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Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

Band,
Classical
A.k.a. Slovenská filharmónia

The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra was established as a professional orchestra in Bratislava (formerly Pressburg) in 1949. Note: Not to be confused with the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice and Philharmonia Slavonica. Slovakia, which, with Bohemia and Moravia, became the Republic of Czecho-slovakia in 1918, was the source of a great deal of music during the years of the Habsburg Empire. This musically fertile region had been influenced by Viennese, Hungarian and Bohemian music and it is these influences that have given the Slovak Philharmonic one of Europe's finest orchestras, its unique character .On its many international tours, and at festivals throughout Europe, the orchestra has been praised for its great musicality and it has been compared by enthusiastic. critics with such world-class orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic. The orchestra benefited considerably from the work of its distinguished conductors. These included Vaclav Talish (1949-1952), Ludovit Rajter and Ladislav Slovak. The Czech conductor Libor Pesek was appointed resident conductor in 1981, and the present Principal Conductor is the Slovak musician Bystrik Rezucha. Zdenek Kosler has also had a long and distinguished association with the orchestra and has conducted many of its most successful recordings, among them the complete symphonies of Dvorak. During the years of its professional existence the Slovak Philharmonic has worked under the direction of many of the most distinguished conductors from abroad, from Eugene Goossens and Malcolm Sargent to Claudio Abbado, Antal Dorati and Riccardo Muti. The orchestra has undertaken many tours abroad, for example to Germany and Japan, and has made a large number of recordings for the Czech Opus label, for Supraphon, for Hungaroton and, in recent years, for the Marco Polo label. These recordings have brought the orchestra a growing international reputation and praise from the critics of leading international publications.

Members

	Juraj Griglák cb, eb *1963
	Tibor Nagy cb, cwb
	Ladislav Kupkovic *1936 DE
	Václav Talich vn 1883-1961 CZ
	Vieroslav Matušík b *1927
	František Magyar vl
	Vladimír Miklovič
	Kornel Klatt
	Michal Vavro g, cb, vn
	Gabriel Szathmáry vn
	Lukáš Polák vc, voc
	Emmanuel Villaume *1964 FR
	Ewald Danel
	Miloš Števove frh *1959
	Boris Boho vc
	Karol Vontszemü
	Nikolaj Kanišák
	Ján Slávik vc SK
	Rastislav Suchán tr, pic *1972
	Siloš Pohanka tr 1926-2011
	Václav Votruba
	Yvetta Slezáková
	Viliam Schowanetz
	Milan Frátrik
	Ladislav Maršovský
	Zuzana Paštéková vn *1978
	Jozef Luptáčik cl 1947-2007
	Jaroslav Šimko vc
	Robert Vizvári g, b
	Viliam Vojčík alp
	Tomáš Jánošik fl
	Roman Mešina bsn
	Igor Fábera ob
	Branislav Belorid tb
	Lubomír Kamenský tr, cor
	Jozef Horváth
	Vladimír Berenik
	Jozef Eliáš SK
	Radomir Cikatricis
	Csaba Rácz vc
	Tomáš Kaiser
	Roman Vrablik vc
	Roman Rusňák
	Igor Bielik
	Petr La Garde tr
	Albert Hrubovcak tb
	Kovács Orsolya vc
	František Černý vn, vl
	Michal Motýl tb
	Jozef Luptáčik cl *1974