Petra Poláčková: CGC Guest Artist
We are excited to announce that our first guest artist for the CGC Summer School 2025 will be none other than Czech guitarist Petra Poláčková!
Petra teaches at several schools in Austria, including the prestigious Franz Schubert Music School in Fürstenfeld. She is an expert in the music of S.L. Weiss and 19th-century guitar music. We are excited to have her join our Guest Artist Faculty for this year’s Summer School!
Check out Petra performing a beautiful interpretation of Mertz’s Abendlied:
She has recorded a full-length album of J.K. Mertz with Bridge Records you can check out here.
Interested in attending the Summer School?
Would you like to take a lesson with Petra or hear her perform live in concert? We have some spots available for this year’s CGC Summer School. Go here to get more info about the CGC Summer School.
This is an absolutely beautiful piece and just superbly played! So excited to have Petra at summer school. Can’t wait to learn from her and hear more!
❤️❤️❤️Absolutely gorgeous!
Wow! What a virtuoso and what a wonderful piece by Mertz. Petra so effortlessly expressed all that intensely, poignant romanticism in this piece that seems to echo so much of Schumann’s work. Just great, bravo!!
A beautiful performance
Love the excellent performance! Absolutely brilliant
Beautiful. The Syrian guitarist Ayman Jarjour is another example of playing /performance with this depth of feeling.
Thank you for instroducing me to Petra’s music. That was so flowing I got lost in its beauty and watched it again and again.
Awesome, the sound effects from the cathedral bring out her performance even better. Her tremolo and vibrado in some of the measures are well noted. The accented notes and chords are well executed. Awesome piece. Joe Swimmer
Beautiful performance by Petra!
So beautiful, and so talented. I had to listen to it again.
Petra’s music speaks to me like no other. Her musical performances are sublime. I have been following her on youtube for several years. To her her playing live would be magic, to actually learn from her would be out of the world.