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Lukáš Vondráček (born 21 October 1986) is a Czech pianist. Noted by The Chicago Tribune for his "considerable tenderness of tone" and "expressive impact" and by The Washington Post for his "astonishing delicacy", Vondráček won the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2016.

Early life and education
Vondráček was born on 21 October 1986 in Opava, to professional pianist parents. He played his debut concert at the age of four, and gave his first international tour at ten years old. He studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music with Andrzej Jasiński, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Peter Barcaba, University of Ostrava with Rudolf Bernatik, and at the New England Conservatory of Music with Hung-Kuan Chen, where he earned an Artist Diploma with Honors.

Career
In 2002, at the age of fifteen, Vondracek debuted with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. Ashkenazy has said of Vondracek: "Such a pianist is born once in thirty years." This debut was followed by a major US tour in 2003. Reviewing a concert at Chicago's Symphony Center (the closing concert of the tour), Vondracek's performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 was described by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune as "the hit of the evening".

In 2009, Vondracek was the recipient of The Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The following year, in 2010, he won the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

In 2016, Vondracek won the Queen Elisabeth Competition, becoming the first Czech musician to do so in the competition's history. His performance in the final round, which included Claude Ledoux's A Butterfly's Dream and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, led to a standing ovation.

Vondracek has continued to achieve considerable critical acclaim for his performances. Writing in The Boston Globe, Jeremy Eichler wrote about Vondracek's 2022 debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrůša: "his playing stood out most in its glittering, featherweight passagework and in its overall command of the work’s [Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2] dark, rhetorical drama." The same year, his return appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop was hailed by WTTW as a "galvanic performance", adding: "Vondracek ... rendered the extraordinary work with a superb mix of both titanic power and surprising lyricism."

Vondracek is currently recording all of the Rachmaninoff piano concertos with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. His discography includes releases for such labels as Two Pianists, Triton, and Musicom (where he recorded Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy).