Eugen Prochac - Reflections (2024)

The famous opus In Croce by Sofii Gubajdullina is already almost a cult work. Another world is brought by the music of another world-famous author, Isang Yun, as well as the German author Helmut Degen. Currently, the works of Yukk Tiensuu, who regularly maps the possibilities of the accordion and its ever-developing possibilities, are very popular. The Dominant Chord by Petr Zagar contains minimalist features, while the rhythmic games are typical of the Music of Ilya Zeljenko.

Ana Vyparinová Krsmanović comes from Belgrade (Serbia). She completed her primary and secondary music education in Belgrade, in the class of prof. Biljany Radosavljević, at the High School of Music "Dr. V. Vučković". During her studies, she participated in many national and international competitions. She studied the accordion at the VŠMU in Bratislava in the class of prof. Boris Lenk. During this period, she began collaborating with several performers in chamber music (flute, oboe, piano, singing, etc.), with whom she premiered several works by Slovak composers (J. Kmiťová, B. Milaković, M. Piaček, etc.). In 2005, she recorded the solo song Ľ. Chekovska's "Fragments and Elegies". She completed her doctoral studies at VŠMU on the topic "Chamber composition of European provenance for accordion and piano" in the class of doc. Jordana Palovičová. Since 2017, he has been actively collaborating with the pianist Zuzana Zamborská, with whom he performs in Slovakia and abroad. The duo specializes in works by contemporary authors for accordion and piano (U. Rojko, E. Iršai and others). In 2019, they premiered the works of the composers Petr Machajdik and Kevin May in Bratislava and Belgrade, and in 2021 they premiered the work of the Czech author Jan Meisl. She is an active member of the Radošinsk Naive Theater as part of the theater performance Male Department.

Eugen Prochác is a pupil of the Bratislava Conservatory in the class of Juraj Fazekaš. He continued his studies at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts under the direction of Jozef Chuchr. He perfected his art with such masters as Daniel Šafran, Erling Blondal Bengtsson, Michail Chomicer, or Angelica May. He is the absolute winner of the Premio Valentino Bucchi international competition in Rome in 1990. He performed in more than 40 countries on four continents, recorded many CDs for domestic and foreign publishers, performed with world-famous personalities such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Giovanni Sollima, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett, Ken Hensley... Since 1990 he has been teaching at the College of Performing Arts in Bratislava, he has led master classes in Portugal, France, Austria, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam. He is the artistic director of the Fine Music Festival in Banská Štiavnica. "Eugen Prochác is currently among the top Slovak performers of the middle generation. From the beginning of his solo career, his performances were characterized by precise technical mastery and thoughtful musical completion of the presented works. Thanks to his mastery of interpretation, he received a number of invitations to perform not only at home, but also abroad. In the nineties of the last century, he successfully worked as a solo cellist and teacher in Portugal." (Dictionary of Slovak Concert Art II., Hudobné centrum, Bratislava 2004, pp. 129-132).