Martin Kasik - Biography
Martin Kasik is an outstanding young Czech pianist. He has won many prizes including the prestigious New York Young Concert Artists Competition in 1999 where he was also awarded the Pasadena Symphony Soloist Prize and the Beracasa Foundation Prize of the Montpelier Radio-France Festival. Other honours include First Prize in the Prague Spring Competition in 1998, the 1999 Akzo Nobel Prize, and the prestigious Davidoff Prize, awarded to him in 2000.
Martin Kasík (b.1976) has been playing the piano since the age of four. He studied at the Ostrava Conservatoire with Monika Taugendlieb and at the Prague Music Academy with Ivan Klánský. He regularly attended courses at home and abroad (Paris, Villecroze, Piestany, České Budějovice, Ostrava) where his teachers have included Lazar Berman, Eugen Injic, Christian Zacharias, Paul Badura-Skoda, Claud Herffel and Pierre Jasmin.
Martin Kasík has given concerts in a number of European countries (the Netherlands – Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Finland – Finlandia Hall Helsinki, Spain - Auditorio di Barcelona, France - Théâtre du Châtelet, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Poland - Duszniky Chopin Festival, USA - Alice Tully Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Japan - Tokyo Suntory Hall and Singapore - Singapore Victoria Concert Hall).
He has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras (New York Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic) Bournemouth Symphony with Marin Alsop and Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich. In 2002 he appeared at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum concert series in New York and he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. He has given concerts in the USA, Japan (tour with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), Switzerland (Tonhalle, Zürich), Mallorca, Germany and the UK (including The Sage, Gateshead, St George’s Hall, Liverpool and Wigmore Hall with the Wihan).
He has recorded for Czech, German, Swedish and Missouri Radio and for Czech Television. He has made five CDs and his disc, ‘Martin Kasík - Live from Prague’, featuring works by Schumann and Rakhmaninov on the ARCO DIVA label was awarded the highest rating in the French musical magazine ´Repertoire´. It compared Kasík´s interpretations of Schumann´s Kreisleriana to those of Martha Argerich and Vladimir Horowitz, and wrote: “Les Kreisleriana sont du même toneau, c´est à dire du niveau d´Argerich et Horowitz!“
Martin Kasík (b.1976) has been playing the piano since the age of four. He studied at the Ostrava Conservatoire with Monika Taugendlieb and at the Prague Music Academy with Ivan Klánský. He regularly attended courses at home and abroad (Paris, Villecroze, Piestany, České Budějovice, Ostrava) where his teachers have included Lazar Berman, Eugen Injic, Christian Zacharias, Paul Badura-Skoda, Claud Herffel and Pierre Jasmin.
Martin Kasík has given concerts in a number of European countries (the Netherlands – Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Finland – Finlandia Hall Helsinki, Spain - Auditorio di Barcelona, France - Théâtre du Châtelet, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Poland - Duszniky Chopin Festival, USA - Alice Tully Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Japan - Tokyo Suntory Hall and Singapore - Singapore Victoria Concert Hall).
He has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras (New York Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic) Bournemouth Symphony with Marin Alsop and Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich. In 2002 he appeared at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum concert series in New York and he made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. He has given concerts in the USA, Japan (tour with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), Switzerland (Tonhalle, Zürich), Mallorca, Germany and the UK (including The Sage, Gateshead, St George’s Hall, Liverpool and Wigmore Hall with the Wihan).
He has recorded for Czech, German, Swedish and Missouri Radio and for Czech Television. He has made five CDs and his disc, ‘Martin Kasík - Live from Prague’, featuring works by Schumann and Rakhmaninov on the ARCO DIVA label was awarded the highest rating in the French musical magazine ´Repertoire´. It compared Kasík´s interpretations of Schumann´s Kreisleriana to those of Martha Argerich and Vladimir Horowitz, and wrote: “Les Kreisleriana sont du même toneau, c´est à dire du niveau d´Argerich et Horowitz!“
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