Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, founded in 1969, is one of the Czech Republic’s top orchestras. With a repertoire that includes a large number of compositions from the Baroque era to contemporary music, including many crossover and multi-genre projects, the orchestra is valued for its stylistic interpretations and the extraordinary quality of its orchestral sound.

It often performs at the Czech Republic’s most important festivals and at many important venues in Europe such as the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Salzburg Festspielhaus, the Herkulessaal and Gasteig in Munich, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, and many others. Outside Europe the orchestra has played in Japan and has toured extensively around America.

The orchestra has collaborated with many leading conductors, including Jiří Bělohlávek, Marco Armiliato and Mariss Jansons, and soloists including Lazar Berman, Ivan Moravec, Isabelle van Keulen, Vladimir Spivakov, Pavel Šporcl, Gabriela Demeterová, Ángel Romero, Helen Donath and Dagmar Pecková.

Marek Štilec
began his musical studies on the violin at the Prague Conservatory and studied conducting with Leoš Svárovský at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Štilec is an alumnus of the International Järvi Academy and Jac van Steen’s Emerging Conductors Series, and has participated in the masterclasses of Michael Tilson Thomas and Jorma Panula, among others. He conducts a wide range of leading orchestras, including the New World Symphony, the Ulster Orchestra, Das Kurpfälzische Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Wiener Concertverein Orchester, the Orchestra of the Swan, the London Classical Soloists, the Berlin Camerata, the Kammerphilharmonie Graz and Sinfonietta Bratislava, as well as the top orchestras in the Czech Republic.