Michaela Fukačová

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Michaela Fukačová (born 27 March 1959) is a Czech cellist. She took up the cello aged 14,^[1] and won the Beethoven Cello Competition two years later. She is a past winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.^[1] She studied at the Brno Conservatory,^[1] the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) under Saša Večtomov,^[1] the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and with André Navarra, Paul Tortelier and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Awards and prizes[]

• Prague Spring Cello competition 1984
• Tchaikovsky Cello competition, Moscow 1986
• Cello Competition in Scheveningen 1987
• Walter Naumburg Competition, New York 1989 "Leonard Rose price"
• Nordic Biennale, Denmark 1987
• The Danish music critics award, 1988
• Grammy nomination for the best classical album, Denmark 1990
• "Grammy Classic" award for the best soloist of the year, Prague 1994
• Honorary member of the Academy in Sorø, Denmark 1995
• Member of The Czech Council of Foreign Relations 1992
• The Gramophone award for the CD with music of Peter Lieberson, 2006
• Grammy 07 nomination for the best classical album of the year, USA

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• http://www.rozhlas.cz/socr_eng/reviews/_zprava/685382
• https://www.youtube.com/user/miap1701?feature=mhw5#p/a/u/0/yJVeTKhMAbM