{"id":5417,"date":"2026-03-18T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/prazske-jaro-zverejnilo-program-klavirniho-festivalu-rudolfa-firkusneho-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:34:08","slug":"prague-spring-announces-the-programm-of-the-rudolf-firkusny-piano-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/prague-spring-announces-the-programm-of-the-rudolf-firkusny-piano-festival-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague Spring announces the programme of the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From 3 to 9 November 2026, the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival, presented under the auspices of Prague Spring, will hold its 14th edition at the Rudolfinum, offering five concerts this year. The festival will welcome to Prague for the first time the piano duo Evgeny Kissin and Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff, who will appear together on stage. The winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Lukas Sternath, will make his festival debut. The Czech performing tradition will be represented by Marek Koz\u00e1k, recipient of the Ji\u0159\u00ed B\u011blohl\u00e1vek Prize 2025, while the legendary Grigory Sokolov and the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Anna Vinnitskaya, will return to the festival after four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRomantic music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will predominate, including works by Czech masters. The opening concert, bringing together Evgeny Kissin and Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff on the same stage, is, in my view, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Personally, I am also very pleased that Grigory Sokolov will be returning, as he comes to the Czech Republic more or less exclusively for the Firku\u0161n\u00fd Festival,\u201d says the festival\u2019s Artistic Director Josef T\u0159e\u0161t\u00edk. As for the performers, the festival once again combines established tradition with the energy of young talents. One of the most anticipated events will be the debut of Lukas Sternath, winner of the ARD Competition Munich 2022 and recipient of the <a>ECHO Klassik Award 2024<\/a><a href=\"#_msocom_1\">[JR1]<\/a>&nbsp;, as well as the return of the outstanding pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, whose artistic profile includes appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Czech performing tradition will be represented by Marek Koz\u00e1k, last year\u2019s laureate of the Bach Competition in Leipzig and recipient of the Ji\u0159\u00ed B\u011blohl\u00e1vek Prize 2025 (his festival debut in 2020 was streamed online). The 14th edition of the Firku\u0161n\u00fd Festival will conclude in grand style with one of the most original pianists on the planet, Grigory Sokolov, whose programme \u2013 as always \u2013 remains a closely guarded secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ticket sales for all festival concerts will begin online at <a href=\"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>firkusny.cz\/en\/<\/strong><\/a> on Thursday, 19 March at 11 a.m. Until <strong>June 4th<\/strong>, tickets are automatically discounted <strong>by 20% as part of Early Bird<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 3 to 9 November 2026, the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd Piano Festival, presented under the auspices of Prague Spring, will hold its 14th edition at the Rudolfinum, offering five concerts this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firkusny.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}