Violinist Markéta Janoušková is a graduate of the prestigious Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She also studied at the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Her solo album "l'Astre Bleu" was released in 2023. She was nominated for the prestigious Ursula and Dwight Mamlok Award 2022 in the solo category for artists under 35 who are systematically engaged in performing contemporary music. Markéta Janoušková plays a unique H. Lockey Hill violin (18th century), kindly loaned from a private collection.
Pianist Jitka Čechová studied piano at the Prague Conservatory with Jan Novotný and went on to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Peter Toperczer. She completed postgraduate studies with Eugen Indjice in Paris and Vitali Berzon in Freiburg, master classes with R. Kehrer in Weimar, E. Indjice
and L. Berman in Piešt'any. She has been awarded prize-winner in a number of international competitions. As a soloist she is highly regarded by critics in many European countries and also in South Africa, America, Thailand, China and Japan. For Jitka Čechová, chamber music is one of the indispensable components of her musical identity. Since 1999 she has been a member of the world-famous Smetana Trio.
The concert is intended for students, employees of the CTU and graduates of the CTU’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Everyone is welcome to bring one guest. As long as we do not face an overflow of listeners, admission to the Meeting is free and without prior registration. Dress-code is casual.
František Vejražka and Václav Hlaváč, two professors at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, initiated the launch of the tradition of Meeting with Music. "Professor Václav Hlaváč came to me with this idea. His idea was to prepare a concert for our employees who were coming from work, not dressed festively and would welcome a calm wind-down moment with nice music," recalls Prof. Vejražka in an interview.
The aim is to provide students and staff with a straightforward, inexpensive and informal opportunity to encounter music on a regular basis. Verbal interaction between performers, presenter and audience is also expected during the evening. The programme is generally chosen to be of interest to new music listeners.
