The magic of the harp
Harpist Jana Boušková and soprano Silke Evers give concert at the Weimar Master Classes
The 65th Weimar Master Classes invite you to a particularly enchanting evening: guest professors Jana Boušková (harp) and Silke Evers (soprano) will give a joint concert on Tuesday, 29 July at 7:30 p.m. in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. Pianist Won Choi will accompany on the concert grand piano. Tickets are available for £15 (concessions £10) from the Weimar Tourist Information Office and at the box office.
The entertaining and musically enchanting programme ranges from an aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Arnold Schönberg's Brettl-Lieder. The programme also includes beautiful songs by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, an excerpt from Beethoven's ‘Moonlight Sonata’ for solo harp and a cornucopia of works from the French repertoire. Songs by Claude Debussy, Léo Delibes, Ernest Chausson and Gabriel Fauré will be accompanied by the harp.
The lyrical soprano Silke Evers has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg since 2003, where she has excelled in a variety of roles such as Mozart's Donna Anna, Fiordiligi and Ilia, but also Michaela (Carmen), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin) and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), as well as leading roles in world premieres.
During this time, she has made guest appearances at various opera houses in Bonn, Münster, Meiningen, Kassel, Augsburg and Chemnitz. She has also sung at the Salzburg Festival and has enjoyed great success on numerous occasions at the Berlin State Opera.
She has won many awards and can be heard in major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonic and the Tonhalle Zurich. Silke Evers is in demand not only as a stylistically confident interpreter of Baroque music, but also in the field of new and contemporary music.
Here she has performed with renowned ensembles and conductors such as Ingo Metzmacher, Roberto Spano and Peter Hirsch, the Ensemble Modern and the SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg. Her unusual song programmes, which she presents in moderated recitals and CD recordings, have also attracted considerable attention.
Jana Boušková, born in Prague (Czech Republic), has participated in a total of eight harp competitions in the USA, Israel, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, winning first prize five times, including the prestigious gold medal at the US International Harp Competition in 1992. Jana Boušková has been principal harpist of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005.
She is regularly invited to participate in world-renowned harp congresses and symposia, serves as a juror at international harp competitions and gives masterclasses worldwide. She also performs as a soloist with leading orchestras and in solo recitals in the most prestigious concert halls.
In addition to her solo career, Jana Boušková is also active as a teacher: from 1993 to 2012 at the Conservatory in Prague, from 2005 to 2020 at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, since 2007 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and since 2019 as a professor at the renowned Royal College of Music in London.
She is currently patron of the Monastery Music Festival and the Cancioneta Praga choir. Jana Boušková has recorded 50 CDs during her career. Around two dozen compositions have been written especially for her. She has also transcribed works by Czech composers. These works were released on her solo CD My Homeland by Supraphon in 2021.
[28 July 2025]