The Josef Micka Violin Competition 2025

Hudební agentura Tanja Classic Musical Agency
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Via musica ad beatum z.s. and Tanja Classic s.r.o. in cooperation with the Prague Secondary School of Music presents  the 13th Annual International Violin Competition “The Josef Micka Competition” under the auspices of Václav Hudeček.

Application form

Schedule of the competition

Acoustic rehearsals

Results of the 1st category

Results of the 2nd category

Results of the 3rd category

Results of the 4th category

Results of the 5th category

List of the winners of the main prizes

Competition Rules ( for download )

The competition will take place at the Prague Secondary School of Music, (Address: Komenského náměstí 400/9, Praha 3), from 11th to 13th April, 2025
  • The competition is open to violinists attending junior music schools, conservatoires, secondary music schools, private schools or who are receiving private tuition, and who will perform the prescribed repertoire and comply with the age limit of 16 years.
  • Competitors will play from memory and comply with the prescribed time limits; works by 20th and 21st century authors in Category IV. and V. may be performed from the score.
  • Non-compliance with the rules may result in disqualification.
  • The competition is in one stage only. The chosen programme is binding, but in exceptional circumstances the jury may give permission for a change to a chosen piece.
  • The jury reserves the right not to award certain prizes, also to award a shared prize, as well as to award special prizes.
  • Any competitor has the right to enter a higher age category.

  • The overall winner is not allowed to participate in the competition anymore.

  • The organizer has the right to request a reference recording of the competitor. If the recording does not meet the technical and artistic standards of the competition, the organizer may refuse to accept the candidate for the competition.

Age categories and time limits for performance

Category I – up to 8 years of age. For competitors born in 2017 and younger.
Performance time limit 3 - 7 minutes.
Recommended composition ( non obligatory! ): Josef Micka: Elementary studies Nos. 2. or 3. | download / Award for the best interpretation

Category II – up to 10 years of age. For competitors born in 2015 and younger.
Performance time limit 4 - 10 minutes.
Recommended composition ( non obligatory! ): Josef Micka: Elementary studies Nos. 7. or 35. | download/ Award for the best interpretation

Category III – up to 12 years of age. For competitors born in 2013 and younger.
Performance time limit 7 - 12 minutes.
Recommended composition ( non obligatory! ): Josef Micka: Changing position studies Nos. 36. or 48. or 50 | download// Award for the best interpretation

Category IV – up to 14 years of age. For competitors born in 2011 and younger.
Performance time limit 10 - 17 minutes. Works of at least two contrasting stylistic periods must be performed. One of the pieces must be composed by a Czech composer. (From baroque to 21st century)

Category V – up to 16 years of age. For competitors born in 2009 and younger. Performance time limit 14 - 20 minutes. Works of at least two contrasting stylistic periods must be performed. One must be by a Czech composer from a 20th or 21st century, composed after 1914.

Jury Members

  • Václav Hudeček – Chairman of the Jury, violin virtuoso
    portretVáclav Hudeček is one of the outstanding Czech violinists of our time. In 1959 and between 1964-1968 he studied, first privately then as a student at the Prague Conservatoire, with Josef Micka. In the autumn of 1967, at the age of 15, he started his international career by appearing as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. He is the only Czech pupil of the legendary David Oistrakh. He graduated from the Prague Academy of Musical Arts in the class of Václav Snítil. Since his London debut, he has given concerts in all the great international concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall, Osaka Festival Hall, Sydney Opera) and appeared as soloist with many of the world's great orchestras (Berliner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, NHK Philharmonic Orchestra, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Moscow State Philharmony). Václav Hudeček commits a substantial part of his time to bringing up a new generation of violinists, either at the summer Václav Hudeček Academy, an annual master course held in the spa town of Luhacovice, or by introducing the best young players as guests of his Christmas concert tours and during the Prague Festival of Music. In 2007 he was awarded the state Order of Merit by president Vaclav Klaus, in recognition of his outstanding achievement in the arts.In 2012, on the occasion of his bithday, he received the Silver Medal of the City of Prague from its mayor, Dr.Bohuslav Svoboda.. Two years later he became the city's honorary citizen. In 2015 Václav Hudeček was awarded by the president of the Italian republic the Order of the Knight of the Star of Italy - „Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d‘Italia“.
    www.vaclav-hudecek.cz
  • Per Enoksson - Professor at Edsberg, Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm
    portret Per Enoksson began studying the violin with Alice Goldschmid and later with Professor Milan Vitek. After gaining a Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, in 1982, he then continued his studies in New York with Professor Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. Per Enoksson also participated in masterclasses with Henryk Szeryng and Isaac Stern. Distinguishing himself as prizewinner in the Carl Nielsen and the Jean Sibelius competitions. Per Enoksson's career includes solo performances with all the leading Scandinavian orchestras, including the Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Swedish Radio, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Malmö S.O., Helsinki and Danish Radio Orchestras. Per Enoksson has recorded several discs, which include the complete Brahms sonatas, Busoni and Sjögren sonatas and Messiaens Quartet for the end of time. Teaching posts have included positions at the College of Music, Oslo and at the Academy of Music, Copenhagen. Per Enoksson is presently Professor at Edsberg, Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm. Per Enoksson was 1st concertmaster of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra 1987-2022 
  • Jiří Fišer – Prague Conservatoire, Prague Grammar and Music School
    portretJiří Fišer graduated from the Plzeň Conservatoire in the class of Antonín Moravec. In 1971 he attended a master course given by Nathan Milstein. Between 1978 and 1985 he held the post of deputy leader of the Suk Chamber Orchestra. He then became first violinist of the Doležal Quartet. Since 1996 Jiří Fišer has taught both at the Prague Music School and the Prague Conservatoire. The outstanding artistic achievements and competition successes of his pupils - Jan Mráček, Petra Vilánková, Petr Matěják, to name but a few - make him one of the most important violin teachers of our time.
  • Pavel Kudelásek – Prague Conservatoire, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
    portretPavel Kudelásek graduated from the Prague Conservatoire in the class of Jaroslav Foltýn and from the Prague Academy in that of Antonín Moravec. He completed his studies with Kato Havas. He was instrumental in setting up the violin department of the České Budějovice Conservatoire. Since 1993 he has been professor of violin at the Prague Conservatoire and has also taught at the Prague Music School. He has written a number of musicological works (eg. “On the Performance of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas”). He is a frequent member of the jury in both domestic and international competitions and regularly gives violin masterclasses. Apart from his solo career, Pavel Kudelásek is a sought-after chamber player, having held posts in a number of outstanding ensembles (Czech Chamber Orchestra, Dvořák Quartet, Pro Arte Antiqua) and having collaborated with the Czech Nonet. In 2006 he was given the Rudolf II Award by the Masaryk Academy of Arts for promoting Czech music.
    www.triartmanagement.cz
  • Jiří Panocha – Leader of the Panocha Quartet, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
    portretJiří Panocha's violin career began at an early age. In 1972 he was a prize-winner at the Karajan Competition in Berlin and was appointed leader of the International Student Orchestra under Karajan's baton. He has given concerts in most countries of Europe, as well as in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan and elsewhere. In 1968, as a student at the Prague Conservatoire, he founded the Panocha Quartet under the guidance of Josef Micka. This young ensemble then moved on to the Prague Academy of Musical Arts. Under Panocha's leadership, the quartet has since travelled the world and made innumerable recordings for both Czech and international record companies. As professor of violin at the Prague Academy, Jiří Panocha is committed to bringing up a new generation of young violinists. The uninterrupted existence of the Panocha Quartet, who have played in an unchanged line-up since 1971, is testament to his skills in bringing together and leading a group of musicians.
    Panochovo-kvarteto
  • Milan Puklický – Music director of the Czech radio
    portretMilan Puklický was born on 8 April 1952 in Prague. His first violin teacher was Ferdinand Gotwald, a pupil of Otakar Ševčík. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire, then graduated from the Academy of Music in the class of Josef Vlach. Before 1985 he performed as a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles both in Europe and America. He broadened his musical education through private studies of composition and conducting. Since 1985 he has worked as a music director for the then Czechoslovak, now Czech Radio; since 1995 he has followed that career exclusively. In that capacity he has worked for a number of Czech and foreign record companies as well as many ensembles and soloists. He has collaborated on many recordings, some of which were awarded important international prizes – in recent years the complete orchestral works of Leoš Janáček and the 3 Fragments from Martinů´s opera Julietta, both with Sir Charles Mackerras, and a recording of the Smetana piano trio, a BBC Recording of the Year.
  • Pavel Zejfart – Member of the Panocha Quartet, ZUŠ Kladno
    portretPavel Zejfart was initially torn between singing, acting and playing the piano. As a child he appeared as singer and actor in Hans Krása's opera Brundibár, in a television production of Dickens' Oliver Twist and in Vaclav Krška's film adaptation of Turgenev's Torrents of Spring. He began playing the violin only at the age of eleven, and following private tuition with Josef Micka, later became his pupil at the Prague Conservatoire. In 1968 he joined, as 2nd violinist, the newly-founded Panocha Quartet. Pavel Zejfart studied chamber music with Raphael Hillyer in Weimar and concluded his studies at the Prague Academy in the class of Nora Grumlíková. As member of the now renowned quartet he has won numerous awards – the Prague Spring Competition (1975), the Medaille d'Or (Bordeaux 1976), the Sterne der Woche (Munich 1982),a Golden Disc (Supraphon 1982), the Grand Prix d'Academie Charles Cros (Paris 1983) and the prestigious MIDEM Classical Award (Cannes 1995). At various times he has taught at the Lake District Summer School of Music in England, at Yale University in Norfolk, Virginia and at the Kusatsu Academy in Japan. Panochovo-kvarteto

Prizes

  • Three main prizes can be awarded in each category
  • Honorary prizes will also be awarded
  • Each competitor will receive a Certificate of Participation

The following main prizes will be awarded:

 

 

Application submission:

A valid application form must be filled in online and it has to contain the exact titles and durations of all the works, which will be performed. It must be submitted by 1.3.2025

  • A registration fee of 1000 CZK must also be paid by 1.3.2025.
  • The registration fee is non-refundable.
  • In the case of over-subscription, the number of competitors may be limited, due to time concerns. In this case, those who submitted their applications the earliest will be given precedence.
  • Foreign competitors must pay the registration fee via PayPal - please mark it, when filling in the application form.
We look forward to meeting you in Prague in April 2025!
For any additional information, please contact Jana Lébrová on 00420 776 159 858 or send an e-mail to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Suggested list of OPTIONAL / NON COMPULSORY compositions:

  • Sylvie Bodorová: Dža More - for solo violin
  • Petr Eben:
    • Saul u věštkyně v En-Doru (Saul at the oracle of En-Dor) – Old Testament fresco for violin and piano
    • Sonatina semplice
  • Luboš Fišer:
    • Ruce (Hands) - Sonata for violin and piano
    • Amoroso for violin and piano (categories II and III only)
  • Ilja Hurník:
    • Ciacona for violin and piano
    • Grave for violin and piano (categories II and III only)
    • Partita for violin and piano (optional)
    • Suite for violin and piano (optional)
  • Lukáš Hurník: Tři věty ( Three Sentences )
  • Lukáš Hurník: XS Variations for Violin and Piano
  • Viktor Kalabis: Aleluja (Psalm 150), op.74 – Old Testament fresco for violin and piano
  • Oldřich F. Korte:
    • Philosophical Dialogues
    • Elíhu contra Job - Old Testament fresco for violin and piano
  • Jan Kučera:"Flowing are the Waters" Seven easy variations on a folk song in the style of famous composers
  • Pavel Kudelásek: "Minirondo" for violin and piano - download
  • Jiří Teml: THE THEATRE Three Pictures for Violin and Piano;  to order: Please e-mail to the official publisher: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Otmar Mácha: Elegy for violin and piano
  • Vít Micka: Concertino for violin and piano, Dreaming Nymph
  • Luboš Sluka:
    • Consonanza con Mozart for violin and piano
    • Due pezzi – 2 elegiac pieces for violin and piano
  • Lukáš Sommer: Déja vu – in memoriam Maurice Ravel for violin and piano

 

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