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David Kalhous is increasingly gaining recognition in Europe and the United States for his elegant musicianship, brilliant pianism, probing
intelligence, and adventurous programming. With wide-ranging repertoire spanning three centuries, he is equally at home with music of
Scarlatti and Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, and Ligeti and Feldman. In demand both as soloist and chamber musician, David Kalhous has
recently performed Beethoven's Third and Fifth Piano Concerti with the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared both as soloist
and chamber musician at Northwestern University in Chicago, Czech Radio's Studio Live Concert Series, Bertramka Concert Series in Prague,
and Beethoven Festival in North Bohemia. He attended the Gilmore Keyboard Festival as a Gilmore Fellow. He has appeared this season as
a soloist with Prague Philharmonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra and Moravian Philharmonic. David Kalhous's debut solo recital at the Prague
Spring Festival received critical acclaim, and he has been invited to present solo recitals at Prague Symphony Orchestra's World Piano
Literature recital series, Bargemusic in New York City, Konvergence New Music Series, International Music Festival Ceský Krumlov
and the Czech Center in Brussels, to name a few. His collaborations with orchestras next season will include a performance of Brahms'
D Minor concerto with the North Bohemia Symphony Orchestra.
David Kalhous has also appeared as a soloist with the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice, West-Bohemia Symphony
Orchestra, Musici de Praga among others and has worked with such conductors as Libor Pešek, Eli Jaffe, Leoš Svárovský,
Stanislav Vavrínek and Marián Valcuha. He has also made various recordings for the Czech Radio and Television. In addition,
David Kalhous was the author and host of a series of radio programs devoted to music for piano and its interpretation that were produced and
broadcast by the radio station Classic FM in Prague. Czech Television's Channel 2 showed a documentary film about David Kalhous, and his
new CD featuring works by Beethoven, Schumann, Janácek, and Kurtág will be released this year.
David Kalhous's interest in new music has resulted in close collaboration with many European and American composers who have written works
expressly for him. He has performed with and under the auspices of the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble (György
Ligeti Memorial Concert, Steve Reich Celebration, American premiere of Peter Ablinger's 6 Linien), and presented numerous contemporary music
recitals in New York, Chicago, and several European cities. He was the first pianist to present recently the first book of György
Ligeti's piano Études and Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus in Prague. David Kalhous is cooperating on several projects with
Konvergence Composers Association in Prague and with SoundField, a Philadelphia-based new and experimental music organization.
David Kalhous began his professional studies at the Prague Conservatory as a student of Jaroslav Cermák. His other teachers
included Paul Badura-Skoda at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Emil Leichner at the Academy of Performing
Arts in Prague, Victor Derevianko at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, David Northington at the University of Tennessee, and Peter Frankl
at the Yale University School of Music. David Kalhous has attended various master-classes in Europe, Israel, and the United States, studying
with artists including Pnina Salzman, Earl Wild, Claude Frank, Paul Lewis, James Tocco, Alexander Jenner, Nelly Akopian, Alexander Lonquich,
and Jon Nakamatsu. He also worked with Jerome Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He is currently living in New York
while completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, working with Ursula Oppens.
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