Eduard Šístek - violoncello

Eduard Šístek studied cello at the Prague Conservatory with Jaroslav Kulhan, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Mikael Ericsson, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Reinhard Latzka. He has won prizes at the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition, the Leoš Janáček International Competition in Brno, the Beethoven's Hradec International Interpretation Competition, and others. He performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Since 2012, he has been a permanent member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also a member of the Umělecká beseda (Artistic Society), where he focuses on the interpretation of contemporary compositions by Czech and international composers.


 

Under the baton of Jiří Bělohlávek, he performed Penderecki's Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, alongside his colleagues Václav Petr and Ivan Vokáč. With conductor Tomáš Brauner and the SOČR, he recorded Khachaturian's Concerto in E minor. Under the baton of Lukáš Vasilek with the Prague Philharmonic Choir, he performed John Tavener's "Svjatyj." As a soloist, he has performed with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. He has given recitals at the Prague Spring Festival and the Czech Chamber Music Society. At the Jakub Jan Ryba Festival, he performed Ryba's Concerto in C major, which he also recorded in studio for the Nibiru label in 2020. In December 2022, he performed at a concert at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid as part of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, in a chamber program featuring music of Antonín Dvořák.

Eduard Šístek collaborates with the vocal duo KCHUN (currently consisting of Martin Prokeš & Jaromír Nosek), with whom he premiered Stabat Mater by contemporary Italian composer Marco Rosano at the Lípa Musica 2022 festival in a version for two voices and cello, created by the composer specifically for this ensemble. A studio recording was made in May 2023 and released on CD in the autumn of the same year. In October 2023, they performed this piece at the Prague Music Performance festival, where dancers from the DekkaDancers ensemble joined the live musical performance with their choreography. Further performances followed in the Czech Republic, and in June 2024 they performed the same program at the Smetana's Litomyšl Festival. In the spring of 2025, they toured Germany together.

 

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