PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 887
Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1, Op. 72
Mikołaj Majkusiak: *Dyad*
Anton Aslamas: New work for solo piano (commissioned by the festival)
Jules Massenet: Meditation from *Thaïs*
Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for Cello, Op. 28
Veli Kujala: *Paganini Variations*
Pablo de Sarasate: *Zigeunerweisen*, Op. 20

PERFORMERS

Filip Fehér – violin (laureate of the Kroměříž Summer Academy)
Anna Meipariani – cello (winner of the Beethoven’s Hradec Performance Competition 2025)
Viktor Stocker – accordion (laureate of the Concertino Praga Competition 2025)
Anton Aslamas – piano (laureate of the Kroměříž Summer Academy)

A Sunday afternoon in Hukvaldy will resonate with performances by outstanding young musicians who rank among the most promising talents of their generation. The programme offers an exceptionally diverse musical journey: from the Baroque depth of Johann Sebastian Bach, through the emotionally charged solo sonata by Mieczysław Weinberg, the energy-filled Paganini Variations by Finnish composer Veli Kujala, to the virtuosic Zigeunerweisen by Pablo de Sarasate.

Also featured will be a new solo piano work commissioned by the festival from the young pianist and composer Anton Aslamas, who will appear on stage as both composer and performer. Other performers include violinist Filip Fehér, cellist Anna Meipariani, and accordionist Viktor Stocker—laureates of prestigious competitions and academies.

Selected young laureates of major Czech competitions will present themselves in virtuosic works by composers ranging from the Baroque era to the present day. Pianist Anton Aslamas will perform the Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor from the second book of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. Composed in 1738, the work dazzles with sparkling toccata-like passages as well as the polyphonic mastery of its three-voice fugue. That Aslamas is not only an outstanding pianist but also a gifted composer will be revealed in his new piano work written on commission for the festival.

Georgian-German cellist Anna Meipariani will demonstrate her artistry in the Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 72 by Mieczysław Weinberg. This Polish-Russian composer of Jewish origin was a close friend of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical language deeply influenced Weinberg’s cello sonata from 1960. Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Cello, Op. 28 (1923) is an exceptionally demanding technical work, comparable in difficulty to the composer’s far more famous violin sonatas.

Viktor Stocker has lived with the accordion since the age of six. For his performance, he selected Dyad, a solo accordion piece by Polish composer Mikołaj Majkusiak, written in 2016. The work is a strikingly personal and modern accordion solo—energetic, rhythmically fluid, yet sensitive—transforming the accordion into a purely expressive and dramatic voice. Virtuosic accordion variations on the world-famous Paganini Violin Caprice No. 24 were created in 1999 by Finnish accordionist and composer Veli Kujala.

Slovak violinist Filip Fehér was only thirteen years old when he became a laureate of the Kroměříž Summer Academy. His violin will bring to life both the beautifully lyrical Meditation from Jules Massenet’s opera Thaïs and the energetic, dazzling Zigeunerweisen by the legendary Spanish violinist Pablo de Sarasate.