Radek Babárak ( Czech: Radek Baborák ; born March 11, 1976 , Pardubice ) is a Czech horn player .
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| Date of Birth | March 11, 1976 (aged 43) |
| Place of Birth | Pardubice , Czechoslovakia |
| A country |  Czech |
| Professions | executor |
| Instruments | French horn |
| Genres | classical music |
| Collectives | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
| www.baborak.com | |
Biography
Radek Baborak was born into a musical family. He began to practice on the horn at the age of 8 under the direction of Karel Kshenek, later he graduated from the Prague Academy of Music with Bedřich Tõlszár . At the age of 12 he won the Concertino Prague contest [1] , and another 3 years later he became the winner of the third prize at the Prague Spring contest . Since then, Radek Baborak regularly won prizes at various prestigious music competitions both as a soloist and as a member of ensembles - in particular, in 1993 he was awarded the second prize of the International Competition of Performers in Geneva (the first prize was not awarded).
At the age of 18, he became a soloist in the Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1996 to 2002 worked in the German orchestras of the Munich and Bamberg Philharmonic. Since 2002 , Radek Baborak is a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra .
Baborak regularly gives solo concerts around the world, accompanied by such bands as the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the South-West Radio Orchestra of Germany , the Salzburg Mozarteum , the St. Petersburg Orchestra , NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo); performs at various festivals and events of the International Society of French Hornists . In addition, Baborak is the leader in the Afflatus wind quintet (since 1995 ). Among the conductors Baborak worked with were Seiji Ozawa , James Levine , James De Priest (with whom Baborak recorded the concert of Reinhold Glier ) and others.
Among the most important recordings of Baborak are concerts by Antonio Rosetti and works by Johann Sebastian Bach (including transcriptions of Bach's compositions for viola da gamba ).
Links
- Official website (Czech) (English) (German)