The festival will offer a total of 13 concerts. As always, the opening opera gala concert will be the dominant feature of the IMF and this year it will belong to soprano Sumi Jo and her guest, Italian tenor Danilo Formaggia. They will be accompanied by the residential ensemble of the festival – the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Petr Vronský.
The festival will also offer four concerts at the Castle Riding Hall – a symphony concert of the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Manuel Hernández-Silva, a performance of the icon of the Czech violin school Václav Hudeček with pianist Jan Simon and the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia under the leadership of Vojtěch Spurný, a concert of one of the most sought-after Czech artists, violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl, who will also perform together with the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia and conductor Jan Talich and the closing concert will present successful Czech soloists of the youngest generation of interpreters. It will be an opportunity for prestigious laureates of international music competitions, violinists Jan Mráček and Ji Man Wee from South Korea, who will perform with the accompaniment of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia under the baton of Mario Košík.
The program of the 24th year of the festival will also offer five concerts of the traditional chamber series. Guitarist Lubomír Brabec will perform at the Masquerade Hall and the ensembles Trio Thalia, Barocco Sempre Giovane and Mucha Quartet with music mime Vladimír Kulíšek. The program will not omit historically informed performance of baroque music which will be interpreted by the Musica Florea ensemble with countertenor Roger O. Isaac.
Evenings during which music surpasses strictly set borders also belong to the atmosphere of summer concerts. And so even this year’s program will offer three treats of these music styles under the open skies. In the splendid setting of the Kooperativa Garden the “Tango Argentino” concert interpreted by the Escualo Quintet will take place. The IMF Český Krumlov continues in the trend of presenting world musical repertoire with an original interpretation. A trio of excellent American singers accompanied by the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice will take the audience to the Broadway theatre stages and the glittering world of American musicals during their concert. The concert will be performed by outstanding singers – Debbie Gravitte, Capathia Jenkins and Hugh Panaro, Broadway stars who master the most difficult roles of the musical genre. In Český Krumlov they will present a program called “James Bond Music and World Musicals”. A traditional evening of music and gastronomy is also prepared, this time in the Cuban spirit.
The complete program may be found on our website http://www.festivalkrumlov.cz/en in the Program section. One of the concerts is traditionally dedicated to the IMF Český Krumlov Friends Club – this time it will be the concert of violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl on 31st July 2015 at the Castle Riding Hall. Club members have free admission to this concert or a significant discount, according to the type of membership card (you can find more detailed information on http://www.festivalkrumlov.cz/o-nas/klub-pratel-mhf-ck). Tickets to all concerts after the program changes are available on http://www.festivalkrumlov.cz/en/tickets.
Information about the refund or exchange of the tickets for the concerts which were cancelled or rescheduled will be provided in the coming days.
Thank you for your support. We believe that in spite of the partial changes you will be able to choose from the program of the IMF ČK 2015 and that the festival concerts will be a great musical feast for you once again.