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A golden treasure is hidden in the wreck of a pirate ship on the very bottom of the ocean. Dive with us into the musical depths, meet singing sea sirens and mysterious underwater monsters. And if you forget your snorkel, you can borrow a trombone from the musicians – it actually works in exactly the same way and has the longest air hose which is actually retractable!

200 Meters under the Sea

Dvořák Hall Rudolfinum

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Czech Chamber Music Society • Alinde Quintet

Rudolfinum

"I am extremely happy, it went very quickly," wrote Antonín Dvořák under the heading of his 12th String Quartet, the sketch of which he completed in just a few days. The natural idyll of rural Spillville inspired him so deeply during his stay in the USA that the composition came easily. Along with his Ninth Symphony, "From the New World," which was also written in America, this string quartet is one of his most famous works. Dvořák's soulful chamber music provides a positive moment of calm in the Alinde Quintet's otherwise melancholic program: in arrangements for wind quintet, the up-and-coming Czech ensemble explores the emotional complexity of Josef Suk's elegiac, pleading meditation, Pēteris Vask's composition "For a Deceased Friend," and Shostakovich's plaintive Eighth String Quartet.

Alinde Quintet

Schloss Favorite, Ludwigsburg

David Koller will perform his legendary songs during a special set with the Prague Philharmonia!

Thanks to its long-term partnership with Komerční banka, the Prague Philharmonia returns to Rock for People regularly. After collaborating with Vypsana fiXa, Clarinet Factory and its own Prague Philharmonia Cover Band, this year the orchestra has prepared an ambitious project.

David Koller has put together a special programme consisting of the greatest hits from his solo career and the band Lucie, which will be performed in original symphonic arrangements.

Rock for People: David Koller & Prague Philharmonia

Park 360

The contrabassoon completes our chamber series' trilogy of lowest-pitched instruments. Come enjoy the powerful tones of the longest wooden instrument in Memoria by Finnish composer and conductor Salonen.

Verdi. Salonen. Jersild

The Professed House, Prague

The Alinde Quintet, a prizewinning ensemble at the Carl Nielsen Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen in 2023 and a rising star ensemble of Czech chamber music will bring an all-Czech programme to the Festival. Their concert will be part of the Year of Czech Music supported by the Czech Centre London.

Corn Exchange

National Gallery Prague

The penultimate concert of the chamber series spotlights bassoons and the friendship shared among players of this woodwind instrument. This concert also reflects our ongoing tribute to the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven, alongside three Czech composers. The programme will also feature a modern-day premiere of the Duo for Oboe and Bassoon by Josef Fiala, a composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Conductor, Bassoonist

Petr Sedlák

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 1, 2027

Alinde Quintet · Prague Symphony Orchestra

May 10, 2027

Vaňhal. Fiala. Beethoven · Prague Philharmonia

Past events

Apr 19, 2026

200 Meters under the Sea · Prague Philharmonia

Dec 1, 2025

Czech Chamber Music Society • Alinde Quintet · Czech Philharmonic

Future and recently performed repertoire

Bassoon in String Quartet No. 8 by Shostakovich

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Bassoon in Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon by Beethoven

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in String Quartet No. 12 by Dvorak

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Bassoon in Wind Quintet in C major by Klughardt

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in The Tomb of Couperin by Ravel

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Bassoon in Wind Quintet by Reicha

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Bassoon in Wind Quintet No. 2 by Vasks

Czech Philharmonic

Conductor in 200 Meters under the Sea by Boudalová

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Overture to The Force of Destiny by Verdi

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Wind Quintet "Memoria" by Salonen

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Serenade "At spille i skoven" (Playing in the Woods) by Jersild

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Five Duets for two bassoons by Vaňhal

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Páslo dievča pávy by Brunner

Prague Philharmonia

Bassoon in Duetto in B-flat major by Fiala

Prague Philharmonia

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