A family string quartet founded by Vit Polášek and his wife Lu Yan, both professional members of the Macau Orchestra, gave a special and intimate concert at the Rui Cunha Foundation (FRC) Gallery in the city centre recently.
The Vit Polášek’s Family Strings Quartet comprises two violins, a viola and a cello, played by the duo and their two sons, Vit and Lukas.
Organised by the foundation, the “Lullabies from Around the World” concert played 12 traditional children’s songs and lullabies from nine places across the globe: Portugal, France, Germany, Romania, Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, Japan and China – also featuring seven local voices.
“We have chosen lullabies from all around the world and asked our friends of any ages who live in Macau to sing with us,” said Polášek. “Living in Macau for over 20 years and missing my own country’s tradition, I realised that, like myself, many expats feel the same kind of nostalgia.”
He added, “What could be a better way for a musician to fulfil those longings that through songs that we have heard from our parents or grandparents during our childhood, the lullabies?”
Czech Republic-born Polášek graduated from the Conservatory of P.J. Vejvanovsky in Kroměříž and continued to study violin at the Janáček Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Brno (Czech Republic) and at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar (Germany).
He worked at the České Budějovice Philharmonic Orchestra, the Talich Chamber Orchestra in Prague and the Olomouc Philharmonic Orchestra of Moravia (Czech Republic), and is now Second Principal Violin of the Macao Orchestra, in addition to teaching at the Macau Conservatory and holding regular masterclasses around the world. (Gilbert Humphrey)
Photos: Good News Macau/Gilbert Humphrey
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