Ondřej Vrabec lead the first tour of the Prague Philharmonia to South Korea in October this year!!! Ondřej Vrabec performed the Hamburg Concerto by G. Ligetti in Czech premiere performance - audio samples are available in the Audiogallery!!! Two great brittish composers finished their new horn concertos dedicated to Ondřej Vrabec. The concerto for horn and symphony orchestra by Andrew Downes will be performed in a world premiere performance in November 2012 in Birmingham, the Double Concerto for hornplayer and conductor in one person by Peter Seabourne will be performed in February 2012 with the Moravian Philharmonic!!!      Don´t miss the oportunity to have the world unique CD of the Brahms Trio Prague in your collection. The CD has gained excelent reviews both in Czech and foreign newspapers (Fanfare - USA, The Horn Call - USA, Mundo Clasico - Spain, Hudební rozhledy and Harmonie - Czech republic)!!!    

What is the horn clinic?


"Hornists for themselves" - I dared to paraphrase the motto inscribed over the proscenium of the National Theater - our national symbol, because it gives the best picture of the heart and teaching of this internet workshop. It should be a flea market of information, a place where whowever of us may give or receive a good advice, observation, experience, trick...The goods offered here are seemingly commonplace but they provide golden advice especially for young beginning players, whose lifelong study tour through the field of horn play (a hard lot indeed) is still before them. This clinic will save them much effort, time and nerves. According to Murphy's Law the essential information is usually the worst accessible information, this is twice as valid for basic levels of musical education. For these cases there is the horn clinic in our age of modern internet communication.

 

The queries whose nature is generally valid for each of us will be posted as permanent articles in the horn clinic. As for other questions, questions of individual concern, only the inquirer will receive an answer. For the future, after the reconstruction of the pages lesniroh.cz, we plan an interconnection of both webs, so that individual topics could be responded to both by me or by anyone from the visitors.

 

Let me point out that the clinic is directed mainly towards the area of problems of the horn play, it is no blog, no book of visitors, nor a bazaar with instruments and accessories. The posts which will not respect this restriction, will not be admitted to the administration. Thank you for understanding and I wish to the horn clinic to serve usefully to you all. Ondřej Vrabec