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YOUNG PRAGUE - THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
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The civil association The civil association YOUNG PRAGUE - THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL has made it its aim to help promising young artists who are starting their career in classical music - such as instrumentalists, singers, chamber groups, conductors as well as composers. By organizing concerts at the international level we want to make the beginning of their artistic career easier for them and enable them to make friends with young musicians from all over the world.
That is why the idea of founding an international music festival was born. In 1990 the initiators, the representatives of The International Music Society in Munich (IMGM - Internationale Musikgesellschaft Munchen) decided to situate the festival in Czechoslovakia and gave it the name Young Prague. In 1992, from late August to early September the first festival took place with participation of artists from 8 nationalities, ranging from Peru to Japan. In the same year a Japanese committee of the Young Prague Festival was founded in Tokyo and its task is to choose the most interesting young musicians from Asia.
Thanks to the constant sponsorshiop of the companies Panasonic, Kirin Beer, Toyota, Shiseido, Yamasha, System Yamato and some others from the Czech Republic and Japan, whose support we really appreciate, it has already been possible to hold the festival ten times. Over 320 young musicians from most European countries, the USA, Peru, India, Mexico, China, Korea and Japan performed in 90 concerts. Besides them, many orchestras and choirs took part in the festival (The Tokyo choir of the Young Prague Festival from Kunitachi Tokyo university participates every year). Together more than 1160 musicians introduced themselves to the audience. In 2000 the festival took place within the framework of the cultural project "Prague - the European City of Culture 2000" and in 2001 the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel VIZE 97 took over patronage of the festival.
We would like to mention these remarkable artists who are or were connected with the festival history:
Mr. Haruhito Kobayashi (Munich), Prof. Yoshifumi Nakajima (Tokyo) and past president of the festival, the late Prof. Lubomír Kostecký (member of the legendary Smetana Quartet) .
We are very honoured to have world renowned violinist Josef Suk as current festival president.
Festival Committe Members are: Tomáš Cistecký (member of the National Theatre Orchestra), Norbert Heller (pianist), Petr Hernych (member of the FOK Orchestra)
That is why the idea of founding an international music festival was born. In 1990 the initiators, the representatives of The International Music Society in Munich (IMGM - Internationale Musikgesellschaft Munchen) decided to situate the festival in Czechoslovakia and gave it the name Young Prague. In 1992, from late August to early September the first festival took place with participation of artists from 8 nationalities, ranging from Peru to Japan. In the same year a Japanese committee of the Young Prague Festival was founded in Tokyo and its task is to choose the most interesting young musicians from Asia.
Thanks to the constant sponsorshiop of the companies Panasonic, Kirin Beer, Toyota, Shiseido, Yamasha, System Yamato and some others from the Czech Republic and Japan, whose support we really appreciate, it has already been possible to hold the festival ten times. Over 320 young musicians from most European countries, the USA, Peru, India, Mexico, China, Korea and Japan performed in 90 concerts. Besides them, many orchestras and choirs took part in the festival (The Tokyo choir of the Young Prague Festival from Kunitachi Tokyo university participates every year). Together more than 1160 musicians introduced themselves to the audience. In 2000 the festival took place within the framework of the cultural project "Prague - the European City of Culture 2000" and in 2001 the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel VIZE 97 took over patronage of the festival.
We would like to mention these remarkable artists who are or were connected with the festival history:
Mr. Haruhito Kobayashi (Munich), Prof. Yoshifumi Nakajima (Tokyo) and past president of the festival, the late Prof. Lubomír Kostecký (member of the legendary Smetana Quartet) .
We are very honoured to have world renowned violinist Josef Suk as current festival president.
Festival Committe Members are: Tomáš Cistecký (member of the National Theatre Orchestra), Norbert Heller (pianist), Petr Hernych (member of the FOK Orchestra)
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