Filip Martinka

Pianist Filip Martinka is a student of the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of doc. Martin Kasík. As a soloist, he has played with several major Czech orchestras. In 2018, he played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto in C minor with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, and in the same year also Grieg's Concerto with the West Bohemian Orchestra. This year, he performed Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto in concert with the PKF.

In 2019, he toured Israel and Palestine. Among his greatest competitive achievements are 1st place at the Czech Conservatory Competition (2016) and the title of laureate of the Prague Conservatory Young Piano Competition (2018). A great honour for him was performing with violin virtuoso Václav Hudeček at the concert of the Festival of Music in Prague (2017). 

In addition to solo playing, Filip also plays chamber music and piano accompaniment. For several years he has been performing with cellist Jakub Gráf. Together they won the prize of laureates at the international competition of the Czech Radio Concertino Praga (2018). He has been accompanying two important children's choirs for a long time: the Prague choir Rolnička and the Jiřičky choir from Mladá Boleslav, with whom he has successfully debuted at competitions abroad and in the Czech Republic.