Concerts
The Fascinating Organ at Basel Cathedral: BACH & PRAG
Ondřej Valenta, organist at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, performs works by Bach (Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major), Bonnet (Variations de Concert), Smetana (“The Moldau”), and Dvořák (Symphony “From the New World”).
This year’s traditional organ concert on the Day of Prayer at Basel Cathedral is titled: “Prague—the Golden City—Visits Basel on the Day of Prayer.” Ondřej Valenta, the young, highly talented organist at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, will perform works by Bach (Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564), Bonnet (Variations de Concert, Op. 1), Smetana (“The Moldau”), and Dvořák (Largo from the symphony “From the New World”).
Ondřej Valenta serves as cathedral organist at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, playing the spectacular new organ with 121 stops on four manuals and pedal built by the renowned Spanish organ builder Grenzing, and teaches at the local conservatory. From 2016 to 2024, he served as organist and choirmaster at the Royal Collegiate Chapter at Vyšehrad in Prague, where he co-founded the international festival “Varhanní Vyšehrad,” for which he remains the artistic director to this day. He received his musical training at the Prague Conservatory under Jan Hora and at the Academy of Performing Arts in the organ class of Pavel Černý. He pursued further studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hannfried Lucke and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Christine Schornsheim. In Prague, he also studied harpsichord with Monika Knoblochová. He performs regularly in concerts with, among others, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the PKF – Prague Philharmonia. Together with flutist Eva Prchalová and violinist Šárka Petříková, he founded the NiTrio ensemble. Recordings for radio and television, along with an active international concert schedule, attest to his versatile artistic work as a chamber musician and organ virtuoso.
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Ondřej Valenta serves as cathedral organist at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, playing the spectacular new organ with 121 stops on four manuals and pedal built by the renowned Spanish organ builder Grenzing, and teaches at the local conservatory. From 2016 to 2024, he served as organist and choirmaster at the Royal Collegiate Chapter at Vyšehrad in Prague, where he co-founded the international festival “Varhanní Vyšehrad,” for which he remains the artistic director to this day. He received his musical training at the Prague Conservatory under Jan Hora and at the Academy of Performing Arts in the organ class of Pavel Černý. He pursued further studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hannfried Lucke and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Christine Schornsheim. In Prague, he also studied harpsichord with Monika Knoblochová. He performs regularly in concerts with, among others, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the PKF – Prague Philharmonia. Together with flutist Eva Prchalová and violinist Šárka Petříková, he founded the NiTrio ensemble. Recordings for radio and television, along with an active international concert schedule, attest to his versatile artistic work as a chamber musician and organ virtuoso.
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.