Petr Maceček,
violinist, pedagogy and soloist.
He studied violin at the Ostrava Conservatory under Professor Ladislav Gořula and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Professor Václav Snítil. He has received several competition awards, the most notable being a special prize at the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Lublin, Poland (1979), and the title of laureate and absolute winner of the Kocian Violin Competition in Ústí nad Orlicí (1980).
Petr Maceček served as concertmaster of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra (1988–1991), concertmaster and artistic director of the Capella Istropolitana Chamber Orchestra in Bratislava (1991–1994), and a member of the New Bratislava Trio. After moving to Prague, he was concertmaster of the Suk Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Martinů String Quartet (1994–1997). He then worked as concertmaster of the Prague Chamber Orchestra until 2002. From 2000 to 2011, he was a member of the Talich Quartet.
Since 2010, he has been teaching at Ostrava University and the International Conservatory in Prague. During this period, he resumed his solo concert career. His most prominent chamber music partners are pianists Miroslav Sekera, Norbert Heller, and Pavel Voráček. In 2015–2016, together with Pavel Voráček, he prepared and performed the complete cycle of Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano in a series of concerts. Currently, he is preparing the complete cycle of works for violin and piano by Bohuslav Martinů.
He has also taught at international masterclasses in Prague, Telč, Dartington, Prades, and Fayance. In February 2018, he led violin courses at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Jacopo Tomadini in Udine, Italy. In March 2019, he was invited to lead violin courses at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg, Germany. In June 2021, he received an invitation to conduct violin courses at the University of the Balearic Islands in Mallorca, Spain, where he has been teaching annually ever since.
Since 2019, he has been a violin teacher at the International Conservatory in Prague. In 2020, he became both a violin instructor and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Ostrava University.
