The Kreuzer Sonata”
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.
Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan / violin
Jeremy Berry / viola
Estelle Choi / cello

photo: Marco Borggreve
Programme:
Samuel Barber: String Quartet B minor, Op. 11
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 34
John Williams: With Malice Toward None (from the movie Lincoln)
Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No. 1 „At the Octoroon Balls“
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
7:30 pm
Telč
Manor House
Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan / violin
Jeremy Berry / viola
Estelle Choi / cello
photo: Marco Borggreve
Programme:
Samuel Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 34
John Williams: With Malice Toward None (from the movie Lincoln)
Wynton Marsalis: String Quartet No. 1 „At the Octoroon Balls“
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.
in a partnership with
Amaury Coeytaux, Loic Rio / violin
Laurent Marfaing / viola
François Kieffer / cello

photo: Jérôme Bonnet
Programme:
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2 “Lobkowitz”
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Amaury Coeytaux, Loic Rio / violin
Laurent Marfaing / viola
François Kieffer / cello
photo: Jérôme Bonnet
Programme:
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No. 2 “Lobkowitz”
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Ticket prices: full price 350 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 250 CZK.
Marc Danel, Gilles Millet / violin
Vlad Bogdanas / viola
Yovan Markovitch / cello

photo: Marco Borggreve
Programme:
Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6 in E minor, Op. 35
Dmitrij Šostakovič: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Ticket prices: full price 300 CZK / discounted price (senior/student/PWD) 200 CZK.
7 pm
Wilfersdorf / Lower Austria
St. Nicholas Church

photo: Jan Houda
František Souček, Petr Střížek / violin
Petr Holman / viola
Vladimír Fortin / cello

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana: Evening Songs (selection, arr. Martin Wiesner)
Antonín Dvořák: Love Songs Op. 83 (selection, arr. Aleš Březina)
Leoš Janáček: Youth (arr. Kryštof Mařatka for string quartet)
Leoš Janáček: Moravian folk Poetry in Songs (selection, arr. Vladimír Godár)
Bohuslav Martinů: “Thésée, je respire une dernière fois…” (from the opera Ariadne H 370, arr. Martin Wiesner)
Bedřich Smetana: “If I should ever…” (from the opera The Bartered Bride, arr. Martin Wiesner)
Antonín Dvořák: “Song to the Moon” (from the opera Rusalka Op. 114, arr. Martin Wiesner)