Accordion Master Class by Ladislav Horák
16 January 2015
Accordion professor and deputy director of the Prague Conservatoire is holding a master class for students of the Academy.
Time and place:
29-30 January 2015
Main Building, Room X
Active participants have already been selected for the master class. Passive participants are welcome to attend the master class. No application is necessary.
Ladislav Horák Ladislav Horák is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and the West Bohemia University in Plzeň (Prof. Jaroslav Vlach). While still a student, he won the national competition in Hořovice (1990) and garnered successes at international competitions in Andorra, Italy and Spain (1987–1990). He performs as a soloist, chamber player and accompanied by orchestras (the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, North Bohemia Philharmonic Teplice, Prague Philharmonia, Suk Chamber Orchestra, Westmont Philharmonia Accordion Orchestra, Fisorchestra Marchigiana) and has regularly appeared at prestigious festivals in North America, Asia and throughout Europe. He is a champion of and has given premieres of pieces by contemporary Czech and foreign composers, which he has recorded for Czech and international radio stations (Czech Radio, Klassikradio, Classical WQED). His label Edition Rondo Prague has released a dozen CDs. One of the most renowned promoters of Italy’s Borsini. He represents the Czech accordion school in international organizations (La Confederation Mondialede l’Accordeon, European Accordion Federation) and as a chairman of juries of international competitions (Castelfidardo, Innsbruck, Pula). He is the only accordionist from Central Europe invited to sit on the juries of the prestigious German competitions Deutscher-Akkordeon-Musikpreis and Deutsche-Orchesterwettbewerb. In Prague he is artistic director of the European Accordion Orchestras Festival and Accordion Days. Since the 1990s, he has taught at the Prague Conservatory, since 2005 he has been its director. For more than 15 years, he headed the accordion department at the largest South Bavaria private school, in Regen. He has been invited to lead accordion master classes in Andorra, Castelfidardo (Italy), at the Conservatorio Funchal (Madeira), the Music Academies in Lodz (Poland) and Budapest, the Royal Academies in Aarhus (Denmark) and Stockholm, and the Steinhardt University in New York.