Concert of the winners of last year's Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition will present the best of Czech cello and vocal school. Young talented artists on the beginning of their careers will perform pieces by Bohuslav Martinů and the core repertoire of their fields.

Adam Klánský prepared the Sonata for cello and piano No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The composer dedicated the piece to the music-loving Countess Marie von Erdödy, a benefactress and confidante of the composer. Beethoven would often stay at her country estate north of Vienna. It was she who secured the composer’s livelihood by persuading members of the imperial court to grant him a lifelong pension. The freedom of creation enabled the composer to differentiate his compositions individually and uniquely, shifting the form and style of Classicism to the threshold of Romanticism.

Vilém Vlček will play the Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 that Martinů wrote in 1941. He just arrived as a war refugee to New York, where he began to compose new music – epic, malleable, emotionally tinged, well ordered. Sonata is dedicated to the Czech American Frank Rybka, an organist and cellist who helped Martinů greatly in his first months in the New World.

Baritone Robin Červinek won in the vocal category. He persuaded the judges with his energetic rendition of Martinů’s New Slovan Songs and the the Carrousel of Life cycle by Viktor Kalabis. Both compositions will be pefromed along with well-known opera arias by Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The duets from The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute will be performer with the soprano Ivana Pavlů.