
Gala Evening
A gala evening celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Václav Hudeček Academy, featuring an awards ceremony and a concert by the Cantarina Clarinete Clarinet Quartet.
Cantarina Clarinete is a Prague all-female clarinet quartet founded in October 2011 at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) as a student project. The name - singing clarinets - reflects the group's core idea: members Hana Bahníková, Jana Lahodná, Jana Černohouzová and Věra Kestřánková (bass clarinet) combine playing with vocal parts. Their repertoire spans baroque to jazz and film music, drawing on both published arrangements and original transcriptions by Kestřánková and Zdeněk Novák. Over more than a decade they have performed at festivals including Dvořákova Praha and Zlatá Praha, and at the Rudolfinum's traditional Christmas concerts.
Cantarina Clarinete performed on December 20, 2025 at the Antonín Dvořák Memorial in Vysoká u Příbrami as part of an advent concert series.
The quartet has announced on its website a performance in the German town of Neunburg vorm Wald for October 2025.
In June 2024, the quartet performed at the town hall in the German town of Marienberg.