Jan Schulmeister / piano

Jan Schulmeister (*2006) is now enrolled in the studio of Martina Schulmeisterová at the P. J. Vejvanovský Conservatoire in Kroměříž. Besides that, he is gaining experience at masterclasses led by important Czech and foreign teachers, having worked in particular with Prof. Alena Vlasáková (Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno) and Prof. Ewa Kupiec (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Hannover, Germany).

From age seven, he has taken part regularly at piano competitions, achieving remarkable results, carrying away first prizes and overall victory at more than 40 prestigious competitions all over Europe and the USA including the César Franck Piano Competition (2019, Belgium), Piano Talents (2014, 2017, Italy), the North International Music Competition (2021, Sweden), the Manhattan International Competition (2022, USA), and more competitions in Estonia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Luxembourg, Italy, and North Macedonia. At many of these competitions, he has also won a number of special prizes. He is also a three-time finalist at the International Radio Competition Concertino Praga, where in the solo category in 2020 he earned honourable mention and the EMCY Prize and in 2021 he won Second Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Prize for the Best Czech Participant. Then in 2023 in the chamber music category, he and the violinist Daniel Matejča won First Prize, the Audience Prize, the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Prize for the best interpretation of a work by that composer, and the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation Prize for the best interpretation of a work of the 20th or 21st centuries. However, his biggest competition success so far has been Third Prize at one of the world’s most prestigious competitions for young pianists, the Junior Cliburn International Piano Competition, held in June 2023 in Dallas, Texas (USA).

Besides giving concerts in the Czech Republic, he has also appeared in England, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the USA, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, and North Macedonia. In the Czech Republic, he has been invited to perform at such important events as the Prague Spring Festival, the Dvořák Prague Festival, Smetana’s Litomyšl, the Chopin Festival in Mariánské Lázně, and many others. Thanks to successes at competitions, he has opportunities to collaborate with orchestras and important conductors at home and abroad. As a chamber musician, he collaborates regularly in a duo with the violinist Daniel Matejča and with the Wihan Quartet.

Jan Schulmeister is a member of the PETROF Art Family, and has scholarships from the Komárek Family Foundation and from the Magdalena Kožená Foundation.

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