Where: Baroque Refectory,
Jilská 234/5, Prague 1
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The Guitar September Festival will present the best of classical guitar in Prague. The program will feature performances by top guitarists on six extraordinary evenings.
Julia and Christian Zielinski will give a recital in the Baroque Refectory.
Artis Guitar Duo – Julia and Christian Zielinski
There is no doubt that the Artis Guitar Duo has secured a permanent place in the international concert world. True to the motto “the guitar is an orchestra,” both musicians cover the entire color spectrum of their instruments and play entirely from memory.
Numerous invitations to international music festivals and concert tours have taken the duo to Italy, Belgium, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia, Scotland, the Czech Republic, Kosovo, and Poland as artists, teachers, and jury members. At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, they have already performed as cultural ambassadors in Brazil, China, and Andalusia. As soloists, they have performed with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurter Solisten, the New Chamber Orchestra Dresden, and the Camerata suevica. The duo also regularly participates in selected productions of the Frankfurt Opera.
Several first and second prizes at international chamber music competitions in Italy, Spain, Liechtenstein, and Germany, as well as numerous audience awards, confirm the duo’s exceptional quality. Guitar legend Pepe Romero praised the Artis Guitar Duo as “exceptional guitarists and extraordinary musicians.” The RP newspaper wrote: “Musical unity in the most perfect way.” In 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023, the prestigious radio stations SWR and HR broadcast full-length recordings of their concerts. They successfully graduated with honors from universities in Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, and Hamburg, where they were honored as the first guitar duo in the university’s history to receive the highest postgraduate degree with honors.
Julia and Christian Zielinski, both born in 1987, are scholarship holders of the highly qualified ING DiBa and DAAD foundations. In addition, they have regularly performed for the charity organization Yehudi Menuhin Society Live Music Now.
At the age of 19, they recorded their first CD with premiere recordings of Beethoven and Pujol. In 2013, their second CD, Portrait, was released by Karlklang. In 2016, they both released solo CDs, Versus and Solo, thereby strengthening their qualities as independent artists. In 2019, they released their latest CD project, Baroque Masterpieces, with NAXOS and received great critical acclaim in the trade press. During the pandemic, they recorded a DVD with the program Guitaromanie a deux, which was filmed in the hall of Wiesbaden-Biebrich Castle.
TICKETS
The ticket price for members of the Concert Club is 200 CZK (+ 10 CZK for the GoOut service fee), the regular ticket price is 350 CZK.
How to purchase a ticket?
At https://goout.net/cs/listky/artis-guitar-duo/hmlfb/, select Basic Admission and enter the discount code: KONCERTNIKLUB