The indisputable winner of the International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition 2016, Lukáš Vondráček, has an exciting 2018/19 season ahead of him. It sees him work with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Juraj Valčuha, BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Xian Zhang and Orchestre national de Lorraine. He will return to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo. Recitals will take him to the Flagey in Brussels, Società Filarmonica de Trento, Vancouver Chopin Society, Philharmonie Haarlem, Casa da Música in Porto and to Deutschlandfunk Cologne.
Recent highlights include concerts with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Baltimore Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, and National Orchestra of Belgium amongst others; as well as recitals at Wiener Konzerthaus, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Louvre, the Concertgebouw and at festivals such as PianoEspoo in Finland.
Lukáš Vondráček made his first public appearance at the age of four. His debut as a fifteen-year-old in 2002 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy was followed by a major US tour in 2003.
