Ohrid, 14 July 2025 (MIA) – Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček will give a recital in Ohrid's St. Sophia church at 9 pm, playing works by Johannes Brahms, Alexander Scriabin, Antonín Dvořák and Robert Schumann.

Vondráček will perform Brahms's Seven Fantasies, Op.116; Scriabin's Fantasy in B minor, Op.28; Dvořák's Humoresque Op.101 No.7 and Schumann's Humoreske Op.20.

The concert is part of Ohrid Summer festival's programming.

Lukáš Vondráček (b. 1986, Opava) graduated with honors from Boston’s New England Conservatory in 2012. Born to profesional pianist parents, he had his first piano recital at the age of four. As a 15-year-old in 2002, he made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy, which was followed by a major US tour in 2003. He has won numerous piano competitions, including the 2016 International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition.

As a soloist, he has performed with leading world orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan, Frankfurt Radio, Czech Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic.

Also, Vondráček has frequently worked with renowned conductors including Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Jakub Hrůša, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Klaus Mäkelä, Michael Tilson Thomas, Giancarlo Guerrero, Manfred Honeck, Xian Zhang, Pietari Inkinen, Vasily Petrenko, Anu Tali and Stéphane Denève.

In recitals, Lukáš has performed at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Flagey in Brussels, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and to renowned festivals such as Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Edinburgh International Festival, Chopin and his Europe, Le Piano Symphonique at KKL, PianoEspoo in Finland, Prague Spring Festival and Lille Piano Festival.

Vondráček’s 2024/25 season highlights include concerts with the Luzern Symphony Orchestra as well as an Asia tour with the Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša; performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Copenhagen Philharmonic under Thomas Dausgaard, Orchestre National de Lille under Jean-Claude Casadesus, Dresden Philharmonic under Maxim Emelyanychev, Janáček Philharmonic under Daniel Raiskin and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Tomáš Brauner.

In addition to his piano recital in Ohrid, Vondráček’s recitals this season include performances at the Salle Philharmonique in Liège and at Flagey in Brussels. mr/