Pavel Hůla
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| Background information | |
| Born | 23 January 1952 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | 7 December 2021 (aged 69) |
| Genres | Chamber music |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
Pavel Hůla (23 January 1952 – 7 December 2021) was a Czech violinist, music conductor and music teacher.[1]
Career
Hůla became a double winner of the Kocian Violin Competition in Ústí nad Orlicí (1963 and 1964) and a laureate of the Concertino Praga radio competition in the piano trio category in 1969.[2] He graduated from the School of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and completed his post-graduate studies in chamber music with Antonín Kohout and Vladimir Malinin's master classes in Weimar.[3]
He has devoted himself to solo and chamber music. For nearly three decades (1972–2000) he was a leading member of the Prague Chamber Soloists. From 1975 he was principal of the Kocian Quartet, with which he performed over 3000 concerts in 32 countries and received multiple awards (1997 Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros in Paris, several Diapason d'Or and many others). From 2001 he was also the artistic director of the Praga Camerata[4] chamber orchestra, which he founded.
In the spring of 2010, he replaced as the Pražák Quartet's primus its founding member Václav Remeš, who left the ensemble due to health reasons.[5] In 2015 he was himself replaced, for health reasons, by Jana Vonášková-Nováková.
He also devoted himself to conducting and since 2006 was a professor at the String Instruments Department of the School of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.[6] He played a rare old violin, an instrument made by Mathias Albani in 1696, which Jaroslav Kocian played in his youth.
Hůla died on 7 December 2021, at the age of 69.[7][8]
References
- ^ Stehlík, Luboš. "Pavel Hůla - život ve jménu Kocian" [Pavel Hůla - life in the name of Kocian]. www.casopisharmonie.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Veber, Petr. "Pavel Hůla: Na Kocianku přijíždějí opravdu jen ti nejlepší" [Pavel Hůla: Only the best really come to Kocianka]. www.klasikaplus.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Pavel Hůla". Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ Camerata, Praga. "ENGLISH". www.pragacamerata.com. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "San Jose: Together again: Pražák Quartet and pianist Gwendolyn Mok". The Mercury News. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "With Whom – Pellegrina with the Kinsky Trio & Friends". Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ OperaPlus, Redakce. "Zemřel houslista a hudební pedagog Pavel Hůla | OperaPlus" [Violinist and music pedagogue Pavel Hůla has died | OperaPlus] (in Czech). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ *KlasikaPlus.cz. "Pavel Hůla (1952-2021)". www.klasikaplus.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 13 December 2021.
External links
- Pavel Hůla at AllMusic
- Pavel Hůla discography at Discogs
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