2018 Winners

Soňa Červená
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Soňa Červená is a Czech opera singer and an actress. In 1948, she became a member of the Czech Voskovec & Werich Theatre ensemble; she worked with the Janáček Opera in Brno, performed at the Prague Spring festival, and subsequently performed with the State Opera in Berlin. After emigrating in 1962, she performed as a visiting member at some of the world’s leading opera stages, such as the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Palermo, or the San Francisco Opera, where she worked for eleven seasons. She is the holder of the Alfréd Radok Award, a special award as part of the The Czech Actors’ Association Thalia Awards, presented to her from the hands of then President Václav Havel. She was awarded the Artis Bohemiae Amicis Prize for representing Czech art both home and abroad.

Josef PANČÍK
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Josef Pančík is a choirmaster, and ranks among the most influential Czech conductors. He has enjoyed an extraordinary artistic career, from the more than 50 years serving as a choirmaster in the Janáček Opera in Brno, through his work with the Brno madrigalists, to his more recent work with the Prague Chamber Choir. He has raised a number of young artists at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, and his unmistakable choirmaster technique has been captured in countless recordings, released by some of the world’s top-tier record labels.

Music publishing house Bärenreiter
2018 International Ambassador of Czech Music

Milan Al-Ashabc
2018 Talent of the Year

Jiří Vodička
Best Solo Performance
Camille Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen fantasy, op. 25
Rudolfinum – 1. 1. 2018

Bennewitz Quartet
Best Chamber Music Performance
Robert Schumann, Bohuslav Martinů
Franz Schubert – chamber concert of ČSKH
Rudolfinum – 29. 1. 2018

Prague Philharmonic Choir
Best Vocal Performance
choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek
Gustav Mahler: symphony č. 2 c moll “ Resurrection”
Rudolfinum – 10. 10. 2018

Czech Philharmony
Best Orchestral Performance
conductor Semjon Byčkov
Gustav Mahler: symphony č. 2 c moll “ Resurrection”
Rudolfinum – 10. 10. 2018

Baborák Ensemble
Recording of the Year
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concert Symphonies Supraphon

Katta
Crossover
The Vox Organi Project – organ recital
Olomouc – 30. 9. 2018

Kryštof Mařatka
Contemporary Composition
origINovation
Salle Cortot, Paris – 16. 4. 2018

Prague Philharmonic Choir
The Czech Television Award
conductor Lukáš Vasilek
Gustav Mahler: symphony č. 2 c moll “ Resurrection”
Rudolfinum – 10. 10. 2018