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COVtR: Paul Stevenson Oles, Sketch ofthe East Building Exterior, 1971,

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The Seventy-first Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,903rd Concert

Barbora Kolarova, violinist

Andrea Rousova, curator ofthe Collection ofAncient Art,

National Gallery in Prague

Presented in conjunction with

the Mutual Inspirations Festival 2012 — Milos Forman 

www.mutualinspirations.org

September 26, 2012

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Music and Art ofthe Czech New Wave

Alois Haba (1893-1973)

Suitefor Violin Solo (1955)

Klement Slavicky (1910-1999)

Partita for Violin Solo (1963)

Works of art will be shown and discussed by Ms. Rousova.

This concert has been made possible by support from the 

Embassy ofthe Czech Republic.

The Musician and Lecturer

BARBORA KOLAROVA

A native ofthe Czech Republic, Barbora Kolarova studied the violin at the

Pilsen Music Conservatory, Michigan State University, and the Curtis 

Institute of Music. She is currently a student of Ani Kavafian at the Yale

School of Music. A top prizewinner at the American String Teachers Association, Remember Enescu, and Telemann competitions, she is also a twotime winner ofthe Prague Junior Note Competition. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Czech National Theatre, Czech Philharmonic Chamber

and the Czech Radio Symphony orchestras, as well as Limoges and West

Bohemia symphony orchestras. Among the outstanding conductors with 

whom she has performed are Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and

Otto-Werner Mueller. Her colleagues in chamber music settings have included 

Roberto Diaz, Claude Frank, Jaime Laredo, and Pinchas Zukerman. A regular 

participant in the Bowdoin International, Colorado College, Meadowmount, 

and Pilsen Summer music festivals, Barbora Kolarova serves as assistant

director and director of chamber music at the Lake George Music Festival in 

upstate New York.

ANDREA ROUSOVA

Andrea Rousova is a graduate ofthe Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech

Republic, and the Charles University in Prague. Recipient of a Mellon/Clark 

Curatorial Fellowship as well as scholarships from the Alfred Bader Foundation, the Attingham Trust, and the Czech Science Foundation, Rousova

has been curator ofthe Collection ofAncient Art at the National Gallery in

Prague since 2002. A specialist in baroque painting in Bohemia and The 

Netherlands, genre painting, art collecting in the seventeenth and eighteenth

centuries, and secular iconography, Rousova has curated nine exhibitions at

the National Gallery in Prague, including Baroque in Bohemia (2008) and Karel

Skreta (1610-1674): His Work and Era (2010). Her published essays include

“Motives ofthe Musical Instruments from the Pictures in the National Gallery

in Prague” (2010), “Karel Skreta the Younger” (2011), and “In(credibility) of

Dance Recordings in the Baroque Period” (2011).

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