Pavel Sporcl

Czech violinist Pavel Sporcl has gained wide popularity with both traditional repertory and crossover and world music performances. He has used audience-friendly devices such as wearing a bandana and playing a blue violin, and he has worked to realize the goal of making classical music less forbidding for young people, in a part of the world where such initiatives are rarer than in the West. He has also given numerous concerts for young people and worked extensively with school groups. Sporcl was born April 25, 1973, in Ceske Budejovice in what was then Czechoslovakia. Sporcl ...