Biography

Ludmila Peterková, the most important Czech clarinettist of the young generation, has already performed in countries all over Europe, and appeared at home in prestigious events such as the concert for the meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Prague (with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy).

She enjoys playing contemporary classical music, and won the Classic 94 Prize for her premiere of a new concerto Clarinettino by O. Kukal. She is a founder member of the successful ensemble In modo camerale and the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, with whom she has worked for four years as solo clarinettist.

Since 2000, she has had an exclusive contract with the recording company Supraphon. Her most recent CD won the prestigious Harmonie Prize for best recording of the year.

She has played with all the Czech orchestras, the important conductors Jiří Bělohlávek, Gerd Albrecht and the above-mentioned Vladimír Ashkenazy, the Mezzo-Soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Elisabeth Leonská. Her partners have been the Panochovo kvarteto, the Škampovo kvarteto and the Tokyo String Quartet. She is also accompanied by the Czech pianist of Latvian descent Irina Kondratěnko at her recitals.

From the age of 27, she has been a clarinet professor at the Prague Conservatory, where she herself had previously studied. She continued at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) and then in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur.

Apart from the clarinet she works as a moderator, presenting the regular monthly "Terra musica" for Czech Television.

Her hobbies include her two daughters, Zuzanka and Evička, and her husband Vladimír.