Orchestras

Musicians

Bohemian Collegium

Bohemian Collegium is a professional chamber ensemble comprising members of one of Prague's best musicians.

The ensemble was founded in eighties years of 20.century by the musicians from Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK). They bring all of us more than just standard professional performances that are given by the ensemble today. Above all critics praise the group's tone quality and expressive spontaneity, as well as a stylistic unity that is the result of years of working together and of a high degree of talent.

All the ensemble's members play a significant role in the musical life of Prague. The group is particularly interesting in terms of the versatility of the instrumental combinations it offers.

So,today you can hear more instrument, which makes for an exceptionally varied palette of possible colours and timbres: violins, violas, violoncello, double bass, harpsichord, trumpet, Baroque trumpet and percussion. This broad range of instruments facilitates performance in smaller groups (quintet) as well as in larger chamber combinations (Chamber orchestra). The ensemble also works occasionally with soloists Nada Chrobáková (soprano), Vladislav Kozderka (trompet).

The Bohemian collegium not only performs within Prague and the Czech Republic but also makes appearances abroad in Europe.

Complete ensamble. Playing Greatest Hits of Classical Music

Complete ensamble. Playing The Best of Gershwin

New Prague Collegium

New Prague Collegium is a wind and string collegium composed of leading members of Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague. New Prague Collegium is a follow-up to the highly successful Prague Collegium which performed abroad mainly in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy and other countries.

Complete ensemble. Playing Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Complete ensemble. Playing The Best Of Classics

Prague Chamber Players

The ensemble was founded in 1999. It´s members are conservatoire, Prague Academy of the Music Arts and many foreign masterclasses absolvents. Each member of this ensemble is also the National Theatre Orchestra in Prague player and they are involved in an opera and chamber music to. During it’s existence the ensemble realised more than 300 public performance in the Czech Republic and abroad too. Among classical music (Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Dvorak, Smetana, Janacek...) the ensembles’s repertoire includes also popular compositions for example L. Bernstein, F. Loewe, J. Joplin, Beatles, F. Sinatra, E. Presley, H. Mancini, etc.

Prague Chamber Players playing Famous Melodies of Classical Music

Ballet & Concert Prague Orchestra

A young operatic ensemble from Prague of approximatelly 40 musicians is presenting a “ballet–concert”, which is a combination of ballet, operatic song and orchestral music. We are currently offering an evening long (2 hours) performance of G. Bizet’s Carmen in a musical-dance arrangement. We also have short versions (60 mins) of M. Ravel’s Bollero, which is regularly performed in the Smetana Hall of Municipal House in Prague, and a 20-minute version, which is mostly shown in combination with arias from Gounod’s Faust and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. In the shortest version of Carmen we offer Habanera in a dance arrangement and Walpurgis Night from Faust. The programme is supplemented by overtures to Carmen and The Barber of Seville. To liven up the ballet–concert three operatic arias (Escamilio, Don Basilio and Mephisto) are also lined up. These are integral blocks. In our repertoire we also present works by W.A Mozart, A. Dvorak, B. Smetana, P. J. Tchaikovsky, J. Strauss and others.

The dance ensemble is comprised of soloists and members of ballet-ensembles from Prague and Pilsen (the National Theatre and the J. K. Tyl Theatre). Edita Adlerová, Milan Pelikán and Aleš Hendrych (a soloist from the National Theatre) will alternate the operatic arias. The small accompanying orchestra is composed of prominent professional performers: The Academia Wind Quintet supplemented with trumpet, trombone and percussion instrument, forms the best of wind harmony. The members of Czech Radio’s Symphony Orchestra play the strings. The theatre-goer also has the opportunity to hear alternate players from other orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Prague (F.O.K.), the Czech Radio Orchestra (SOČR), the Prague Chamber Orchestra (PKO), the National Theatre Orchestra and the State Opera Orchestra. František Pok, who manages this ensemble is also the author of the instrumentation for all of the compositions and the original cast. The focus of our project is original choreography and orchestral instrumentation. The original choreography is created by a former ballet dancer from the National Theatre – Daniela Poková. All performances are on the stage, so it really is a combination of all three components.

Ballet & Concert Prague Orchestra.
From our programme: Bolero from Carmen