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Clarinettist Veronika Brádlová (*1988) is a versatile chamber and orchestral musician. She has played in the orchestra of the North Bohemian Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Ústí nad Labem, in the Jugendorchester Europera and, since 2015, in the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, with which she has toured several times with the celebrated composer and conductor Ennio Morricone. She also regularly performs and records with the Philharmonie Wind Orchestra for the EMR – MARCOPHON label. She co-founded the all-female clarinet quartet Cantarina Clarinete, in which she played from 2011 to 2013. She is also invited to sit on competition juries and teaches at the Karel Halíř Music School in Vrchlabí and at the music schools in Lomnice nad Popelkou and Semily, where besides clarinet she leads chamber ensembles as well as symphony and wind orchestras. Her teaching method is built on special breathing and relaxation exercises.

Veronika Brádlová graduated from the Teplice Conservatory in the class of Prof. Vladimír Zíka, completed her bachelor’s degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Professors Vlastimil Mareš, Jiří Hlaváč and Štěpán Koutník, and her master’s degree at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno with Prof. Milan Polák and Prof. Vítězslav Spilka. In 2013–2014 she continued her studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland) in the class of Prof. Milan Řeřicha. She has taken part in numerous masterclasses, e.g. with Sylvie Hue, Milan Řeřicha, Jorge Montilla, Shirley Brill, Karel Dohnal and Milan Polák, and has won prizes at many international competitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. As a soloist she has performed with the North Czech Philharmonic, playing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major under its chief conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe.

Veronika Brádlová plays an instrument by RZ Clarinets.

Cellist Vojtěch Urban (*1988) is a sought-after chamber musician. As a member of TrioTones and the Doležal Quartet he performs regularly both at home and abroad (Europe, Asia). Together with the Doležal Quartet he co-organises the Qu@rtet+ chamber music festival in Prague and records for Supraphon. He is also invited to sit on competition juries and teaches at the Petřiny Music School in Prague, where besides cello he teaches chamber music and conducts a chamber orchestra. With fellow cellists Daniel Petrásek and Tomáš Strašil he runs “Cellování”, a workshop for young cellists.

Vojtěch Urban graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the classes of Prof. Daniel Veis and Prof. Mikael Ericsson, and completed his studies with a one-year stay at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig in the class of Prof. Peter Bruns. He has taken part in many masterclasses, e.g. with Robert Cohen, Karine Georgian, Christoph Richter and Ludwig Quandt. He is a laureate of several national and international competitions and has appeared as a soloist with the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the Czech Chamber Orchestra, the North Bohemian Theatre Orchestra and the Orchestr bez fraku.

Vojtěch Urban plays a master instrument made by Ferdinand Josef Homolka.

Pianist Michaela Hajíčková (*1987) devotes herself, besides chamber music, mainly to teaching, and thanks to her flexibility as a player she is also a sought-after accompanist. She is a co-founder of TrioTones, with which she regularly performs on Czech stages at various music festivals. In 2021 and 2022 she was the official accompanist of Ludmila Peterková’s international clarinet courses in Domažlice. She has taught at the music schools in Žatec and Prague 10 – Hostivař, and currently teaches at the Music School and the Conservatory in Teplice, where she also works as an accompanist. She coordinates a project of teaching placements at music schools for Teplice Conservatory students and since 2019 has been a member of the organising team of the Beethoven’s Teplice piano competition.

Michaela Hajíčková graduated from the Teplice Conservatory in the class of Prof. Věra Vlková and then from the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the classes of Miroslav Langer and František Malý. She broadened her horizons during a study stay at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig in the class of Prof. Alexander Meinel. She has attended many international piano masterclasses, e.g. with Avo Kouyoumdjian, Ivan Klánský, Vovka Ashkenazy, Pierre Jasmin, Frédéric Lagarde and Irina Nevodová. During her studies she became a laureate of several competitions (Pro Bohemia Ostrava, the Czech Conservatories Competition, the chamber music category of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, and others). As a soloist she has performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37 with the Teplice Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 with the North Czech Philharmonic under its chief conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe.