Zuzana Rzounková
Highly appreciated solo French horn player of the reputable Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Zuzana Rzounková, belongs to the top class orchestral musicians. Therefore she is regularly invited to cooperate with many orchestras at home and abroad. Zuzana is often performing with the Luxembourg Orchester European Soloists, regularly performing on stages of famous festivals and her performances are highly valuated by the audience and the critics as well. During her career she was performing in all Europe, China, Japan, South Korea and the USA and so on.
With the same intensity Zuzana is focused on solo and chamber playing. Her active music work includes also teaching, as a pedagogue at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno, she is highly involved in the education of the new generation of Czech French horn players. Many of her graduates have been playing in the best Czech orchestras. Very often she is asked to participate in master-classes or to be a jury member of competitions. She is an artistic leader of Summer Horn Courses in Broumov, Czech republic. Zuzana Rzounková studied at the Conservatory of Košice and after that at Janáček Academy of Music in Brno with Prof. Jindřich Petráš. During her studies she won many prizes, e.g. the first prize of the International French horn Competition in London (2004) and in the Moravian Autumn Competition the year after. In 2010 she got the PhD degree at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno.
Dariusz Mikulski (Poland)
Orchestra and Opera Conductor, Music Director and Horn-Soloist Dariusz Mikulski studied at the Academy of Music in Łódz, in1994 he continued his studies in Germany with Prof. Radovan Vlatkovic at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart and at the ‚Mozarteum‘ in Salzburg. Additionally, he took conducting courses with Prof. Tomas Ungar and graduated successfully from all institutions. During his university studies he won important competitions on a national basis and also some trophies from international competitions (the Prague Spring, Peter-Damm-Hornwettbewerb, the International Bugler competition in Toulon or the International Intrumental competition Marktneunkirchen). As a solo hornplayer he works regularly with European orchestras, as a conductor he appears often in Poland, Germany and Thailand. Since 2000, Dariusz Mikulski is known as the founder and leader of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Great Philharmonics Poland of young, inexperienced musicians from all over the world. He is a tutor at the Łódz Academy of Music and is the lecturer of many international courses of conservatories in Danzig, Lodz, Wroclaw, and Poznan, moreover, he leads a number of different summer courses in Duszniki Zdroj, Olszyn and Warsaw. He is leading concert- and artist agency CONCORNO Cultural Management.
Jan Vobořil
Jan Vobořil currently holds the position of Principal /Solo Horn in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Solistes Europeéns Luxembourg. He is also the leader of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Horn Section. Jan held the position of Principal /Solo Horn in the PKF-Prague Philharmonia and Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist, Jan has performed both at home and abroad (Europe, Japan, USA) under the batton of the best conductors. Jan as a soloist has also recorded for Czech Radio and Television, German ARD Television, Radio Luxembourg and numerous international record labels including Supraphon, Octavia Records (Japan) and the British Classicprint label. Jan is a member of the Prague Wind Quintet, Czech Philharmonic Horn Quartet /Octet and the Czech Horn Quartet (over twenty solo performances of Schumann Konzertstück for Four Horns in Europe).
Since 2011 Jan has become a guest performer as Principal Horn with the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2016 is regulary invited for a special projects with Riccardo Muti to Korea with Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra. In the same year 2016 he was a Principal horn with Seiji Ozawa in Saito Kinen Orchestra at the Seiji Ozawa Festival in Japan. Jan is also from 2014 a regular guest at Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival in Finnland. Jan Vobořil is a graduate of the Brno Conservatoire and the Academy of Performing Arts Prague. He is a First Prize winner of many competitions.
