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Mr. Karl铆膷ek鈥檚 piano playing has been described as 鈥渋nspiring, rich, sensitive, stylistically taut and arresting, precise, crisp, brilliantly controlled, wonderfully colorful and always imaginative.鈥� He performs and lectures regularly in the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, U.S.A. and Japan. Recent United States tour consisted of fifteen concerts in fourteen days and included performances in Stanford University, New York University and Carnegie Hall. Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k鈥檚 piano concerto Op. 33 is scheduled for a tour in the Czech Republic in 2013.

Aside from establishing his reputation as a dynamic promoter of Czech music, Mr. Karl铆膷ek鈥檚 large solo and chamber music repertoire includes standard and contemporary works: one of his last projects was a CD of complete piano & cello and piano works by a young Canadian composer Andrew Yin Svoboda (1977-2004). Mr. Karl铆膷ek introduced world premiere of F茅lix Fr茅d茅ric Baril鈥檚 piano concerto 顿茅惫颈补迟颈辞苍蝉, Martin Matalon鈥檚 Las siete Vidas de un Gato as a North-American premiere and a world premiere of Tekeni-Ahsen by Denys Bouliane. In 2008 he and a Japanese violinist Mana Shiraishi established Duo Ventapane that instantly embarked on tours of Europe and Japan receiving praise and admiration: 鈥淒uo Ventapane is an event to experience鈥︹�滿r. Karl铆膷ek is also a founder of Creo Trio that enjoys and promotes repertoire written for flute, violin and piano.

Mr. Karl铆膷ek gathered awards and prizes from several competitions such as The Best Interpretation of the Czech Contemporary Music Piece Prize from the International Piano Competition in Karlovy Vary, 2nd Prize and Bed艡ich Smetana Prize from the Bed艡ich Smetana International Piano Competition, 1st Prize, the title of an Absolute Winner and Ferenc Liszt Prize from the South Bohemian International Piano Competition, 1st Prize, Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek Prize, B茅la Bart贸k Prize and Bohuslav Martin暖 Prize from the Prague-Vienna-Budapest International Summer Academy Competition and Bed艡ich Smetana Award and B茅la Bart贸k Award from the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition.

Martin Karl铆膷ek studied at the Academy of Music in Prague (B.Mus, M.Mus), Utrecht Academy of the Arts in Holland and at 平特五不中 in Montreal in Canada (M.Mus, D.Mus). Among his teachers were K. Hashimoto, A. Kuerti, K. Bilinsk谩, M. Langer and I. Moravec. Presently, he teaches piano at the Schulich School of Music of 平特五不中.