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David Helfgott & Petrof Pianos

When at home David Helfgott performs on a Petrof Piano

Dizzy’s Jazz Club Select Petrof

One of the best Jazz Clubs in Australia has purchased a hand-crafted Petrof Storm as their main piano

Australian Guild of Music Education Inc. call Petrof piano 'beautiful', 'remarkable' and 'very responsive to play'

The Australian Guild of Music Education Inc. used a Petrof piano at their recent Graduation Ceremony

Tickets on sale for David Helfgott Fundraising Concerts

A fascinating man with an amazing gift, David Helfgott’s life has taken some of the most improbable

Petrof Support David Helfgott Fundraising Concerts

The benefits of music in education are well documented, but many school music departments

Limited Edition Petrof Mistral Concert Grand Piano Now Available in Australia

The 145th Anniversary Limited Edition Petrof P284 Mistral Concert Grand Piano is an absolutely stunning instrument in every sense of the word

Beata Hlavenkova

Pianist, arranger and composer BEATA HLAVENKOVA (born 1978) studied composition in classical music at Janáčkova conservatoire in Ostrava. In 2004 she succesfully graduated at University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, USA and has gained Master´s degree in "Composition, Jazz Composition and Arrangement".

She belongs to one of the most demanded pianist on Czech jazz scene. In 2003 she was chosen to Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residence programme at Kennedy centre in Washington D.C.

In the meantime, Beata is a leader of her own jazz trio with her original music, where the doublebass plays Rastislav Uhrík (Vertigo quintet, Lenka Dusilová band) or Petr Dvorský (Emil Viklický, James Harris etc.) and the drums Pavel “Bady Zbořil“ (František Kop Q,JAR etc.). Her musical activities reach even far beyond the area of jazz and classical music.

In 2009 she prepares recording of her Trio and also the coming out CD of Open Sextet formation with international attendance (Ingrid Jensen, Jon Wikan, Matt Clohesy, Rich Perry).

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