Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
) is a Slovak cellist and artistic director. He is a performer of classical and contemporary cello repertoire as well as Chassidic and Roma-Gypsy revivalist music in
Eastern Europe
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and is the
artistic director
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of the Konvergencie Festivals in Slovakia.
Awards
* Award for Cultural Activity in Music for "After Phurikane", 2010 & 2011
* Nomination for the Crystal Wing Awards, 2010
* Frico Kafenda Award, 2009
* Award from the Minister of Culture for Success as Concert Artist & Konvergencie Festival, 2009
* May Mukle Cello Prize, Royal Academy of Music, London, 1997
* Banff Centre for the Arts, Long Term Artistic Residency, Canada, 1994
* International Cello Competition, Liezen, Austria, 1994
* International Competition for Young Cellists, Jury Prize, Murcia, Spain, 1989
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ( sk, Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, link=no), previously known as Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and CSR Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony radio orchestra based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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, Slovak Music Fund, 2013
* Chassidic Songs: Chassidic
Jewish Music
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with Rabbi
Baruch Myers
Rabbi Baruch Myers (born May 2, 1964 in Orange, New Jersey) is a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He began his service in Bratislava in 1993. He serves as the Chief Rabbi and head Shliach of Slovakia.
Biography
Baruch Myers was born in Or ...
St John's, Smith Square
St John's Smith Square is a redundant church in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London. Sold to a charitable trust as a ruin following firebombing in the Second World War, it was restored as a concert hall.
This Grade I listed churc ...
, Slovak Music Centre
* Cello-Bach, Jeffery, Burgr, Iršai, Zagar, Wolff, Improvisations: MI 2001
* Johann Sebastian Bach – Complete Suites for Solo Cello – BWV 1007–1012: First complete Slovak Recording, Porta Libri, 2001
* Music For Cello – Vladimír Godár:
Slovart Records
Slovart Music is an independent publisher of classical music in Slovakia. According to the company's website, it is "the oldest and largest independent music publishing house" in its country.Slovart Music 1996
* Slovak Composers (Matej, Zagar, Burlas): Veni ensemblom /Slov.hudobný fond/1992 Musica/1996
* Philip Ratliff – String Quartett:
Banff Centre
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Label, 1994
* Brahms – Sonate F dur, Hindemith – Solo Sonate, M.Burlas- Agónia: with pianist Nora Skuta, OPUS Records, 1994