Ondřej Soukup stepped in at 24h notice with the Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra to replace the festival’s Artistic Director John Nardolillo.
The orchestra composed of professionals from US orchestras, as well as students from across the globe, performed Mahler’s Blumine, Dvořák’s Eight’s Symphony and Brahms‘ First Symphony. Ladislav Kozderka from the Czech Philharmonic played the prominent trumpet part in Blumine. Their concert at the Mahler-Jihlava festival on 30th June was met with a standing ovation by the entire audience.
https://www.jihlava.cz/mahler-jihlava-hudba-tisicu-prague-nights-festival-orchestra/a-7835
Ondřej’s next performance is with Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto at the Royal College of Music on 7th July 2022.
Ondřej Soukup is an exciting young conductor and winner of the third prize & special prize at the Ionel Perlea International Competition (2024). His repertoire counts 350+ works by men and women. He has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Moldovan National Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Phil, the Danish Sinfonietta, and Symphony Orchestras of Ålborg, Århus, Helsingborg, Odense, and Sønderborg, among others.