Duo Corde Brillanti

Vladislav Bláha and Tania Drobysh play a programme including works by Antonio Vivaldi, Niccolo Paganini, Nikita Koshkin, Claude Debussy and Manuel de Falla.

Vladislav Blaha was described by Musical Opinion as one of the very finest of Czech guitarists. He was the first guitarist from the Czech Republic to play at Carnegie Hall (NY) as well as the Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank Centre. He has performed in over 50 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is the winner of 4 major international guitar Competitions as well as the bronze medal at the Radio France Guitar Competition in Paris. New music is very important to him as is evidenced by no less than 30 composers from 17 different countries having dedicated work to him including Léo Brouwer, Jorge Morel, John Duarte, Francis Kleynjans and Nikita Koshkin. He has recorded 13 CDs and has played for radio and television in many countries. He is Professor of guitar at the Janacek Academy of Music Brno as well as at the Brno Conservatoire and in is the President of the Czech Classical Guitar Society and the International Guitar Festival Brno.

His partner in the Due Corde Brillanti is Tania Drobysh, an outstanding performer on mandolin, guitar and domra (a long-necked Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian folk string instrument). She was born in Prague in the Czech Republic and went on to study at the Minsk State College of Music Mikhail Glinka as well as the Belarusian State Academy of Music before returning to the Czech Republic where she formed a highly successful duo with Vladislav Bláha.