Some artists arrive with quiet momentum. Jan Schulmeister arrives with something closer to inevitability. The twenty-year-old Czech pianist was first scheduled to perform in Singapore last year under the True Music Singapore banner — a debut that the classical music community here had been quietly anticipating. A health issue forced a late withdrawal, and in his place stepped Prof. Karel Kosarek, who delighted the packed house with a vivacious programme of Czech works and jazz-inflected pieces by Smetana, Martinů, Liszt, Gershwin, and Gulda. Now, in 2026, Schulmeister makes his long-awaited Singapore debut.

A sixth-generation descendant of the legendary Černý-Schulmeister musical dynasty — a lineage stretching back to the era of Antonín Dvořák — Schulmeister began his musical journey at age five and is currently completing his studies at both the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover. The pedigree is formidable. The talent, as his recent recordings make clear, is the real thing.

In April 2026, Schulmeister’s debut recording on Supraphon — the legendary Prague-based label whose catalogue spans Dvořák, Smetana, and generations of the finest Czech musical voices — received a rare five-star review and the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award 2026. Founded in 1932 and long considered the pre-eminent classical recording label of Central Europe, Supraphon is not a label that takes on artists lightly. That Schulmeister’s debut should earn both a five-star review and the award’s highest recognition speaks volumes about where this young artist stands.

The BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award places Schulmeister in distinguished company. The award has a track record of identifying artists at the precise moment their careers shift from promising to unmissable — and those who follow classical music closely will want to be in the room before that transition is complete.

The youngest member of the exclusive Petrof Art Family, Schulmeister has already released six studio albums and performed with elite ensembles including the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Brno Philharmonic. On 24 July, he brings the Petrof P237 Monsoon — an instrument whose warm, resonant European tone is ideally suited to the Slavic repertoire at the heart of his programme — to Victoria Concert Hall for the only Petrof concert in Singapore this year.

The Programme

The recital Schulmeister has assembled is ambitious in the best sense — not a crowd-pleasing greatest hits selection, but a carefully considered journey through the piano tradition, from Mozart’s Classical refinement to Scriabin’s mystical late-Romantic world.

Mozart · Fantasy in D minor, K. 397
Rachmaninoff · Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Selections
Tchaikovsky · Dumka in C minor, Op. 59 — Intermission —
Janáček · Sonata 1.X.1905 “From the Street”
Scriabin · 24 Preludes, Op. 11 — Selections

The programme ranges from the iconic — Rachmaninoff’s Prélude in C sharp minor, “The Bells of Moscow” known to audiences well beyond the classical world — to the deeply personal, including Janáček’s Sonata 1.X.1905 “From the Stree”, composed in the aftermath of a political protest and nearly destroyed by the composer himself. Scriabin’s kaleidoscopic 24 Preludes closes the evening. It is a programme that demands and rewards full attention, and one that will showcase the qualities — depth, authenticity, and an instinctive feel for this repertoire — that earned Schulmeister his Supraphon debut and his BBC award.

Tickets

Tickets go on sale 1 June 2026 at SISTIC.com, priced at $18 / $28 / $38 / $58 / $78.

For enquiries, contact True Music Singapore at: (+65) 9687 4480

Jan Schulmeister Piano Recital · 24 July 2026 · 8pm · Victoria Concert Hall · Organised by True Music Singapore · Presented by Cristofori Music · Supported by Petrof and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Singapore

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