Petra Matějová

For more than a decade Petra Matějová combines in her carrier modern piano and fortepiano playing.

Her interest is to approach each repertoir with the maximum care for the sound and interpretation esthetics of the time when it was conceived, which includes also the choice of instrument. Lead by her strong interest for the music of late 18th and early 19th century, Petra Matějová started to be active in the field of early music after graduating from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in modern piano.

She was studying the fortepiano in Paris and Amsterdam, and received her PhD diploma. Her thesis on Voříšek´s piano works and the early 19th century piano style was held in an international doctorate programme at the Janáček Academy in Brno, Paris IV-Sorbonne and Paris Conservatory.

Petra Matějová divides her musical interest between the early repertoir on historical instruments and the 20th century repertoir on modern piano. As a chamber music player in modern repertoir she often appears together with the first flutist of the Symphonic Orchastra of Prague FOK Hana Brožová, members of the Škampa and Kocian quartets; in early music her main partners are the members of well renowned czech early music ensembles Musica Florea and Ensemble Inégal, or singers Franziska Gottwald and Irena Troupová. She forms a piano duet with the polish fortepianist Katarzyna Drogosz.

Petra Matějová appeared in the main recital series of her country, including two consecutive performances at the Prague Spring festival and a solo recital on both instruments at the major piano series in the Rudolfinum in Prague. She gave concerts in most European countries and is regularly invited to the festivals in Central Europe.

In France, she made a recording for the Mezzo TV as well as a solo CD with works by Schubert, Beethoven and Voříšek. She records frequently for the Czech Radio and has recorded pieces by Rejcha, Mozart, Janáček, Fibich, Voříšek (complete solo works), Tomášek, Franck, Haydn, and Mendelssohn.

Since 1995 Petra Matějová gives regular masterclasses in piano, fortepiano and chamber music. In 2007-2009 she has lead the fortepiano class at the Valtice Early music Summerschool and from 2008 to 2013 she taught the fortepiano at the Janáček Academy in Brno. She plays classical repertoir on the copy of the 1805 Anton Walter & Sohn instrument made in 2007 by Paul McNulty in Divišov.

Titles for sale:
Introduction and Rondo Brilliant for piano and orchestra, op. 22 - J. V. H. Voříšek