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Martin Kasík

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About Martin

 

Martin ranks among the foremost Czech pianists of the present time

He is…

The winner of 1998 Prague Spring Competition, the 1999 Young Concert Artists Competition, the 2000 Davidoff Prix

Artistic director of the Chopin Festival in Marienbad

Professor at the Academy of Music in Prague

Orchestras and concert halls

He has…

played with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra...

appeared in concert halls such as Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Wigmore Hall,  Tonhalle Zurich, Carnegie Hall´s Weill Recital Hall, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Alte Oper Frankfurt,  the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Tokyo´s Suntory Hall or Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore…

Conductors

 

He has…

performed under the baton of Jakub Hrůša, Pinchas Zukerman, Serge Baudo, Marin Alsop, Yakov Kreizberg, Ingo Meztmacher, Ken – Ichiro Kobayashi, Petr Altrichter, Tomáš Netopil…

Wrote about Martin

 

The New York Times

“Mr. Kasik plays with a resourceful technique, fluidity, a keen sense of colour and intelligence.”

The Republican

“… elegant phrasing, touch and tone recalled those of the finest keyboard virtuosos like Artur Rubinstein and Kasik’s own countryman, the late Rudolf Firkusny, who was himself a champion of Dvorak’s Piano Concerto.”