Music Style Classical

Artist History Miron Šmidák (b. 1980) began to learn playing the piano when he was four at Basic Music School in Carlsbad. He attended the Conservatory in Prague in the piano class of professor Jan Novotný. At present he studies the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of professor Emil Leichner. He attended a number of master-classes given by such pianists as Pierre Jasmin, Walter Groppenberger and Arie Vardi.Since his childhood he has successfully entered national and international competitions, in which he has got best prizes and several times he has been awarded a prize for the best interpretation of czech music (e.g. Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte, Dussek-competition, national competitions of basic music schools). When he was twelve years old he performed a concerto D major by Joseph Haydn with the Carlsbad Symphony Orchestra.In 1996 he won the first prize in the international radio competition „Concertino Praga“. In the same year he won in the Smetana Piano Competition in Hradec Králové, in which he got besides the first prize also the prize for the best interpretation of the work of Bed?ich Smetana. Two years later, in the same competition, he was awarded the second prize together with the prize for the best interpretation of a classical sonata. In 1998 he become the winner of the piano competition for conservatories „For the award of Vaclav Holzknecht“, in 1999 he won the scholarship from the European Foundation Yamaha. In October 1999 he entered together with clarinetist Jan Pa?ík the competition "European Music Prize for Youth“ in Weimar, in which were awarded the second prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the work of Paul Hindemith. In 2000 he won the 4th Prize in the "Greta Erikson's European Piano Competition“ in Karlstad (Sweden). He performed in festivals of Young Smetana Litomyšl, Young Podium in Carlsbad and the Days of Contemporary Music in Prague. He has made several records for Czech Radio and for Czech Television.

Press Reviews "Miron Smidak was most persuasive in Bach, which he played with great life and clarity, and in which clearly demonstrated his absolute command of rhythm and an obvious familiarity with baroque performance conventions (but without even the remotest trace of any mere academic dryness)..."In Czech music Miron Smidak may well be peerless: his readings of works of Slavicky and Martinu were breathtaking." --John Bell Young (USA) concert pianist and critic (review of recital in Karlstat, Sweden) ritic"Technically sovereign, tonally sophisticated, deeply rapt. The way, in which he mastered, with inner energy, explosivity as with such superior command, Stravinsky's virtuos fireworks, evoked well-earned ovation." -- Zdenek Pachovský, Musikkritiker, Karlovarské Noviny, 1998 Zdenek Pachovský, Musikkritiker Karlovarské noviny, 1998

Location Prague - Czech Republic

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