"Prague Viola Duo is comprised of excellent players. They are both successful at concerts and competitions. It is my pleasure to say that the duo is a very promising ensemble with a high degree of musicality. Tomáš and Jakub are also very intelligent and hardworking people and I wish them only the best".
Karel Doležal (1948-2018, violist, head of string studies at the Prague Conservatory, member of the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Society)
"...in Leclair´s Sonata they showed such a beautiful and joyful playing with perfect technique. I was impressed by their ornamentation and excellent balance. It was evident that they play together for a long time..."
Jan Pěruška (violist, member of the Stamic Quartet, professor at the Academy of Music Prague)
It is always my pleasure to listen to the excellent performance of the Prague Viola Duo. It almost doesn´t happen that some recording of my music makes me as happy as their recording of "Dialogues for two violas".
Jiří Laburda (composer, Professor emeritus at Charles University)
Formed in 2011 by two young Czech musicians Tomáš Hanousek and Jakub Macháček, the PRAGUE VIOLA DUO is the only one long-time performing Europian ensemble offering really extraordinary combination of two violas. Their repertoire consists of classical music from baroque to contemporary works dedicated to them. They also play popular music and film melodies in their own arrangements.
The Prague Viola Duo succesfully performed at festivals and concerts series and recieved several awards. Since 2015, both members have studied postgraduate Soloist Class Degree at SDMK - Danish National Academy of Music.
The concert audience and music critiques appreciate that the ensemble is very compact, moreover, they laud the players´spontaneity and temperament, joyful playing and a huge range of moods and characteristics that can be heard in their interpretation.