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Follow my blog with Bloglovin  (c) TVW   The Czech Philharmonic never tires in its search for new talent. It offers its audiences a glimpse into the world of international competitions and the budding careers of their winners whose performances energize and freshen up its own playing and help keep the Philharmonic in top musical shape. For its concert on February 18, 2017, part of the series called “Discoveries”, the orchestra has chosen the best of the best, inviting one of the brightest stars of the contemporary cello scene, Andrei Ioniţă from Romania. Andrei Ioniţă only celebrated his twenty-second birthday last year, but his name has already shot up to prominence in the international press. In 2013 he won the Aram Khachaturian International Competition. A year later he was awarded second prize and a special prize in the ARD Music Competition in Munich, second prize in Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann ...

(c) Jan Klimeš The cornetto player Richard Šeda lives in South Bohemia, far away from the major musical centres. Only once, so as to study at a conservatory, has he strayed from his native town of Dačice. Afterwards, he began teaching at the local music school. The still waters, however, were markedly rippled by his steadfast interest in early music. A fascination with the cornetto drove him, initially a trumpeter, to relentless studies of this instrument and has ultimately turned him into an absolute master. At the present time, the name of Richard Šeda appears in numerous concert programmes across Europe, yet concurrently remains connected with “his” Dačice.   This is an excerpt of an interview which is published here with a kind permission of Czech Music Quaterly magazine 1/2016.   What was your journey from the trumpet to the cornetto, and to early music in general, like? The journey started back during the time of my studies at the České Budějo...