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: Fantasy on the motifs of the fox Bystrouška (New composition 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 accompany Filip Fehér on the piano. His piano composition Fantasia on the Motifs of the Cunning Fox, commissioned by the festival, will reveal to the Hukvald audience that Aslamas is not only an excellent pianist but also a gifted composer.

Georgian-German cellist Anna Meipariani will show her art in Mieczysław Weinberg’s Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 72. This Polish-Russian composer of Jewish origin was one of Dmitri Shostakovich’s close friends, and Shostakovich’s musical language also deeply influenced the music of his cello sonata from 1960. Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for Cello, Op. 28 from 1923 is a technically extremely demanding piece, similar to the much more famous violin sonatas of this Belgian virtuoso and composer.

Viktor Stocker has been living with the accordion since he was 6 years old. For his performance, he chose the composition Dyad — a solo piece for accordion by Polish composer Mikołaj Majkusiak, written in 2016. The piece appears as a distinctly personal and modern accordion solo — an energetic, rhythmically variable and at the same time sensitive work that transforms the accordion into a purely expressive and dramatic voice. The virtuoso accordion variations on Paganini’s world-famous Violin Capriccio No. 24 were created in 1999 by Finnish accordionist and composer Veli Kujala. He will also perform the Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor from the second movement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The composition from 1738 dazzles with sparkling toccata passages, but also with the polyphonic mastery of the three-part fugue.

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.