About the orchestra

The Chamber Orchestra of the Dvorak Region was founded in 1976 in Kralupy nad Vltavou in Central Bohemia by chamber music lovers from Kralupy and the nearby towns of Slany, Veltrusy, Roztoky and Prague. From the beginning it has been led by Vaclav Mazacek, a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
The orchestra has already given about five hundred concerts, playing Baroque masters, the music of Classicism and Romanticism as well as compositions of contemporary authors. About seventy professional soloists, mostly members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, have taken part in the orchestra's performances.



Under the guidance of Vaclav Mazacek, the amateur musicians have already managed to achieve an excellent standard and are considered one of the best non-professional Czech orchestras.
They won the 1993 competition of non-professional orchestras in Prague, gaining the right to compete at the European Festival of Chamber Orchestras to be held in 1994 in Brno.
In 1993-1995 the orchestra made several concerts tours through Cote-Vermeille (South France), Holland, Slovakia and to Hungary.
The Chamber Orchestra of the Dvorak Region made several records in the Czech Radio studio in Prague and several alive concerts were recorded and broadcasted, too. The Czech TV studio in Prague recorded also a programme of the orchestra. A compact disc recorded by the orchestra in 1994 was very successful and met a positive reviews response.
The orchestra is sponsored by the town of Kralupy nad Vltavou (Central Bohemia).

Conductor

Vaclav Mazacek -
member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra






Although whole this website was created only in Czech and some Czech letters could be sometimes decoded incorrectly (charset Windows-1250 used), several pages are, of course, partially or even entirely understandable for most visitors:
repertoire,
concerts,
photogallery...




Contact

Please feel free to contact us with your questions on our e-mail address:

mazacekv@seznam.cz