Biographie Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice & Marek Štilec


Marek Štilec
is one of the most notable members of the young generation of Czech conductors. He has had a number of international successes, such as conducting the New World Symphony under the patronage of Michael Tilson Thomas, and has enjoyed a large number of appreciative reviews of his recordings of Zdeněk Fibichʼs orchestral works for Naxos, including “Album of the Week” of WQXR in New York, “Recording of the Year” 2013 and 2014 of Music Web International, “Project of the Year” of the Czech music magazine Hudební rozhledy, and the “2014 Tip” of Harmonie magazine. He works regularly with a number of orchestras, including the principal Czech orchestras, the New World Symphony, the Orchestra of the Swan, the Wiener Concertverein Orchester, the Kammerphilharmonie Graz, the Berlin Camerata, Sinfonietta Cracovia and the Ulster Orchestra. He founded the Chamber Orchestra Quattro with which he has given dozens of concerts and has made a number of internationally successful recordings.

The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
founded in 1969, is one of the Czech Republicʼs leading orchestras. The repertoire of the orchestra includes a large number of compositions from the baroque era to contemporary music, including many cross-over and multigenre projects. The first principal conductor, Libor Pešek, quickly raised the orchestra to a high standard and the subsequent principal conductors have included Libor Hlavácě k, Petr Altrichter, Bohumil Kulínský, Petr Škvor, Róbert Stankovský, Leoš Svárovský and Marko Ivanovic,́who have maintained the orchestraʼs reputation. The present conductor is Peter Feranec. The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra often performs at the Czech Republicʼs most important festivals, including the Prague Spring International Festival, the Smetana Litomyšl and the International Český Krumlov Festival, and at the many important venues in Europe, such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Salzburg Festspielhaus, Hercules Hall and Gasteig, Munich, the Vienna Musikverein, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg and many others. Outside Europe the orchestra has played in Japan and has toured extensively around America. The orchestra has collaborated with many leading world-renowned conductors, including Jirí̌ Beľohlávek, Marco Armiliato, Mariss Jansons, and with a number of prominent soloists and choirs. In addition to its work in the concert-hall the orchestra regularly engages in operatic and theatre projects and has dozens of successful recordings to its credit on Naxos, ArcoDiva, Supraphon, Classico, Monitor-EMI, and Amabile.



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