Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava

Winner of the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, young pianist Alexandra Stychkina will bring an emotive and virtuosic program to Ostrava. The evening opens with Janáček’s ballad 1 October 1905 and Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata No. 2—two works composed in the wake of tragic events. The second half of the concert will offer a romantic atmosphere of forest nooks in piano cycles by Schumann and Liszt, culminating in Liszt’s famous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15.

An evening of powerful stories and the joy of making music. The program features Bohuslav Martinů’s symphonic prelude The Rock, inspired by American settlers, Witold Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto performed by JFO’s artist-in-residence Johannes Moser, and Antonín Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony — a celebration of Czech musicality, warmth, and vitality. The orchestra will be led by Ingo Metzmacher.

For his first chamber evening in Ostrava, JFO resident soloist Johannes Moser has invited violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Andrei Korobeininkov. Together they will perform two masterpieces of piano trio: Schubert’s lyrical and moving E flat major, one of the pillars of chamber music, and Tchaikovsky’s deeply personal, passionate composition dedicated to the memory of his friend Nikolai Rubinstein.

In his Symphony The Age of Anxiety, Leonard Bernstein combines the depth of post-war existential questions with a virtuosic piano part, which will be performed in Ostrava by Claire Huangci. Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony then offers a nostalgic return to Russian musical roots, interwoven with emotion and the beauty of a lost homeland.