Siebeneichener Quartett and Pavel Nikl will play Brahms Quintet
Concert programme:
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters".
Johannes Brahms: String Quintet No. 2, Op. 111
The Siebeneichener Quartett was founded in the autumn of 2023 by students of the Prague Conservatory under the artistic direction of Prof. Radim Sedmidubsky. Shortly after its formation, the quartet participated in the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation 2023 Competition, where, in addition to the first prize, it received the prize for the best participant in the competition and the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation Prize. Members of the quartet are scholarship holders of the Academy of Chamber Music, which provides concert opportunities with leading Czech and international soloists and chamber musicians as part of a three-year programme. In 2024, the Siebeneichener Quartett participated in a masterclass with Aretha Zhulla, principal violinist of the famous Juilliard String Quartet, at whose invitation they were invited to participate in masterclasses at the Juilliard School in New York the following year. They also took courses with Fedor Rudin, former concertmaster of the Wiener Philharmoniker. The quartet has performed at the South Bohemia Chamber Festival, Bohuslav Martinů Days in Prague and at the Ševčík Music Evenings in Horažďovice. In the 2025/26 season they will perform at the Festival of Music in Prague under the patronage of Václav Hudeček, or at the Zlatá Pecka festival in Pardubice. Siebeneichener Quartett is the resident ensemble of the Celetná Salon for the 2025/26 season.
Violist Pavel Nikl is a top chamber musician and soloist. He studied viola at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Prof. Jan Pěruška and Prof. Milan Škampa. He has won prizes at international competitions (e.g. the masterclasses in Semmering for the best performance of works by B. Bartók and B. Martinů, 2nd prize in the J. Brahms competition in Pörtschach). As a soloist, he has collaborated, among others, with the B. Martinů Zlín, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, South Bohemian Philharmonic České Budějovice and conductors Tomáš Netopil and Jan Talich. In 2002, the focus of his activities shifted to chamber music, when he became one of the founding members of the Pavel Haas Quartet, which soon became one of the world's leading string quartets. Since 2016, after finishing his career as a violist in the Pavel Haas Quartet, he has been a professor of viola and chamber music at the P. J. Vejvanovský Conservatory in Kroměříž. However, he still works very closely with the ensemble and continues to give occasional concerts with it, apart from the recording of the Dvořák Quintets, which received the 2018 Gramophone Award. As an experienced chamber musician, he is invited to festivals and chamber concerts at home and abroad to collaborate with other top musicians such as Gill Shaham, Kian Soltani, Josef Špaček, Gerhard Oppitz and others. He also serves as a member of competition juries.
