Pavel Šporcl

Pavel Šporcl

ranks among the foremost representatives of today’s young generation of violinists. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory, and subsequently in Professor Václav Snítil´s class at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. From 1991 to 1996 he pursued his schooling in the U.S.A. He finished his American studies at the famous Juilliard School of Music, with the legendary Dorothy DeLay. Beyond that, he frequented several seminars and master classes conducted by Isaak Stern, Pinchas Zukerman and Ida Haendel. He has worked with numerous orchestras, conductors and with a number of outstanding soloists. A frequent guest of television and Radio programmes, Mr Šporcl has to his credit a list of formidable CDs. He is the only on of Czech violinist of the young generation whose name figures in the book "Violin Virtuosi: From Paganini to the 21st Century" by the critic and music historian Henry Roth.

A milestone in Pavel Šporcl´s career was represented by his signing, in September 2001, of an exclusive recording contract with Supraphon.