Jan Mráček (1991) comes from a musical family and started playing the violin at the age of five. At present he is studying the violin at the Prague Conservatory in the class of Professor Jiří Fišera. From a young age he has performed on important concert stages – for instance aged just 14 he played the 1st movement of the D minor violin concerto by Jean Sibelius in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfínum.
He is a winner of numerous competitions – he won the first prize in the international violin competition of J. Kocian in Ústí nad Orlicí in 2005 and 2006, became the absolute winner of the national round of the Concertino Praga in 2006 and received the highest appraisal during the Summer musical courses of Václav Hudeček in Luhačovice (2005, 2006). Jan Mráček performed with this prominent Czech violin virtuoso at concerts during his pre-Christmas tour, at concerts in the Prague Castle and at the official opening of the exhibition “Saint Wenceslav, the guardian of the Czech lands”.

Jan Mráček’s greatest success is the second prize he won amongst tough competition in the Prague Spring competition in May 2010. This award makes him the youngest ever winner in the history of this important competition.

Ivan Vokáč (1987) is a graduate of cello from the Prague Conservatory of Music and is at present studying in the class of Professor Miroslav Petráš at the Academy of Music in Prague. In 2008 he performed Antonín Dvořák’s B minor cello concerto at the opening concert of the Prague Conservatory celebrations in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfínum.

Of his many competition successes we must at least mention the 1st prize he received in Liezen, Austria in 2002, the 1st prize at the Dotzauer competition in Dresden 2005, his victory in the B. Martinů competition in Prague in 2008 and his absolute victory in the radio competition Concertino Praga in 2006.

Lukáš Klánský (1989) chose the piano as his instrument at the age of five. He is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory from the class of Professor Eva Boguniová. From the autumn of 2010 he is a student of the Academy of Music in Prague. He has performed as a soloist the piano concertos of L. van Beethoven, W.A. Mozart, F. Mendelssohn and F. Chopin in front of Prague audiences in the Simon and Judas Church and in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfínum.

Amongst his most important competition successes is the 1st prize in the international piano competition in Vresse (Belgium 2002), the 1st prize in the international piano competition in Agropole (Italy 2003), the 1st prize and the absolute victory in the competition of Czech Conservatories in 2004 and 2007, the 1st prize in the international competition “Beethoven’s Hradec” and the 1st prize in the international competition of Karl Drechsel Forderpreis in Nürnberg in 2007.

Barbora Perná (*1990 ) belongs amongst our best Czech current singing talents. This soprano, although still a student of the Prague Conservatory in the class of professor
Jiřina Marková – Krystlíková, already appears as a guest in the Moravian Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava as Arsinda in Il Cavaliere errante, as Barberina in The Marriage of Figaro and as Sophie in Werther. In Pilsen she has sung the role of Musetta in La boheme and Terinka in The Jacobin.

As a sixteen year old she attended singing courses in Riva del Garda with Mieta Sighele and Veriano Luchetti. As a soloist of the Children's Opera Prague she performed at EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan, and appeared also in Bayreuth, Vienna and the Bastille Opera House in Paris.

She is a winner of numerous first places in both Czech and international competitions (such as the Prague Singer, the Dušek Vocal Competition, the Competition of Conservatoires of the Czech Republic). In the 2006 Antonín Dvořák International Singers' Competition she received an honourable mention and the Jarmila Novotná award against keen international competition.

In 2009 she became the Grand Prix winner at the Prague Singer Competition.

In 2010 Barbora Perná took part in two important international competitions – Juventus Canti in Vráble, Slovakia, where she was awarded the first prize in the under 30 category as well as being granted the Special Prize for Interpretation by the Jury. Her last and biggest success is winning the Antonín Dvořák International Singers' Competition in Karlovy Vary in November 2010. Besides the first prize she also received a number of other.