Chamber Music
František SOUČEK - Coordinator, Prague, Czech Republic, is a graduate of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, where he studied with Professor Ivan Straus. He
graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 2000 in the class of prof.
Jaroslav Foltyn and has won numerous international competitions such as
Beethoven (1998), Spohr (2001), Tribune of Young Artists UNESCO (1998),
Concertino Praga (1996), Martinu (2004) etc. Frantisek Soucek leads The
Penguin Quartet, a leading young Czech string quartet which wonthe first
prize at the Beethoven competition and were semifinalist at Banff and
Geneve International String Quartet competitions. He was awarded a full
scholarship to the Meadowmount School of Music (U.S.A.), where he has
studied with prof. Stephen Shipps. Frantisek performed Tchaikowski Sextet
in a group with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth in the Meadowmount
Benefit Concert. Mr. Soucek made numerous recordings for the Czech Radio,
recorded two CD´s with the quartet, both well reviewed in The Strad
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All faculty members teach chamber music