Michaela Fukačová is a Czech

Czech Republic

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 cellist. She took up the cello

Cello

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 at fourteen winning the Beethoven Cello Competition only two years later.Among her many top prizes is the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow

Moscow

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. She studied at the Brno Conservatory

Brno Conservatory

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, the Music Academy in Prague

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

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, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and with André Navarra

André Navarra

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, Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier

Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer.Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father Joseph and mother Marguerite , and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He studied the cello there with Gérard Hekking...

 and Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

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International prizes and awards:

• Prague Spring Cello competition 1984
• Tchaikovsky Cello competition, Moscow 1986
• Cello Competition in Scheveningen 1987
• Walter Naumburg Competition, New York 1989 "Leonard Rose price"
• Nordic Biennale, Denmark 1987
• The Danish music critics award, 1988
• Grammy nomination for the best classical album, Denmark 1990
• "Grammy Classic" award for the best soloist of the year, Prague 1994
• Honorary member of the Academy in Sorø, Denmark 1995
• Member of The Czech Council of Foreign Relations 1992
• The Gramophone award for the CD with music of Peter Lieberson , 2006
• Grammy 07 nomination for the best classical album of the year, USA

External links

• Official website
• http://www.rozhlas.cz/socr_eng/reviews/_zprava/685382
• http://www.youtube.com/user/miap1701?feature=mhw5#p/a/u/0/yJVeTKhMAbM