Kristian Mráček (housle) + Veronika Jaklová (klavír)

Concert program:

• Leoš Janáček: Sonata for violin and piano
• Antonín Dvořák: Romance for violin and piano in F minor, Op. 11
• Karol Szymanowski: Myths, op. 30

Violinist Kristian Mráček and pianist Veronika Jaklová – a duo awarded 1st prize at the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition and 3rd prize at Concertino Praga – will present themselves in a chamber recital in Salón Celetná. The evening's program includes three gems for violin and piano: the dramatic Sonata for violin and piano by Leoš Janáček, the lyrical Romance by Antonín Dvořák and the colorfully impressionistic and mystical Myths by Karol Szymanowski.

About the artists:

Kristian Mráček studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jiří Fišer, later continued his studies with Jiří Vodička, and at the same time studied with Bohuslav Matoušek at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. From September 2025, he is a solo performance student of the master's program at the Hochschule für Musik Luzern in the class of prof. Igor Karsk. He is a laureate of a number of national and international competitions, among which are the Josef Micka Violin Competition, Talents for Europe, Kocian's Violin Competition and Ohrid Pearls. He also won the 2nd prize at the Václav Hudeček Summer Academy. He achieved significant success with cellist David Pěruška at the Concertino Praga competition, where they won the 1st prize in chamber music, the Audience Award, the EMCY award and recorded a CD for Czech Radio. With the pianist Veronika Jaklova, he won the 1st prize at the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition (including the prize for the best interpretation) and subsequently the 3rd prize at the Concertino Praga. As a member of a piano trio, he also won the Grand Prix at the Ohrid Pearls competition in 2022. As a soloist, he performed with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, the Czechoslovak Chamber Orchestra Prague and the String Orchestra of the Prague Conservatory and performed at festivals such as Dvořák Prague and Za poklady Broumovska. Kristian also took part in master classes under Stefan Milenković, Vadim Repin, Dalibor Karvay and others. She is a scholarship recipient of the Stadler-Trier Music Foundation.

Veronika Jaklová studied at the Prague Conservatory under Milan Langer and Ivo Kahánek. He is currently studying at the Prague Academy of Arts in the class of Jan Bartoš. She is a laureate of many international competitions (Young Piano of the Prague Conservatory, International Smetov Piano Competition in Pilsen, Beethovenovy Teplice, Piano Competition for the Gustav Mahler Prize, WPTA International Competition in Finland, Ohrid Pearls in North Macedonia, absolute victory in the Orbetello Junior Piano Competition in Italy, third prize at the Santa Cecília International Competition in Portugal). In 2020, she won the Yamaha Music Foundation scholarship competition, and a year later she became the recipient of the prestigious EMCY award. In the Jaklová-Mráček duo, together with the violinist Kristian Mráček, she won the 3rd prize at the Concertino Praga 2023 radio competition. She performed, for example, at the Dvořák Prague, Prague Spring, Orbetello Piano Festival or Contatti Sonori festivals in Turin, Italy, and at concerts in Germany, Poland and Luxembourg. As a soloist, she performed, for example, with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra or the Prague Student Symphony Orchestra. She participated in master classes led by Paul Lewis and Lukáš Vondráček as part of the Dvořák Prague Festival, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Saleem Ashkar, Einar Steen-Noklberg and others.