The winner of the string quartet competition will receive a prize from the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation in memory of Viktor and Zuzana. Preliminary round results can be found at soutez.festival.cz
In his article, Bach Was a Musician’s Companion to Tragedy, The New York Times’ Michael Beckerman reviews the memoir retelling Zuzana Růžičková’s life story – “Zuzana: Music Is Life”. Read the complete article here.
Washingtonmusicaviva produced the Viktor Kalabis Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 29 (1968). Performed by Emma Hays Johnson, cello, and Carl Banner, piano, live at BannerArts, March 20, 2021
BBC discusses ‘One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival’, a new book about Holocaust survivor and the world’s greatest harpsichordist, Zuzana Ruzickova. Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and author Wendy Holden pay tribute to her....
An award-winning documentary produced and directed by Harriet and Peter Getzels, Executive Producers, Emily Vogl, Frank Vogl and William R. Rhodes in loving memory of Louise Tilzer Rhodes. The sponsor of the film is The...
NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON English, Czech, German, Polish, Dutch, Brazilian editions now published – BUY FROM BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Růžičková, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist by Zuzana Růžičková and Wendy Holden....
SUPRAPHON SU4210-2 [65:51] Both Viktor Kalabis’ Cello and Clarinet sonatas were written in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Both are marked by it and display a brooding, sometimes almost obsessive quality wholly understandable...
Spain. June 7, 2018 –— recital at the Centro Cultural Las Clarisas de Elche, Valencia, Spain. Svetlana Tovstukha, cello and Eduard V. Agullo guitar, performed a program that included Viktor Kalabis’s Reminiszenzen Op. 46 for...
PREMIERE IN JAPAN Viktor Kalabis – Clarinet Sonata Performed by Nozomi Ueda – In Osaka, Japan – May 18, 2017 at the Noix Accordées Music andArt Salon.
Sunday Feature March 15, 2015: From the “skeletons copulating on a tin roof” jibes of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham to its unfavourable characterisation as the ideal instrument of the Addams Family, the harpsichord is an often misunderstood...