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Choose SubscriptionVilém Veverka and Kateřina Englichová have long cultivated a reputation as artists unbound by convention. In the final concert of the DK series, they return us once more to Le Tombeau de Couperin—this time in an unconventional arrangement. Familiar themes take on new colours in a harp Fantasy on Má vlast, while contemporary music close to the performers’ hearts is represented by Wajsar’s Miniature.
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Maurice Ravel (arr. by Otomar Kvěch)
Le Tombeau de Couperin – The Tomb of Couperin
Ilja Hurník
Tombeau de Köchel for oboe and harp
Bedřich Smetana (arr. by Hanuš Jan Trneček)
Fantasia on the symphonic poem Vltava
Petr Wajsar
Miniature for oboe and harp
Kateřina Englichová harp
Vilém Veverka oboe
Kateřina Englichová harp
Kateřina Englichová, winner of a Prague Classic Award, is a performer of renown all around Europe. She works with important artists and ensembles in this country and abroad, and she is invited to sit on juries at international competitions (including the Israel Harp Competition, the world’s most prestigious competition for harpists).
She studied at the Prague Conservatoire and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia; in the summer of 2017 she completed her post-graduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She is now the professor of harp at the Prague Conservatoire and leads masterclasses in this country and abroad (USA, Canada, UK, Hong Kong etc.).
She also devotes herself to contemporary music and has premiered a number of works, including some written for her. She has recorded more than 40 CDs (including the Ceremony of Carols by B. Britten with the Kühn Children’s Choir and Jiří Chvála). Last year she recorded three “Covid” CDs; she will be celebrating the release of the first of them with the soprano Kateřina Kněžíková at the festival Smetana’s Litomyšl in June 2022.
Vilém Veverka oboe
Vilém Veverka and Kateřina Englichová have long cultivated a reputation as artists unbound by convention. In the final concert of the DK series, they return us once more to Le Tombeau de Couperin—this time in an unconventional arrangement. Familiar themes take on new colours in a harp Fantasy on Má vlast, while contemporary music close to the performers’ hearts is represented by Wajsar’s Miniature.
