Pavla Tesařová

Pavla Tesařová is considered one of the most outstanding talents of her generation. She began playing the violin at the age of seven under the guidance of Professor Hana Metelková and is currently studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Mgr. Pavel Kudelásek.

At the age of nine, she performed alongside legendary violinist Josef Suk and the Prague Philharmonia in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle. At eleven, she appeared in a live broadcast of the Golden Prague festival with Václav Hudeček. A year later, she performed Max Bruch's Violin Concerto as a soloist in a televised concert from St. Vitus Cathedral.

She is a multiple first prize winner in both national and international competitions, such as the Kocian Violin Competition (absolute winner), Talents for Europe, the Josef Muzika International Violin Competition, Prague Junior Note, New European Talents, the Josef Micka International Competition (absolute winner), Concertino Praga (laureate), Orpheus, Pro Bohemia (absolute winner), Pula Croatian Competition (absolute winner), and the Musical Competition of Società Umanitaria in Milan. In 2020, she won the France Music Competition in Paris and the Manhattan Music Competition in New York. In 2023, she received the Grand Prix at the Beethoven International Competition in the UK and was awarded the Viktor Kalabis Foundation Prize for the best student of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In January 2024, she won a prize at the Franco Gulli International Competition in Rome and succeeded in the audition for the position of concertmaster with the Prague Philharmonia.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Prague Philharmonia, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Zielona Gora Philharmonic, South Bohemian Philharmonic, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, Europera, Pilsen Philharmonic, North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, Dvořák Chamber Orchestra, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Virtuosi di Praga, among many others.

She has appeared as a soloist under the baton of renowned conductors including Libor Pešek, Jan Talich, Tomáš Brauner, Jessica Cottis, Gudni A. Emilsson, Jaroslav Vodňanský, Miloš Krejčí, Miriam Němcová, Chuhei Iwasaki, Czesław Grabowski, Koji Kawamoto, and Alfonso Scarano. In 2025, she recorded a solo CD with conductor Jaroslav Krček and the Suk Chamber Orchestra. She also appeared in a live television broadcast on Czech Television with conductor Robert Kružík and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra.

Pavla performs in a duo with accordionist Markéta Laštovičková and with her sister, oboist Bohdana Tesařová. Since 2020, she has also served as the first violinist of the Ševčík Quartet, with whom she studied under the renowned professor G. Pichler in Madrid.

She plays a Czech violin made by Jaroslav Kohout (2016), which she won at the 20th Václav Hudeček Academy.

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