Following recent debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh,Tokyo Metropolitan and Frankfurt Radio symphony orchestras as well as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lukáš Vondráček has a season packed with highlights ahead of him. In 2020/21 the indisputable winner of the 2016 International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition will perform with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Japan Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille,Turku Philharmonic and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. In addition, the Czech pianist is Artist in residence at the Dvořák Festival in Prague and with the Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava. Important recital dates will take him to the KKL in Lucerne or the Rudolfinum in Prague.
Over the last decade Lukáš Vondráček has travelled the world working with orchestras such as the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony orchestras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic and Netherlands Philharmonic orchestras. Recitals have led him to Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Flagey in Brussels, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and to renowned festivals such as Menuhin Festival Gstaad, PianoEspoo in Finland, Prague Spring Festival and Lille Piano Festival.
After finishing his studies at the Academy of Music in Katowice and the Vienna Conservatoire, Lukáš Vondráček obtained an Artist Diploma from Boston’s New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Hung-Kuan Chen, graduating with honours in 2012.