DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Music and the Visual World, including contributions from Celia Craig, Halida Dinova and Yekaterina Lebedeva.
ARTICLES BEING VIEWED NOW:
- Firedove - English organist Anna Lapwood's new album was recorded in a Norwegian cathedral
- A Worthy Captain - Peter King marks BBC presenter Petroc Trelawny's move from dawn to twilight
- France
- United Kingdom
- Spotlight. Enchantingly Luminous - Gerald Fenech strongly recommends Raphaël Pichon's new recording of J S Bach's B minor Mass
German-born Slovak soprano Patricia Janečková was born on 18 June 1998 in Münchberg, Bavaria, and her Slovak parents then moved to Ostrava in Czechia, where she studied voice at the Janáček Conservatory.
She gave a public performance with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra at the Antonín Dvořák Theatre in Ostrava, then won two competitions, the second of which, the 2014 Concorso Internazionale di Musica Sacra in Rome, launched her professional career, performing at the Rudolfinum in Prague and at the Janáček Music Festival in Ostrava.
Patricia Janečková announced in February 2022 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and she died on 1 October 2023, aged only twenty-five.