Autographed one sheet heavy stock recital and Elder String Quartet program, June 222, 1959, University of Adelaide, New Zealand. Solo and quartet first violinist Ladislav Jasek has signed.
Music by Vranicky, Janacek and Schubert.
Ladislav Jásek (1929 - ) Czech-Australian violinist
He began his violin studies at the age of 6 with Jan Dvorský. He spent the next three years with Bedřich Voldan and then an additional three years with Jindřich Feld (until 1948). He studied piano with L. Roubalová, later with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová.
He won prizes in the Youth Creativity Competition and 3rd prize in the Prague Kubelík Competition (1946) and began a very successful concert career. He also competed internationally: honorable mention and title of laureate in the Henri Wieniawski Competition in Poznan (1952), concert tour of Bulgaria (1954), 5th prize and laureate title Thibaud (1955), 2nd. prize and laureate title in the Prague Slavík and Frantisek Ondříček competition (1956), gold medal in the London Flesch competition (1956), tours of East Germany, England, Berlin (1957), two tours of Hungary and also Brussels, Warsaw and other Polish cities (1958). Particularly important was his collaboration with pianist Josef Hala, with whom in 1959 he toured Australia, India and Japan (there were 29 concerts, 12 in Tokyo, January and February 1959) and in 1962 again in Japan. At that time he worked for three years in Australia as a teacher of violin playing at the University of Elder in Adelaide (from March 1, 1959 to 1962), where he performed solo and radio and also performed in the quartets and trios and went to other Australian cities. The University of Adelaide organized a festival of Czech music as a result of the tours. In his repertoire, Jásek plays concertos by Dvořák, Brahms, Bruch, Sibelius and others.
In 1962 he toured Japan for several months with Joseph Hala; during this time he worked at the Kunitachi Academy in Tokyo. He then returned to Czechoslovakia for a short time, where he was a soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (1963-66). He spent the next three years in Australia again as a professor at the Brisbane Conservatory (1966-69). In 1969 he moved to the University of Auckland, New Zealand. At that time he completed a study and concert tour of Europe, the United States and Hong Kong. In 1973 he returned to Australia, where he performed at the opening ceremony of Sydney Opera House with solo meditation from Thais Julius Massenet's opera accompanied by the orchestra. For the next ten years (1973-83) he was a soloist and concert master of the Sydney Opera House. Since 1983 he has been a concert master of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and at the same time taught at the Conservatory.
As far as his personal life is concerned, he married Australian Anthea Hamilton. He brought her to Prague and his son Richard was born here. But in 1966 he moved with his family to Australia, where he applied for Australian citizenship in the same year. He still lives in Australia in Adelaide today.
He was a sought-after soloist, but also a chamber musician, and made a number of recordings for both Czechoslovak and foreign record companies. His art is preserved on gramophone records, he recorded for example a feature recital with Josef Hala, Bořkovec Sonata No. 2 with Alfréd Holeček, a violin concert of Vladimír Sommer with the Czech Philharmonic and other works.
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