Music Marathon 2024 I Anežka Nováková & Keishiro Mikawa

Anežka Nováková is a drummer and percussionist, a graduate of the JAMU Jazz Department's bachelor's program and currently also a student at the Department of Percussion Instruments there. She is a member of the Orchestral Academies of the Czech Philharmonic and the Brno Philharmonic and regularly collaborates with other professional orchestras. He has solo performances with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Janáček Academic Orchestra and, among others, recitals at the Brno Music Marathon or the International Symposium in Trstěnice. He is actively involved in the promotion and popularization of music for percussion instruments.
Keishiro Mikawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He started playing the piano at the age of five and the cello at the age of ten. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Comprehensive Art High School (TMCAHS) in 2014, first as a piano student and later changed his major to cello. He continued this at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he graduated in 2018. Since 2019, he has been living in Prague, where he studies with prof. Michal Kaňek and Tomáš Jamník. In 2020, he played at the opening concert of the 29th edition of the Mladá Praha International Festival. From August 2022 to August 2023 he was a member of the PKF Orchestral Academy (Prague Philharmonia) and since October 2023 he has been working in the orchestra of the National Theater Brno.