Filip Jaro, double bassist and a member of the Slovak Philharmonic. He has participated in several international double bass competitions during his studies, where he placed at the top level. In 2007, he was awarded 1st place and the Audience Award at the International Double Bass Competition in Brno by the world's leading double bass player Catalin Rotaru. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and later during the doctoral studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His thesis about Concertant works of J. M. Sperger lead him to continuous promotion of this significant double bass player heritage.
He took master classes with professor Thomas Lom in Stuttgart and he also participated at several International Meetings of Bassists in Brno, where he worked under the leadership of such personalities as M. Gajdoš, M. Jelínek, J. Hudec, J. Valenta, W. Guttler and C. Rotaru. He worked with J. Niederhammer on master classes in Vienna.
In 2007 – 2018, he was a member of the Slovak National Theatre Orchestra, where he held the position of deputy head and, in 2018, the position of head player of the double bass group. With active concert activity since 2009, he promotes the double bass as a virtuoso instrument in a number of domestic and foreign recitals, in collaboration with orchestras and in the chamber Sperger duo with his wife, pianist Xénia Jarová. In the years 2016 – 2024, he recorded 6 CD albums dedicated to the repertoire for solo double bass, which also containmany world and Slovak premieres, especially exposed concert compositions of the most important Czech romantic double bass virtuosos (Kuchynka, Láska, Simandl, Černý, Geissel).Sem vlož úryvok z Wordu, PDF alebo HTML!
3rd Round / Piano Quintets
11th J. N. Hummel International Piano Competition, 3rd round, piano quintets.
