The Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, formerly the Pilsen Radio Orchestra, is an ensemble with a solid tradition and reputation and is requested on stages in the Czech Republic and abroad. The orchestra takes numerous foreign tours and performs at prestigious venues in Europe and the United States. Let us mention the halls of Gasteig in Munich, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Stadthalle in Vienna, the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zürich or Rudolfinum and O2 Arena in Prague. In August 2017, they performed in the new hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

In recent seasons, for example the following performer with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra: Tai Murray, Pascal Rogé, Lilya Zilberstein, Juliane Banse, Sergej Nakarjakov, Anne Queffélec, Jeremy Menuhin, Gautier Capucon. Ivan Ženatý and Igor Ardašev. In the past seasons, the dramaturgy included soloists such as Michaela Fukačová, Julian Pflugmann, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, and Gabriela Demeterová. In the past, these have also included Ramon Vargas, Montserrat Caballé and also a number of outstanding conductors such as sir Charles Mackerras, Václav Talich, Jiří Bělohlávek, and Libor Pešek.

The Orchestra regularly collaborates with Czech Radio and hence follows the tradition of the years 1946 - 1993 (the Pilsen Radio Orchestra). For other labels, they have recently filmed the opera Charity Day by Bohuslav Martinů, which has won several prestigious wards, Rhapsody of Antonín Dvořák or the complete works for violoncello and orchestra by Bohuslav Martinů (Petr Nouzovský & Tomáš Brauner), which was published by Dabringhaus und Grimm and was awarded the Classic Prague Award 2017 in the recording of the year category. The Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra also holds the City of Pilsen Arts Award for the years of 2014 and 2015 in the category of outstanding cultural event of the year, specifically for the concert connected with the Year of Czech Music 2014 held in the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Pilsen, during which it performer the Requiem by Antonín Dvořák, and for the Artist and Totalitarianism project. In 2017, the conductor of the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra Tomáš Brauner was awarded the City of Pilsen Arts Award for outstanding artistic achievement for artists over 30 years, it was for the production of Dvořák’s oratorio Stabat Mater with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno. Ronald Zollman replaced Tomáš Brauner in the position of the principal conductor in September 2018, Chuhei Iwasaki is the proncipal conductor from September 2021.

The Pilsen Philharmonic participated significantly in the realization of the project Pilsen – European Capital of Culture in 2015. Since 2013, it has been the organizer of the international interdisciplinary Smetana Days Festival, and also the organizer of the chamber series Circle  of Music  Friends since 2020. The project Chance for Young Musicians has been aimed at talented youth since the 2019/2020 season and the Phl Harmonic Children´s Club for the youngest audience was opened in that season as well.

The actor Svatopluk Schuller (1964) is a graduate of the Theatre Faculty of Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts (1986) in the field of stage acting.

Besides full-time theatrical engagements in Most (1986‒1995) and with Prague’s ABC Theatre (1995‒2008), he has also performed on the stages of the Karlín Musical Theatre, the National Theatre, the Rubín Theatre, the Dvořák Theatre in Příbram, and the Montmartre Theatre. Last but not least, he is also the founder of Prague’s Litera Theatre (2008), which continued the legacy of the defunct Lyry Pragensis, where he had worked previously for several years.

He has appeared in many Czech films and television series. At present, he is engaged mainly as a voice actor and works with a microphone. He has dubbed many roles, and he has lent his voice to many characters in foreign films and series. His commentary can be heard in many documentary films. He also performs regularly on Czech Radio.

Since 2015 he has been collaborating regularly with the Pilsen Philharmonic on their children’s programmes, providing verbal commentary for their programmes etc. He is increasingly involved with combinations of words and music such as Tomáš Ille’s melodrama The Proverbs of Solomon with the Czech Radio Trio.

The actor and singer Zbyněk Fric got his start at the Horácko Theatre in Jihlava, then he studied at the Academy of Performing Arts for two years and began performing in musicals. He has many big roles in musicals to his credit at theatres in Prague and elsewhere including Jesus Christ Superstar, Dracula, Rent, Hello, Dolly!, Grease, Cleopatra, The Three Musketeers, Angelika, Lucrezia Borgia, Edith Piaf ‒ The Sparrow from the Suburbs, Golem, Kudykam, A Walk Worthwhile (directed by Miloš Forman), Mydlář the Executioner, Romeo and Juliet, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Kladno Municipal Theatre), and Next to Normal at the Na Prádle Theatre.

He is also an actor in plays (Litera Theatre, Lyra Pragensis, National Theatre, ABC Theatre – The Fighter, Hold Me Fast, Love Me Slow, Kalich Theatre ‒ Splašené nůžky, Drama Club ‒ Macbeth). His film and television credits include The Last Transport, The Land Gone Wild, Rodinná pouta, Velmi křehké vztahy, Poslední sezóna, Expozitura, and Královský slib.

At the Kalich Theatre he has performed in the musicals Desire, White Dalmatian, Láska naruby, Osmý světadíl, Tajemství, Atlantida, Srdcový král, and he is still appearing in The Jungle Book, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Voda a krev nad vodou, and the comedy Splašené nůžky.

A scriptwriter, dramaturge, and moderator, from 2003 to 2015 he was the main author and artistic director for the H&P experimental theatre in Zlín. Since 2000 he has been working as an author and protagonist in a series of concerts for youth and adults with the F Major Jazz Band.

Since 2017 he has been working regularly with the Pilsen Philharmonic on creating music drama programmes for children, youth, and families. For these projects, he collaborates as a co-author with the composer Tomáš Ille.

More of his programmes on the topics of classical music and the symphony orchestra have been performed by the North Bohemia Philharmonic in Teplice and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic in Zlín, and negotiations are ongoing with the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc.

During his 30 years of activity in culture, the arts, and the media, he has created and realised dozens of one-off and long-term projects. He has been working in the performing arts, mainly in the areas of music, literature, and theatre. He has been the author or co-author of several publications, plays, television programmes, and screenplays.

He has appeared on stage all around the Czech Republic in the role of a moderator.

Music composer and arranger. He studied at the Conservatoire in Kroměříž and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Music and Dance Faculty). His activities cover a broad spectrum. He has composed music for concerts, movies, the theatre stage and for didactic purposes. In addition, he has also composed arrangements and instrumentations. His compositions and adaptations are part of the repertoire of many Czech and foreign orchestras and performers (the Czech Philharmonic; the Berlin Philharmonic; the Vienna Philharmonic; the New York Philharmonic; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; the Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra; the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra; the South Bohemia Philharmonic; Virtuosi di basso of the Czech Philharmonic; the Czech Philharmonic Quartet, and others).

His works have been published by a number of publishers (Bärenreiter; Schott Music; Universal Edition). A recording of the Symphonic Suite from the opera Jenůfa, which he wrote based on the original opera by Leoš Janáček together with conductor Manfred Honeck and which was recorded by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2015.