Czech Chamber Music Society • L'Armonia Terrena

Eduard Šístek studied at the Prague Conservatoire and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the academic year 2015/2016 he successfully passed the internship at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Since 2011 he has been a permanent member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a laureate of the Leoš Janáček international competition 2013 in Brno.

Eduard Šístek was born in Prague in 1992. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire with Jaroslav Kulhan, at the Academy of Performing Arts with Mikael Ericsson and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Reinhard Latzko. He attended masterclasses at home (Michaela Fukačová, Jiří Bárta) and abroad (Peter Bruns, Maria Kliegel, Lluís Claret, Reinhard Latzko and others).

He participated in many prestigious national and international competitions, where he received numerous awards. He won the international cello competition in Liezen, Austria for four years in a row. He became the overall winner of the Prague Junior Note competition and the winner of competitions for a scholarship YAMAHA and Talents for Europe. He received the Oleg Podgorný Award for the most successful youngest participant in the Prague Spring competition. He is the laureate of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation competition and the Leoš Janáček international competition in Brno, as well as holder of the title “New Master on tour 2015”.

He performed at the Prague Spring IMF, Frédéric Chopin festival in Mariánské Lázně, at the Třeboňská Nocturna festival, in a series of concerts at the Czech Radio Studio Live and during the subscription concerts of the Czech Chamber Music Society in the Rudolfinum Sukʼs hall. He has given performances in the Netherlands (Concertgebouw Amsterdam etc.), Slovakia (Reduta concert hall of the Slovak Philharmonic) in Germany and Israel. Since the season 2016/2017 he has been put on a List of young artists of the Czech musical fund.

Eduard Šístek has collaborated with the Mladá Boleslav Chamber Orchestra, Žilina Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Virtuosi, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice etc. He has played under the baton of such conductors as Ondřej Kukal, Jan Zbavitel, Marek Šedivý etc.

Since 2011 he has been a permanent member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, where he occasionally played as the first player in the solo part of the Brahmsʼ Piano concerto in B-flat Major with Emanuel Ax under the baton of Edward Gardner. He has been often recording for Czech Radio.