Kohout, Kryštof

No. 15

Country: Czech Republic

Date of birth: 25 July, 2000

Kryštof Kohout is studying with professor David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where he also studies baroque violin with Pavlo Beznosiuk and improvisation with David Dolan. He took masterclasses from Midori, Leonidas Kavakos, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pierre Amoyal, Josef Špaček and Gerhard Schulz, among others, and attended international courses including IMS Prussia Cove. He is a prize winner of the Kocian Violin Competition, Whitgift International Music Competition and the Muse International Music Competition, among others, as well as two-time laureate of the “Plzeňský Orfeus” prize. He is a founding member of the Fibonacci Quartet, with whom he has recently won the first prize at the 71st Royal Over-Seas League Competition for Strings & Keyboard Ensembles as well as at the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition held at Wigmore Hall. He made his solo debut with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eleven and has since performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and in the USA at such venues as the Barbican Centre, Konzerthaus Berlin and Musikverein in Vienna, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He plays on a 1780 violin by Vincenzo Panormo.