Fabien Thouand has been principal oboist of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan since 2004. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano and an assistant professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon. He graduated from the CNSM in Paris in the class of Jacques Tys, Jean-Louis Capezzali and Frédéric Tardy. He is a laureate of the Prague Spring Competition, of the Petritoli International Oboe Competition Giuseppe Tomassini in Italy and of the International Oboe Competition in Toulon. As a soloist he has cooperated with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra or the Bamberger Symphoniker, with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Metha, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly.

Vilém Veverka is not only a successful soloist, but also a founding member of Ensemble Berlin-Prag, PhilHarmonia Octet and the Vilém Veverka TRIOplus. In addition to classical music, he also experiments in the field of genre fusions, especially with the Ultimate W Band (album Next Horizon, 2020). In addition to the HAMU in Prague, he studied at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Dominik Wollenweber, and as part of the Karajan Akademie he performed in the orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2003 he won the Sony Music Foundation Competition. He has given Czech and world premieres of many technically demanding concertante works by contemporary composers of the second half of the 20th century. Since 2024 he has been a teacher at the University of Ostrava.

A protégé of Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, French cellist Marc Coppey entered the international music scene at the age of 18 by winning the prestigious Bach Competition in Leipzig. He has worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Kirill Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine or Yan Pascal Tortelier. He regularly records for the international labels Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Accord/Universal and Naïve and his performances are part of the audio-visual archives of Arte.tv and Medici.tv. A sought-after chamber musician and acclaimed interpreter of contemporary music, he has premiered works by composers such as Elliott Carter, Annunzio Mantovani, Eric Tanguy and Erkki-Sven Tüür. From 1995 to 2000 he was a member of the Ysaÿe Quartet. He is a professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris and since 2020 he has been the artistic director of the Saline Royale Academy d’Arc-et-Senans. He regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In 2014, he was awarded the title Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

Winner of the 2006 Prague Spring Competition and finalist of the 2011 Pierre Fournier Award in London, Tomáš Jamník has made his debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Mozarteum in Salzburg and Japan’s Kitara Hall and Tokyo Metropolitan Hall. He studied cello at the HAMU in Prague under Mirko Škampa, Martin Škampa and Josef Chuchro, and continued his studies in Leipzig under Peter Bruns and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin under Jens Peter Maintz. He completed his studies as a scholarship holder at the renowned Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In addition, he has completed masterclasses with Heinrich Schiff, Gustav Rivinius, Truls Mørk, Pieter Wispelwey and Steven Isserlis. Tomáš Jamník also devotes himself to contemporary music: he has premiered works by Czech composers Miroslav Srnka, Michal Nejtek, Slavomír Hořínka, Marko Ivanović, Tomáš ‘Floex’ Dvořák and Ondřej Kukal. In 2018, he became the artistic director of the Ševčík Academy and is the author of the Vážný zájem (Serious Interest) initiative, which promotes the idea of house concerts.

Experience the adrenaline rush at a concert which will transform the professional life of one of our young finalists. Witness a thrilling contest between three of the finest cello players, who made it through to the final round of the Prague Spring competition.

We will be awarding the Audience Prize once again this year! Come and cast your vote to find your winner and you could win a prize as well! The results of the competition will be announced in the Dvořák Hall at approximately 10.45 pm.

Experience the adrenaline rush at a concert which will transform the professional life of one of our young finalists. Witness a thrilling contest between three of the finest cello players, who made it through to the final round of the Prague Spring competition.

We will be awarding the Audience Prize once again this year! Come and cast your vote to find your winner and you could win a prize as well! The results of the competition will be announced in the Dvořák Hall at approximately 10.45 pm.