A. Dvořák: Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in B minor, Op. 104

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J. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Cellist Boris Andrianov is a winner of the bronze medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, a laureate of the International Shostakovich Competition Classica Nova in Hannover, and the first Russian cellist to become a laureate at the 6th International Rostropovich Competition in Paris. He has performed with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko and Krzysztof Penderecky; has played chamber music with Yuri Bashmet, Janine Jansen and Julian Rachlin and in halls such as the Moscow Philharmonic Hall and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, the Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Tokyo’s Opera City Hall. His CD of sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich was selected as “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone. Since 2009 he has been a professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

Christian Schulz comes from a well-known Viennese family of musicians and started his musical career of cellist with violoncello studies. Later on he studied conducting. He studied both these specializations at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He performs as a chamber musician, soloist and recently has performed as cellist with the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra. In1997 he founded the Ambassade Orchester Wien with the members of the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and is still their artistic director. Schulz has been assistant to star conductors Vladimir Fedoseyev, Yakov Kreizberg und Franz-Welser Möst. He has performed with renowned orchestras including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Halle, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Nürnberg Symphonic and last but not least, the Viennese Symphonic Orchestra. He made an appearance as a conductor at the Bregenzer Festspiele. He cooperates with the Wiener Concert Verein orchestra. They have given joint concerts at the Wiener Musikverein and at other venues and the joint cooperation also resulted in a few CD recordings. Christian Schulz has been First Guest Conductor at the State Philharmonic Arad in Romania since 2003 and in 2005 he was appointed Principal Conductor at the Mozart Collegium Vienna. He holds the position of Music Director of the concert series “Schwingungen” at the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. Christian Schulz was responsible for the return and staging of the Zauberflöte on the stage of the opera house Wiener Volksoper in the 2007/2008 season. Since 2010 he has been general director of the Musical Program of the OKF Teheran. Apart from his occupation as a conductor, Christian Schulz writes his own compositions.

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, whose tradition goes back to 1926, is one of the leading and also longest established Czech ensembles. It has gained an important place on the Czech concert scene thanks to its ever-increasing artistic standard. The orchestra is also a welcome guest in many concert halls abroad. Through the EU’s European Musical Exchange the orchestra’s recordings reach hundreds of thousands of listeners all over Europe and overseas.