Sunday, 9/15/2024
at 7:30 PM


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Conducted by Gudni Emilsson

Works by:
Leos Janacek: Suite for String Orchestra
Marin Marais: "La Folia" Theme and Variations for Cello and Strings
Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings Op. 6

Soloist: Tomas Strasil (Violoncello)

The chamber orchestra, founded in Prague in 2002, was established on the initiative of the award-winning cellist Tomas Strasil, whose main goal was to create an ensemble that would accompany his solo performances. The selection of professional musicians from Prague gave the ensemble a much higher potential, enabling them to interpret important works of international and Czech composers for the appropriate arrangement in a unique way.

A significant impulse for the development of the ensemble came from the collaboration with Icelandic conductor Gudni A. Emilsson. Several artistic projects were realized by the orchestra under his direction, leading to a permanent collaboration that began in 2005. In addition to concerts in the Czech Republic, the ensemble has performed in Luxembourg and Switzerland, and now regularly performs in Germany. In 2007, they opened the International Music Festival in Oberstdorf in the presence of the Bavarian Radio.

Gudni A. Emilsson received his first music lessons from his father at the age of four. As a grantee of the Icelandic state, he completed his piano and conducting studies at the State University of Music in Trossingen. He was awarded by the German Music Council and selected to conduct at the Gewandhaus Leipzig.

Emilsson won international prizes in competitions and received scholarships from DAAD, the Icelandic foundation LIND, and the Richard Wagner Foundation in Bayreuth. In 1994, he was a prize winner of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Salzburg. In 2002, he was awarded the Masaryk Artist Prize for innovative programs and projects.

From 2002 to 2004, he was the chief conductor of the Suk Chamber Orchestra in Prague, which performed at the "Prague Spring" festival. Since 1999, he has been the artistic director of the Tübingen Chamber Orchestra. He is also the artistic director of the Camerata Bohemica Prague and, with the support of the Thai government and the Goethe Institute, was appointed chief conductor of the newly established Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in Bangkok in 2005. Emilsson is also the cultural representative of the Museum Society Tübingen e. V. and head of the Cultural Department at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

In 2016, Emilsson made his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London.

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