Michael Káčerková program:
Atsumi Fukuda program:
Michael Káčerková - she studied playing at the organ at the Conservatory in Prague (Jan Hora), and then at the Academy of Stage Arts in Prague (Jaroslav Tůma). She continued her education at the championship courses in Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholda in Leipzig (organs with Stefan Engels and the harpsichord with Tobias Schade). During her studies, she took part in many master courses conducted by outstanding teachers (Harald Vogel, Martin Sander, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Olivier Latry, Ludger Lohmann) and won awards in national and international performers' competitions.
Atsumi Fukuda - she was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1989. She had her first contact with music and playing at the phagist during additional classes, attending Matsudo Municipale Wanagaya Junior High School, where she gained the basic skills of playing on the phagist and participated in brass bands. She continued her musical education at high school and although it was a general school, and music classes were additional activities, playing the instrument was becoming more and more important to her. After obtaining a diploma in the field of Japanese literature at Ochanomisy University, she finally decided to change the field of education and start music studies.
In 2016, she moved to France to Conservatoire de Lille where she began studying in the field of playing in the class of professor Jean-Louis Ollé. Very good results allowed her to ultimately move to the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon, where she studied in the phagot class of the famous Professor Carlo Colombo and his assistant Olivier Massot. In addition, she also studied Congragot in the class Nicolas Cardoze and Baroque phagot at Laurent Le Chenadec. She started her professional career in 2021 as the first phagocist in Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary, after which she passed the exam in 2023 and started working as the first phagocist at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Fryderyk Chopin in Gdańsk where he works today.
At the same time, as a soloist and chamber artist, she participates in many projects with other orchestras. She is also a member of "Kappuso Duo", a duo she founded from Tatsushi Fujioka, a colleague from studies, and now the first trumpeter of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
