{"id":49,"date":"2022-06-05T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peruska.cz\/testuji\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2023-02-03T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:50:10","slug":"biografie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peruska.cz\/en\/biografie\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JAN P\u011aRU\u0160KA (born in Opava, 1951) is a prominent representative of the Czech viola school. He studied at the Conservatory in Ostrava in the class of Miroslav N\u011bmec, followed by studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of prof. Jaroslav Motl\u00edk. During the years 1977 \u2013 1985 he was the solo violist of the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Real landmark was 1981, when P\u011bru\u0161ka won the 1st prize at the prestigious International Viola Competition in Markneukirchen (Germany), which has made him a sought after soloist. He has collaborated with a great number of an outstanding musicians such as Josef Suk, Jan Panenka, Josef H\u00e1la, Dagmar Peckov\u00e1 and also with prominent ensmebles like the Talich Quartet, Kocian Quartet or the Pra\u017e\u00e1k Quartet. As a soloist he has appeared with the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan\u00e1\u010dek Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His solo repertoire comprises early Baroque compositions up to contemporary composers. P\u011bru\u0161ka\u2019s outstanding interpretation has been captured on more than 120 CDs and around 450 recordings for radio and television. At present he records major works of Czech and international viola repertoire. His CDs (Masterpieces for viola and double bass, Beautiful viola, Russian viola, The viola of Bohuslav Martin\u016f, Praise of viola, The unknown Czech viola, Viola of the Czech Emigration, and Viola e Contrabbasso Concertanti) have attracted lots of attention. The CD Tempers of the Contemporary Viola was chosen as the TIP of the month February 2011 by the Czech magazine Harmonie<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a founding member of the Stamic Quartet (since 1985). Only a year after the quartet’s foundation, the ensemble won the International Competition of String Quartets in Salzburg (1986) organized by the EBU-OIRT. During the 38 years of its activity, the Stamic Quartet has performed more than 2500 concerts all over the world. The quartet also won many important awards, such as the Prize of the Czech Chamber Music Society (1987), Grand Prix du Disque de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros (1988, 1991), Diapason d\u2019or (1993), Golden Song Prize for a recording of Chinese melodies (1995), Prize of the Czech Music Council for complete recordings of Alois H\u00e1ba’s string quartets at the Prague Spring Festival in 1997 or the Diapason Decouverte for complete recordings of the J. B. Foerster’s string quartets, granted by the journal Diapason<\/em> (2010). Their CD with Sofia Gubaidulina\u2019s complete string quartets was chosen as the best recording (IRR OUTSTANDING) by the British magazine International Record Review<\/em> (March 2012) and it was also recommended as the editor\u2019s TIP in the magazine Harmonie <\/em>(June 2012). The CD with Karel Kova\u0159ovic\u2019s complete string quartets was chosen as the Recording of the Week by Presto Classical<\/em> (July 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1990 P\u011bru\u0161ka has been teaching at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2006 he obtained professorship of viola, awarded by the President of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JAN P\u011aRU\u0160KA (born in Opava, 1951) is a prominent representative of the Czech viola school. He studied at the Conservatory in Ostrava in the class of Miroslav N\u011bmec, followed by studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of prof. Jaroslav Motl\u00edk. During the years 1977 \u2013 1985 he was the…
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