Brahms - Sonata in F-major, op. 99 | Thomas Prechal, cello & Martin Jaspard, piano

Johannes Brahms - Sonata in F-major for cello and piano, op. 99
I. Allegro vivace
II. Adagio affettuoso
III. Allegro passionato
IV. Allegro molto

Thomas Prechal, cello
Martin Jaspard, piano

Performance on November 1st, 2025 in the Recital Hall of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam during a recital in the 'Jonge Nederlanders' concert series. Video made by Polycast.

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Already from a young age, cellist and composer Thomas Prechal (30/11/2004) has been grasped by every aspect of music: from playing the cello, to composing his own pieces, improvising on the cello and the piano, music theoretical analysis and the beauty of bringing people together with the music. As a 'composing cellist', Thomas performs his own pieces with other repertoire, adding his own voice both as a cellist as well as a composer.

Thomas is regularly invited for concerts that have brought him not only to halls in the Netherlands (Concertgebouw Amsterdam) but also in France (Salle Cortot), Belgium, Germany, Switzerland (Verbier Festival), Austria, Spain (Auditorio de Galicia), the Czech Republic (Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum Prague) and Hungary. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras as Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchestr Pforzheim, Real Filharmonía de Galicia and North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Thomas is prizewinner at numerous competitions among which the 'David Popper', 'Gustav Mahler', 'Edmond Baert' and 'Bohuš Heran' international cello competitions and 'Princess Christina' composition competition. In 2021, Thomas received the Verbier Festival Special Prize of Merit and the Special Prize of the Zlín Region during the international festival Hudební Kroměříž in the Czech Republic.

As a composer, Thomas Prechal has been commissioned by a.o. Festival Young Talent Schiermonnikoog, Royal Choir 'La Bonne Espérance', Gaudeamus Muziekweek and North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. His oeuvre includes many chamber music works for different ensembles, as well as cello solo pieces and orchestral works. Thomas began playing cello at the age of five with Lenian Benjamins and is currently taking lessons with Jan-Ype Nota at the Academie voor Muzikaal Talent and Michel Strauss at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. He plays on a cello made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.