Ostrava – Crossroads of Tones

Violin recital by Marie Magdalena Fuxová on 18 May 2026 (Monday) at 18:30 as part of the Music in Churches Ostrava festival. Discounted season tickets are available for the entire cycle.

Programme: "Crossroads of Tones: Dialogue of Centuries and Cultures"
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704): Rosary Sonata No. 16 – "Passacaglia – Guardian Angel"
- Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969): Polish Caprice
- Ondřej Kukal (*1964): Late Hour
- Igor Loboda (*1956): Requiem
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): Sonata for Solo Violin (for the 135th anniversary of his birth)

Marie Magdalena Fuxová is among the most prominent Czech violinists of her generation. She won first prizes at the Kocian International Violin Competition and the Czech Conservatory Competition, triumphed at the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation International Competition in Prague, and received awards from other international competitions (Zagreb, Katowice, Covilhã, H. Marteau), including special prizes for stylistically informed interpretation of works by Mozart and Beethoven and for the best performance of contemporary compositions.

She studied at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava (Mgr. Irena Vítková) and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under Ivan Štraus, further with Michael Frischenschlager in Vienna, and completed master classes with Charles Avsharian, Ruggiero Ricci, Eszter Perényi, and Václav Hudeček. She has collaborated with the Pavel Haas Quartet, with which she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and Wigmore Hall in London, and won the MIDEM Prize in Cannes. Since 2020 she has been a member of the Pražák Quartet.

In the concert series "Treasures of Classical Music" and "Music in Churches" she presents complete cycles of seminal works of the violin repertoire – from the Baroque with emphasis on historically informed performance on gut strings and with Baroque bow (Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, suites and sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, Rosary Sonatas by H. I. F. Biber) through to Classical and Romantic repertoire in collaboration with pianists Lukáš Klánský and Joananna Jimin Lee. She systematically presents lesser-known compositions, for example by Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Václav Pichl, František Benda, and Richar