Marie Hasoňová belongs to the remarkable young talents of the Czech music scene. Her most significant achievements include winning the main prize awarded by the Václav Hudeček Academy; thanks to this, Marie currently collaborates with V. Hudeček in solo projects, where she performs both with orchestras and with the great pianist Lukáš Klánský. She is a graduate of the Orchestral Academy of the Czech Philharmonic, with whom she attended many prestigious concerts and foreign tours. Marie is a successful interpreter of classical music above all, but thanks to her Moravian roots, she also has a warm relationship with folk music, which is her great passion and inspiration. She often performs as a member of various folklore ensembles.
At the Prague Conservatory, Marie was first a student of the current concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic, Jiří Vodička, and later graduated in the class of the excellent pedagogue Jiří Fišer. She is currently studying at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and at the same time, as a member of the piano Quasi Trio, she is a student at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (Johannes Meissl, Vida Vujic, Avedis Kouyoumdjian). She successfully participated in Czech and international competitions already during her studies at the Basic Art School in Mikulov, and later also at the conservatory. Marie is the winner of the 1st prize from the International Competition of Josef Muzika in Nové Paca, Archetti in Moravia in Kroměříž, Talents for Europe in Dolno Kubín and from the competition show of conservatories in Prague. She is also a laureate of the Kocian violin competition in Ústí nad Orlicí, the Telemann violin competition in Poznań and the B. Martinů Foundation competition in Prague. She is also the holder of other awards from the Kocian violin competition in Ústí nad Orlicí, the Telemann violin competition in Poznań and the B. Martinů Foundation competition in Prague. In 2021, together with the Romanian flutist Raluca Tihon, she won the online ‘Coffee Mask’ International Music Video Competition (violin and flute duo). It is organized by the Kasseler Kulturforum from Kassel, Germany, and the European-Asian Berlin ensemble Universal Korean Organic Ensemble – Viktoria & Virtuosi, led by violinist Viktoria Elisabeth Kaunzner. The prestigious music magazine The Strad also mentioned this success in its March issue.
Marie also took part in master classes of prestigious world violinists and pedagogues, such as Ray Chen, Christian Tetzlaff, Renaud Capuçon, Seppo Tukiainen, Josef Špaček, Václav Hudeček, Ivan Ženatý, Zdeněk Gola and others. In 2016, she participated in the Rotary Youth Exchange Summer Music Camp master classes in San Diego (USA).
As a soloist, she collaborated with a number of renowned orchestras – the Brno Philharmonic, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra of Mariánské Lázně, the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, Barocco semper giovanne, Praga Sinfonietta, Warchal Ensemble, etc. In 2016, she premiered the Violin Concerto No. 2 by the Czech composer Pavel Trojan. He also often collaborates with a number of symphonic and chamber ensembles as an external member.
Marie is also actively engaged in informed historical interpretation of baroque music. In 2007-2018, she regularly participated in the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (Petr Zejfart, Dagmar Zárubová, Jiří Sycha, Marek Štryncl). She is also occasionally invited to collaborate with bodies such as Collegium Marianum or Musica Florea.
Since 2018, Marie has been a member of a piano trio with the innovative name Quasi trio, which has been active on the cultural scene since 2014. In addition to the already mentioned study at MDW University in Vienna, the ensemble participated in ISA summer courses in Austria and is also an aspirant of the European Chamber Music Academy. thanks to which he takes international interpretation courses all over Europe. The quasi trio regularly performs concerts both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Its members also work together as a quasi-duo (duo of all three instrument combinations), for example, Marie together with cellist Judita Škodová won the award for the best performance of B. Martinů’s composition at the ISA 2019 summer academy, and in the same year they also won the 2nd prize and the title of laureate at the competition of the B. Martinů Foundation in Prague.
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