Pavel Šporcl with his blue violin in Pakistan
20.03.2023 / 12:35 | Aktualizováno: 29.05.2023 / 08:56
Violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl performed at concerts in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi in the beginning of March 2023. Combining his solo programme "Homage to Paganini" and improvisation with local artists, he presented European classical music together with a European-South Asian "fusion" to a great success.
Presentation of live European art at the highest level is not frequent in Pakistan, and four performances by a top Czech violinist between 2 and 7 March 2023 were exceptional events then. Pavel Šporcl introduced - through an informative commentary and then a virtuoso rendition - compositions by J.S. Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Fritz Kreisler, Nathan Milstein and his own one. During his tour of Pakistan, Šporcl followed up on the previous successful cooperation of Czech artists with the National College of Arts, and with a group of music students and his blue violin, he created and played several improvisations on local melodies and Dvořák's Humoresque at concerts in Lahore and Islamabad. Pavel Šporcl's trip and performances were made possible by the support of the honorary consuls of the Czech Republic in Karachi and Lahore and Dawn Bread company.