The Gallery of Music — Spring 2023

Maroš Klátik studied piano at the Bratislava Conservatory and at JAMU in Brno and later continued with his studies as a doctoral student at AFAD. During his academic years, he won the first place and became the laureate of the International Competition of Young Performers 2006 Vienna, he also won the first place and became the laureate of the Kaukko Sorjonen Foundation 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland and again won the first place at Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe 2008. 

In 2007, he started performing as a soloist at the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, the Janáček Academic Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonics Zlín, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra – Mariánské Lázně, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra Bohdan Warchal and others.

As a soloist and chamber player, he performed at many musical festivals, such as the Janáček Brno Festival, Bratislava Music Festival, Gallery of Music Nitra, Musica nobilis Spiš, Pianoforte-Fest Meissen, Pažaislio muzikos festivalis Kaunas – Lithuania, Chopin-Festival Gaming – Austria, EPTA. He regularly performs at the Albrechtina – Unknown Music festival. As a soloist and chamber player, he has performed in many countries of Europe, Asia and the U.S. He teaches at the Bratislava Conservatory and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. Maroš Klátik has been a longtime artistic friend of Rolf Beck and the International Choir Academy. 

Juraj Tomka, after his studies at the Bratislava Conservatory, he continued at Bratislava’s Academy of Performing Arts. Later he also studied at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and also at Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has won several performance competitions, e.g. the YAMAHA Music Foundation award in 2010.

He has performed with several international musical orchestras: International Youth Symphony Orchestra, Bremen, Wiener Jeunesse Orchester, Vienna, European Union Youth Orchestra led by world-famous conductors. He has also performed with the Slovak Philharmonic, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Capella Istropolitana, Spira mirabilis, the Slovak Quartet, Ján Strmenský String Quartet, the Istropolis Piano Trio.

At the moment, he is the first violinist of the Mucha Quartet, but he also performs solo, e.g. with the Bratislava Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the State Chamber Orchestra of Žilina, the State Philharmonic Košice, the Moyzes Quartet, the VŠMU Baroque Ensemble, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra. He has performed solo on multiple occasions at the Bratislava Music Festival. He teaches violin at the Bratislava Conservatory and the Music and Dance Faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts. 

Prague Quiet Music Collective is a young ensemble for contemporary music focusing on lower volume levels, slower pace and increased attention. Since its inception in 2021, they have introduced more than twenty new scores which they perform as concert guests in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also at their own concerts in Prague – mostly at the annual Prague Quiet Music Festival. In 2022, they started collaborating with the Prague City Gallery which resulted into the Five Uncertain Situations exhibition which has introduced five newly contracted works, responding to five pieces of art from the Prague City Gallery collection. The ensemble has also prepared five full-length evening concerts: Ryōkan in Banská Štiavnica (music, Japanese zen poetry and field recordings from the Central Slovakia region – created during their residency at the Eleuzína Cultural Centre) and Sitting Down (a tea ceremony with live music for twelve people)