TWO ARTISTS, TWO VIEWS – Thouand, Veverka

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.