Czech National Philharmonic at Center for the Arts at George Mason University

Experience the first U.S. tour of the Czech National Philharmonic—one of the leading and oldest symphony orchestras in the Czech Republic—for a performance of beloved Eastern European masterpieces. Based in the historic capital of Moravia and founded in 1908, the orchestra was reconstituted after the Second World War in 1945. The Czech National Philharmonic is famous for performing the works of Dvoák, Smetana, Martin, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. For their Center for the Arts debut, Zsolt Hamar conducts a program featuring Smetana’s thrilling Overture to The Bartered Bride, as well as treasured works by Dvoák, including the brilliant Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104; Slavic Dances, Op. 46; Scherzo capriccioso; and the overture to the symphonic poem My Home.