Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): The Four Seasons for solo violin, strings and harpsichord Op. 8

Interval

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741):  Concerto for Strings in C major, RV 114
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D major, Op. 6
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048

Da Yoon You, born on August 7, 2001, showed his musical talent from an early age, when he started playing the violin and won many prizes in various national competitions.  His efforts resulted in his honourable admission to Yewon School, one of the most famous art and music middle schools in South Korea, with the highest score in the audition.  Violinist You has been taught by professor Bonjiu Koo for a number of years and has attended Korea National University of Arts, Education Centre for the Gifted in Arts (since 2012) and Seoul Arts Centre Academy for the Gifted (2008~2011). This year Da Yoon You will be admitted to Korea National University of Arts as a talented student. In addition, the young musician has started to make a name for himself as a concert artist. He appeared with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra in the Smetana Hall in Prague in 2016.  It is no surprise that You was selected as one of the talented violinists in Korea after being nominated by several classical music companies and top educational institutions.

Jan Talich graduated from the Prague Conservatory and later studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Václav Snítil’s class. He received a scholarship in the USA under Samuel Ashkenasi and later at the English Guildhall School of Music under Yfrah Neaman. As a soloist he has played with orchestras all over Europe and also in the USA. His discography includes several CDs with concerts of Czech and world composers. In 1992 he founded the Talich Chamber Orchestra, where he holds the position of artistic director and conductor. Jan Talich was also a founding member of the Kubelik Trio. In 1997 he left the trio for the post of first violinist in the Talich Quartet, which belongs to the leading world ensembles in this field. He regularly performs at such famous European concert halls like Wigmore Hall, Beethovenhaus, Hercules Sal, Concertgebouw, Chatelet, Theatre de Champs-Elysée and Carnegie Hall. In recent years Jan Talich has been increasingly focusing on his conducting career not only with the Talich Chamber Orchestra but is regularly asked to conduct orchestra both in the Czech Republic and abroad. He has been the chief conductor of the South Czech Philharmonic since the 2008/2009 season.

The South Czech Philharmonic was founded in 1981 in České Budějovice under the original name South Bohemia State Orchestra. Currently it has 37 members and continues to be the only professional philharmonic orchestra in the South Bohemian Region. Conductor Jaroslav Vodňanský stood at the birth of the orchestra and later was replaced in the position of chief conductor by Ondřej Kukal, Břetislav Novotný, Jaroslav Krček and Stanislav Vavřínek. Jan Talich has been the chief conductor since 2008. Besides the natural interpretation of music by classical composers and compositions suitable for smaller orchestras and a small concert hall, the orchestra increasingly follows the current trend of connecting genres, discovering new views on interpretation and presentation and systematically works on achieving ever-higher quality. Most of the musicians are young, ambitious, skilful and promising interpreters who really welcome any further opportunity to cooperate with leading conductors and soloists. The ambition of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia is to maintain the interest of the current subscribers and at the same time focus on the younger audience and wider public to convince even those South Bohemians who have avoided classical music so far to come to their concerts. It surely has the capacity, direction and zest to achieve that.