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Milan langer
Chief of the piano department at the Prague Conservatory
Pianist Milan Langer /*1955 in Prague/ belongs to leading Czech music interpreters, he cooperates with prominent soloists and chamber ensembles. He has performed at concerts in most countries of Europe, in America, Kuwait, Japan, South Korea etc. While he studied at the Prague Conservatoire and at the Academy of Performing Arts with Valentina Kameníková he also took part in piano master courses with František Rauch /Weimar, Germany Německo/ and Guido Agosti /Siena, Italy/. He participated with success in numerous piano competitions, including the prestigious international competition events such as Bolzano, Santander, Moscow and the "Prague Spring" Competition, and has several laureate titles to his name. He has won Czech national competitions - the Smetana Competition in Hradec Králové and the Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně. Playing in the piano trio, however, has become his foremost activity - he has been member of the Czech Trio since 1994. Out of more than 30 music mediums /LP, CD/, which realization he participated in, and besides 9 CDs recorded with the Czech Trio /Bohemia Music, Supraphon, Arco Diva/, an exceptional attention was lately won for example by his solo recordings of the Piano Fugues by A. Rejcha and the Eclogues by V. J. Tomášek /Supraphon/ or in the USA edited "Dream Voyages for Piano" - compositions by the contemporary American composer Carl Vollrath /MMC Recording's/. A large sense also has his activity as a teacher and organizer. Since 1998 Milan Langer teaches the piano-solo and the chamber music at the Prague Conservatory /now in the grade of a piano department head/, both Czech and foreign students. He is the initiator and the main organizer of the project supporting young pianists from 12 to 18 years The Young Piano of the Prague Conservatory and he also founded International Summer Piano Courses of The Prague Conservatory in 2008 which used to be now regularly held on the ground of this Central European famous music school /founded 1811/ every year. He leads master-courses and seminars abroad too /USA, South Korea, Japan, Norway, Ukraine/ and is a frequent member of juries of piano and chamber music competitions.
Vladimir Kharin
MDW , universität für Musik und darstellende kunst Wein
Vladimir Kharin began his musical education at the age of 6 years at the Central Music Special School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for specially gifted children. He gave his first piano recital at the age of eleven and made his orchestra debut at the age of 13. He then studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Jevgeni Malinin and Lev Naumov (both students of Heinrich Neuhaus), which he graduated with Distinction. Many of his concerts were broadcast live on Russian TV and Radio. He continued his studies and took the “Konzertexamen” (also with distinction) with Michael Roll and Boris Bloch at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as with master classes with Vitaly Margulis, Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitri Bashkirov. Vladimir Kharin was invited to the concert halls of Germany, the CIS states, France, Italy, Japan, China and Indonesia as a laureate of international competitions with recitals and chamber music, as well as concerts with orchestra. He has appeared several times with recitals at the Ruhr Piano Festival and has recorded several CDs, including together with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jonathan Darlington. Vladimir Kharin focuses on his teaching activities, which he began in 2005 at the Folkwang University of the Arts as an assistant to Boris Bloch. Since 2009 he became the director for piano instruction for particularly gifted children and young people at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His students attracted attention at international competitions with several first prizes. Kharin is a highly sought-after jury member at competitions, to which he is regularly a part of, all-throughout Europe, as well as in the Far East, along with giving concert performances and master classes.
Mgr. Inna Aslamas
Professor at the Brno Conservatory in Czech Republic
Mgr. Inna Aslamas comes from Russia. After graduating from the Kazan Academy of Music, she worked as a professor at the music gymnasium in Cheboksary. She established herself as a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles. She recorded a wide range of repertoire for Russian TV and Radio. In 1994, she moved to the Czech Republic, where she was awarded several times for her piano collaboration at interpretation courses, competitions and international festivals (Concertino Praga, Moravian Autumn, Ohrid Summer etc.). She regularly records for Czech Radio.
Since 1997, she has been accepted as a professor at the Brno Conservatory, and is currently the head of the piano department.
Her students successfully participate in international piano competitions, such as: Prague junior note (Prague), Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte (Ústí nad Labem), Pro Bohemia (Ostrava), Schubert International Piano Duo Competition (Jeseník), Smetana International Piano Competition (Plzen), EPTA International Piano Competition (Osijek, Croatia), Novi Sad International Piano Competition (Serbia), Macedonium M International Piano Competition (Skopje), Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica (Varalo, Italy), Klavierpodium der Jugend (Munich) and others.
Inna Aslamas was invited to juries of numerous international piano competitions in the Czech Republic, Russia and Germany.
Jan Jiraský
Professor at the Brno Conservatory in Czech Republic
During his studies at Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in the 1990´s, Jan Jiraský became a laureate of a number European international piano competitions. This brought him invitations to concert stages and recording studios. In 1994 he recorded CD debut (label Musica, Vienna), in 1996 performed a debut recital in Czech Philharmonic and in 2001 debuted at Prague Spring festival. He became a regular guest on festival stages and philharmonic houses (Stefaniensaal Graz, Moyzes Hall Bratislava, Rudolfinum Prague, Besední dům Brno, Janáček Theatre, Kongres-Zentrum Saarbrücken, Ernst Abbe Saal Jena, Robert Schumann Saal Dresden, Orangerie Darmstadt, Paleis Het Loo Apeldoorn, Archcathedral Lublin, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos Lisbon, Beijing National Orchestra Hall etc.). Performing a repertoire of thirty piano concertos, he collaborated with dozens of leading conductors (Ch. Arming, J. Bělohlávek, D. Bostock, A. Ceccato, G. Emilsson, J. Hrůša, A. Tali etc.). In 2000 he won the prestigious Czech Classic Award by Czech Music Fund (live broadcast of 3rd Martinů Piano Concerto with Jiří Bělohlávek and Hummel Piano concerto in A minor with Virtuosi di Praga). In 2004, he recorded Janáček's complete piano works twice, on Janáček´s own piano 1876 and modern piano (labels ArcoDiva and Radioservis) with international critical acclaim (Musicweb International, Mostly Classic, Record Geijutsu, Asahi Shimbun, Harmonie, Opus musicum etc.). Also praised was a set of 18 Mozart sonatas in four recitals using period and modern instrument in 2006 or Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier played by heart (2007 „Světová klavírní tvorba“ in Dvořák Hall of Rudolfinum Prague, 2015 Brno Philharmonic Hall, 2017 Beijing National Music Orchestra Hall a. o.). In the field of chamber music, Jiraský has collaborated with the Janáček Quartet, Martinů Quartet, Pavel Haas Quartet, Korngold Quartet, Graffe Quartet and other ensembles and soloists. He also premiered several works for solo piano and piano with orchestra by contemporary composers and recorded them for Czech Radio.
In the post-covid seasons of 2022-25, Jiraský performed recitals in Brno, Ostrava, Prague, Bratislava, Calgary, Edmonton, Fukuyama and Tokyo, as well as piano concertos with Czech and German orchestras conducted by J. Klecker, F. Merz, R. Kružík and M. Ivanovič. In November 2024, he received the Leoš Janáček Foundation Medal for his extraordinary contribution to the interpretation of Janáček's work. He is a full professor at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, head of the piano department.