TP-LEOŠ JANÁČEK: LISTY DŮVĚRNÉ
CONFIDENTIAL LETTERS : The show will present selected love letters from Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslová and immortal music from his piano work
Terezia Fialová - piano
Petr Štěpánek - artistic presentation
Organizer : UFFO under the auspices of the city of Trutnov
Patron of the concert : Ecological development and construction sro
Tuesday, November 12 ** UFFO ** 7:00 p.m. ** entrance fee CZK 290 ** advance ticket sales from September 2
Program :
L. Janacek
piano cycle In the mists (selection)
L. Janacek
piano cycle After an overgrown footpath (selection)
L. Janacek
Piano Sonata IX 1905 "From the Street"
Leoš Janáček: Confidential letters
The story of a composer who, at the end of his life, rewrites musical history with original compositions full of unique combinations of beauty, sadness, defiance and nostalgia.
The program entitled Listy privánné will present listeners with selected love letters from Leoš Janáček to Kamila Stösslova and immortal music from his piano works. Czech acting legend Petr Štěpánek as the aging Leoš Janáček and pianist Terezia Fialová as the composer's youthful muse Kamila are separated by a similar age difference as the main "protagonists". What unites them, however, is a passion for expression, a feeling for the phrase and humility for the text.
During the approximately seventy-minute evening, you will hear a reading of Leoš Janáček's personal love correspondence from about half a year before his death, and you will hear in them not only the ordinary worries and joys of a genius, but also the flare-up of life and his feelings for Kamila. The unifying element of the letters is Janáček's work on the String Quartet Listy prýdné, which not only gave the name to this program, but also became one of the most famous and most played quartets in the world. All this combined with piano compositions by Leoš Janáček.
Terezia Fialová
She is a sought-after chamber partner of many leading soloists. She made her debut with the orchestra when she was twelve years old, and until her twenties she also devoted herself to playing the violin on an international scale.
She studied piano and violin at the Brno Conservatory. She is a graduate of piano performance at Prague's HAMU (Ivan Klánský) and chamber performance at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (Niklas Schmidt). She is a laureate of international competitions in Italy, the Netherlands and Russia. She participated in master classes led by Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Radosz, Joseph Kalichstein, Valentin Erben, Markus Tomas, Emanuel Ax, etc.
He performs at international festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Prague Spring, Dvořák's Prague, Moravian Autumn, Janáčkův maj, Smetanova Litomyšl, Lipa Musica, Festival Český Krumlov, Kutná Hora International Festival, Sarajevo Winter, Konvergencie Bratislava, Bach Before&After Istanbul, Les Flaneries de Musicales Reims, Arte sacro Madrid, etc.).
At the 2019 Prague Spring festival, in collaboration with the Symphony Orchestra, she performed Prague FOK and conductor Pietari Inkinen's extremely demanding Peter Eben Piano Concerto, in the same year as a member of the Eben Trio she gave the Czech premiere of the Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra "L' Isolla della Cita" by the award-winning Danish author Bent Sørensen. The Eben Trio forms together with violinist Roman Patočka and cellist Jiří Bárta. The ensemble is the recipient of the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society Award and won the international competition of chamber ensembles in Lausanne, Switzerland. Together they played on important stages, such as the Auditorium de Louvre in Paris, the Gasteig in Munich, the Laeszhalle in Hamburg, in the chamber series of the Kennedy Center in Washington, in the National Hall of Performing Arts in Beijing or in the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai.
As the only Czech pianist, Terezie participated in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy 2013 in Switzerland and was invited again in 2017. She achieved success at the international chamber music festival in Newport, USA.
She participated in the recording of three CDs. Dedicated to composer Petr Eben, the record won the "Recording of the Months" and "IRR Outstanding" awards on the UK music website. She premiered a piano quartet by the English composer Edward Nesbit and a piece for cello and piano "Smutek utek" by Martin Smolka. In composed programs of music and words, she collaborated with important Czech actors Saša Rašilov, Josef Somr, Petr Štěpánek, etc.
In 2021, together with the cellist Jiří Bárta, she released 2 CDs of complete Beethoven Sonatas for piano and cello, in April 2024, the CD "Janáček" was released, on which she again collaborated with Jiří Bárta. She led master classes at the music universities in Amman and Bethlehem. He is currently studying for a PhD in the field of Interpretation and Theory of Interpretation at HAMU in Prague.
Petr Stepanek
He comes from a famous theater family. In the years 1966–1970, he studied drama acting at DAMU. Already during his studies, he was a guest at the Na Zabradlí Theater and the National Theatre, where he was hired after graduation. He appeared on the stages of the National Theater until 1993.
Since then, he has collaborated with various ensembles, most often with the Karlín Musical Theatre, the Municipal Theaters of Prague and the Ungelt Theatre. Above all, he played significant roles in the Czech and international repertoire at the National Theatre, in total he has more than a hundred diverse roles to his credit (in the National Theatre, for example, Kristián in Cyrano from Bergerac, Vilík in The Moon over the River, Ivolgin in The Idiot, Albert Gregor in The Makropulos Case, etc.).
After leaving the National Theater, he also began to devote himself to musicals (in Karlín, for example, as Karel IV in Noci na Karlštejn or Bialystok in Producers, in the Broadway Theater as Emperor Rudolf II in Golem). Mainly in the chamber repertoire, he appears in MDP (A well-played part, Úsměv Dafná, Hour before the wedding). He collaborated for the first time with the Studio DVA theater on the theatrical adaptation of the world bestseller Misery.
It is widely used in film and television. He first appeared in front of the camera as a sixteen-year-old (Every Young Man, 1965). He has many roles behind him - including serial ones. The most famous are his fairy-tale or other romantic characters (George from the fairy tale Goldilocks or the knight Des Grieux from Manon Lescaut).