Aftertalk with Alinde Quintet and Miroslav Sekera
An informal meeting after the concert, moderated by Jiří Vejvoda, offers a glimpse behind the scenes and into the artists' personalities – their experience, humor, and humility toward music.
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Date
22/9/26
Location
St Agnes Convent
Time
9.50 pm
Moderator
JIří Vejvoda
Info
For Evening Concert Ticket Holders Only
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Alinde Quintet is a winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich (2024). The ensemble was founded in 2019 by successful young interpreters from the Czech Republic – Anna Talácková (flute), Barbora Trnčíková (oboe), David Šimeček (clarinet), Kryštof Koska (French horn) and Petr Sedlák (bassoon), who studied at renowned music universities in London, Brussels, Ljubljana, Lyon and Brno, and whose paths led them back to Prague.
Members of the Alinde Quintet are united by dedication and a sincere love for music, honesty and depth of musical expression. They proved their uniqueness by becoming prizewinners of the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition (2023) in Copenhagen, the Bucharest International Wind Quintet Competition (2019), the ODIN International Chamber Music Competition (2020), the OPUS International Chamber Music Competition (2021) and the Antonín Dvořák Chamber Music Competition in Prague (2022). Alinde Quintet were finalists of the ROSL Competition in London (2024) and in 2025 became laureates of the Czech Chamber Music Society Award.
The ensemble has been performing regularly throughout Europe since 2019 and has released several studio recordings. They have appeared at renowned music festivals such as Prague Spring Festival (CZ), Newbury Spring Festival (UK), Chiltern Arts (UK), Audi Sommer (DE), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (DE) and Lago Maggiore (IT). In 2024, Alinde Quintet presented an exclusive premiere of their own arrangement of Antonín Dvořák’s Biblical Songs for wind quintet and bass-baritone, featuring Adam Plachetka.
The musicians of the ensemble are members of professional orchestras including Czech Philharmonic, National Theatre Prague, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and EUYO. As soloists, they are prizewinners of the Prague Spring International Music Competition, the International Competition in Chieri, Pro Bohemia Ostrava and Czech Clarinet Art.
Alinde Quintet’s debut album was released in November 2025 in collaboration with Supraphon and the German broadcaster SWR.
source: Alinde Quintet
photo © Andrej Grilc
In 2002, Miroslav Sekera won first prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria. Prior to this, he received numerous awards at prestigious competitions both in the Czech Republic and abroad, including first prize at the Frédéric Chopin Competition in Mariánské Lázně, first prize at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) competition (YAMAHA Scholarship), and second prize at the International Competition in Gaillard, France. In 2016, he was honoured with the “Salon de Virtuosi” award in New York.
Sekera has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on many renowned stages worldwide, including the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, and many other prominent venues.
He regularly collaborates with Czech Radio, leading Czech orchestras, and major festivals. His frequent artistic partners include violinist Josef Špaček and horn player Radek Baborák. In 2016, he made his debut at Prague’s Rudolfinum in the “World Piano Music” concert series and also performed at the Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival.
In 2019, Sekera toured Japan with the legendary cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and appeared as a soloist at the international festival in Karuizawa, Japan, performing Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major. In 2020, Supraphon released his solo album featuring works by Franz Liszt and Bedřich Smetana, which received critical acclaim, including recognition from pizzicato.lu. Together with conductor Marko Ivanović and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, he was awarded the Anděl Prize for their recording of works by Czech composer Miloslav Kabeláč.
In January of this year, he made his debut at the renowned Carnegie Hall in New York.
Miroslav Sekera teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) and the Iwami Ginzan Music Academy in Japan.
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photo © Daniel Havel
About the programme
The concert is over, the encores have faded, and the ovations have died down—but no one wants the night to end. Aftertalks offer a way to keep the experience alive. The music may stop, but the artists remain—now relaxed, with a coffee, mineral water, or even a beer in hand—ready to chat with Jiří Vejvoda, both as moderator and quick-witted interpreter.
For those not ready to head home, this is a rare chance to peek behind the scenes and get to know musicians beyond their almost otherworldly performances. A warm, sociable atmosphere makes Aftertalks the perfect encore to an unforgettable evening.
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St Agnes Convent
The Convent of St Agnes in the 'Na Františku' neighbourhood of Prague's Old Town is considered the first Gothic structure not only in Prague but in all of Bohemia. It was founded by King Wenceslas I in 1233–34 at the instigation of his sister, the Přemyslid princess Agnes of Bohemia, for the Order of Saint Clare which Agnes introduced into Bohemia and of which she was the first abbess. The convent was preceded by a hospital. The 'Poor Clares' originated as an offshoot of the Order of St Francis of Assisi, and the convent was at one time known as the Prague Assisi. Agnes was an outstanding figure in religious life of the thirteenth century. Besides this Clarist convent she also founded the only Czech religious order – the Hospital Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. She was canonized in 1989.