{"id":7573,"date":"2025-12-08T11:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:13:55","slug":"wihanovo-kvarteto-a-jan-mracek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/fest\/wihanovo-kvarteto-a-jan-mracek\/","title":{"rendered":"Wihan Quartet and Jan Mr\u00e1\u010dek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The renowned Wihan Quartet, which is celebrating 40 years since its founding, entered the world concert stage by winning the International String Quartet Competition in London in 1991, having already won first prize at the Prague Spring International Music Competition three years earlier. It has enjoyed success not only in Czechia, but also in Europe, the Far East, Japan, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. In Great Britain, it has been nominated three times for the Royal Philharmonic Society Award. It is a laureate of many international competitions. It was recently the resident ensemble at London&#8217;s prestigious Wigmore Hall. Its discography includes over 40 CDs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Josef Suk (1874-1935)<br \/>\nMeditation on the Old Czech Chorale Saint Wenceslas, Op. 35a<\/p>\n<p>Bed\u0159ich Smetana (1824-1884)<br \/>\nString Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life<br \/>\nAllegro vivo appassionato<br \/>\nQuasi Polka<br \/>\nLargo sostenuto<br \/>\nVivace. Meno presto<\/p>\n<p>Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k (1841-1904)<br \/>\nString Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 97<br \/>\nAllegro non tanto<br \/>\nAllegro vivo<br \/>\nLarghetto<br \/>\nFinale. Allegro giusto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nJan Mr\u00e1\u010dek \u2013 concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, member of the KHS 2026 expert jury<br \/>\nWihan Quartet: Leo\u0161 \u010cepick\u00fd \u2013 violin, Jan Schulmeister \u2013 violin, Jakub \u010cepick\u00fd \u2013 viola, Michal Ka\u0148ka \u2013 cello<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wihan_Quartet_Ref_09_Please_Credit_Petra_Hajska-768x518-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wihan_Quartet_Ref_09_Please_Credit_Petra_Hajska-768x518-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wihan_Quartet_Ref_09_Please_Credit_Petra_Hajska-768x518-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jan_Mracek_01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned Wihan Quartet, which is celebrating 40 years since its founding, entered the world concert stage by winning the International String Quartet Competition in London in 1991, having already won first prize at the Prague Spring International Music Competition three years earlier. It has enjoyed success not only in Czechia, but also in Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fest","category-programy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9KsEQ-1Y9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kocianovo-usti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}