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Pianist Vyacheslav Grokhovsky, Jr. is a prizewinner of several international competitions including Cagliari in 2000 and Marienbad in 2003 among others. Vyacheslav performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and is a member of the E. Napravnik Piano Trio and chief director of the International Eduard Napravnik Music Festival in the Czech Republic. His international appearances include prestigious festivals in Italy, France, USA, Czech Republic, Germany and Russia. Son of preeminent Russian Composer Vyacheslav Grokhovski, he received his early music education in Moscow prior to immigrating with his family to the Czech Republic as a teenager. He holds a bachelor and a master’s degree from the Moscow Conservatory and Prague Academy of the Performing Arts and a doctorate from the Prague Conservatory.

Clarinetist Felix Slováček, Jr. is heralded by the Prague Post as “The virtuoso phenomenon and the future of Czech entertainment.” He is a versatile and charismatic performer comfortably navigating the world of classical music and jazz as well as musical theater as a singer and actor. Son of legendary Czech clarinetist, band director and conductor Antonin Slováček, Felix was exposed to a great variety of music in his early childhood and had the privilege of studying and performing alongside his internationally renowned father. He holds a master’s degree from the Prague Conservatory and has been selected as the state soloist of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, since 2014 Felix has been a regular guest conductor with the Carlsbad Symphony Orchestra and is the Artistic Producer of the International Eduard Napravnik Music Festival in Prague.