International Competition of Vlastimil Lejsek
for Piano Duos
With pleasure, we announce that the 3rd edition of the Vlastimil Lejsek International Competition for Piano Duos of Children and Youth will take place on:
13th to 17th November 2025.
Registration for the competition will open at the beginning of 2025. We look forward to your participation!
Since 2015
The Vlastimil Lejsek International Competition (hereafter referred to as MSVL) for Piano Duos is intended for children and youth from elementary art schools, music high schools, conservatories, and academies in the Czech Republic and abroad, aged 6 to 21 years.
The main goal of this competition is to support not only composers from Brno and young musical talents but also to promote the city of Brno itself, both within the Czech Republic and beyond its borders.
MSVL is seen as a preparatory competition for the International Schubert Piano Duo Competition, founded by the Lejsek couple in 1978, which remains unique worldwide to this day.
The competition rules were written by Vlastimil Lejsek and Ema Jedlička Gogová.
Since 2015
The first year of the competition took place on November 13, 2015 at the Brno Conservatory under the auspices of the Mayor of Brno, Ing. Petr Vokřál. The newly established competition bears the name of the prominent Brno composer, pianist and teacher Vlastimil Lejek, a pioneer of the piano duo in the Czech environment.
The competition was attended by 13 piano duos from six countries – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine, Vietnam and Lebanon. The main aim of the competition is to support young pianists in playing in four-hand and two-piano ensembles. The competition was divided into two groups – students of primary and private music schools (group A) and students of conservatories and music academies (group B). Each pair of competitors included at least one composition by Vlastimil Lejesek in their program.
The competition was held in one round and culminated in a gala concert of the winners at Villa Tugendhat. The international jury was led by Ida Černecká and included Ayami Ikeba, Helena Suchárová Weiser, Lestari Scholtes and Eugen Jakab.
The competition winners performed at several prestigious concerts:
Concert of the laureates of the MSVL with the chamber orchestra of the Brno Conservatory
Brno Conservatory, March 10, 2016Concert of the laureates of the MSVL with the chamber orchestra of the Brno Conservatory
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, April 3, 2016"Music unites nations" – concert of the laureates of the Slovak Music Academy
Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Wallenstein Palace, Prague, May 30, 2016
The competition was organized by the Intercultural Creative Life zs association, in cooperation with the Brno Conservatory, Petrof and Villa Tugendhat. The main media partner was Czech Radio Brno.