Václav Hudeček Academy Laureates

David Kubita (*2004) is currently a student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, studying in the class of Pavel Kudelásek. He comes from a musical family, and his exceptional talent was evident from a very early age.

In 2015, he was admitted to the Grammar and Music School of the Capital City of Prague, where he studied in the class of Radka Beranová. During his studies there, he received numerous awards at prestigious competitions, including the Josef Micka Competition, the Josef Muzika Competition, and the Kocian Violin Competition. He has performed repeatedly with various orchestras; however, a major milestone was a solo performance in the concert series Young Talents to Josef Suk at the Municipal House in Prague, accompanied by the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK under the baton of chief conductor Tomáš Brauner (2023). After eight years of study at the Grammar and Music School of Prague, he was admitted to the Prague Conservatory, where he studied in the class of Jiří Vodička. During his period, he further expanded his artistic experience through a solo performance of Shostakovich’s Violin concerto no. 2 with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he also concluded this two-year conservatory program.

David Kubita frequently performs with his mother, harpist Jana Boušková, and has appeared with her in concert in Hong Kong. He regularly participates in masterclasses led by Jiří Fišer, Jakub Fišer, Štěpán Ježek, and Pavel Kudelásek. In 2025, he was awarded Second Prize at the Václav Hudeček Master Academy. In addition, he had the exceptional opportunity to collaborate with the world-renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov.

As an orchestral musician, he regularly collaborates with leading professional symphony and chamber orchestras, including the Czech Philharmonic, PKF - Prague Philharmonia, Talich Chamber Orchestra, and the Haydn Ensemble. Since 2025, he has been a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Academy program, and one year later he joined the Chamber Music Academy program.

David Kubita plays the violin made by Miroslav Komár (2022).

source: David Kubita

Jan Novák is a student at the Prague Conservatory in the class of Prof. Jiří Fišer. He began studying the violin at the age of six at the Mladá Boleslav Music School.

He is a laureate of the Prague Spring International Music Competition, where he won second prize in strong international competition and received several additional awards. He is also a laureate of numerous junior competitions and regularly participates in masterclasses given by leading international artists, including Gil Shaham and Leonidas Kavakos. Jan Novák has repeatedly attended the Václav Hudeček Master Academy in Luhačovice, where he became the overall winner in 2023.

As a soloist, he has performed with Prague Philharmonia, South Bohemian Philharmonic, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mariánské Lázně, and North Czech Philharmonic Teplice. He regularly collaborates with the ensemble Barocco sempre giovane and has appeared at major music festivals, including the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival and the Svátky hudby (Music Celebrations) Festival in Prague. His chamber and concert partners include pianist Marek Kozák and violinist Václav Hudeček. Jan Novák plays a violin by František Kříž made in 1934.

source: Jan Novák

Lukáš Klánský is a leading Czech pianist and a highly sought-after soloist and chamber musician. He plays in the Lobkowicz Trio with Jan Mráček and Ivan Vokáč. The Trio won first prize and the audience prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach in 2014. Lukáš Klánský has appeared at the most prestigious music festivals in the Czech Republic, including the Prague Spring, Dvořák Prague Festival, Leoš Janáček International Music Festival, St. Wenceslas Music Festival,  Václav Hudeček Music Festival, Antonín Dvořák Festival, Talich’s Beroun, Treasures of the Broumov Region and Drivers of Resonance, and has also performed extensively on international stages. He has appeared with Jan Mráček, concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic, at the Ankara International Music Festival, Festival Lago Maggiore Musica, Kammermusik um halb acht in Basel, and the Nafplio Festival, as well as at Berlin’s Konzerthaus in January 2020, and on a concert tour of China in autumn 2023.

In 2022, Rubicon Classics released a CD featuring the Lobkowicz Trio performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Voříšek’s Grand Rondo with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava and conductor Petr Popelka. Lukáš Klánský collaborates with many outstanding artists, including Václav Hudeček, Jan Mráček, Shizuka Ishikawa, Leoš Čepický, Michal Kaňka, Jana Boušková, Jan Ostrý, Bomsori Kim, Ofer Canetti and Zuzana Marková.

In 2018, he won second prize at the Hans von Bülow Competition in the category of conducting from the piano, a discipline to which he has devoted increasing attention in recent years. He recorded Mozart’s Kammerkonzerte with the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic for Czech Television Art, appearing as both soloist and conductor.

He has performed with orchestras including the PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mariánské Lázně and Meininger Court Orchestra, working with conductors such as Libor Pešek, István Dénes, Petr Vronský, Marko Ivanović and Marek Šedivý. He has won awards in competitions including Beethoven’s Hradec (2007), the International Rotary Piano Competition (2012) and the Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition (2013).

Lukáš Klánský has performed throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as in Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, the United States, China, Japan and South Africa. He has recorded for Praga Digitals, Radioservis, Gramola, Naxos, Octavia Records and Rubicon Classics.

He began playing the piano at the age of five under the guidance of Růžena Učňová at the Music School of the City of Prague. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire with Professor Eva Boguniová and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of his father, Professor Ivan Klánský. He earned his doctorate at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with a thesis on the piano works of Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek, whose music he promotes. He later studied conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Professor Leoš Svárovský and Associate Professor Tomáš Koutník.

Lukáš Klánský teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he earned his habilitation in 2023, as well as at the Prague Conservatoire and at the Grammar and Music School of the City of Prague. He regularly lectures at Piano Saturdays in Brno and the Gradus ad Parnassum Festival in Ostrava. Through the Erasmus programme, he has taught at the Conservatorio Superior de Música da Coruña and at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. From 2022 to 2023, he was a lecturer at the Geneva International String Academy. He has also served as a pianist at the Václav Hudeček Academy in Luhačovice since 2010, and teaches at summer piano courses in Mikulov.

source: Lukáš Klánský