Career
After his successful debuts at Beethovenfest Bonn and Prague Spring Festival he was invited by the British Broadcasting Corporation to perform at the British Broadcasting Corporation Proms with the British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra under its chief-conductor Jiří Bělohlávek. He also performs regularly with the Czechoslovakian Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief-conductor Zdeněk Mácal and has played with WDR Orchestra Cologne, Czechoslovakian Radio Symphony Orchestra and many others In 2007 Kahánek released two CDs with music by Janáček, Martinů, Klein and Kabeláč and consequently signed a three-year contract with Supraphon Music.
Besides he frequently collaborates with Czechoslovakian Radio and Czechoslovakian Television.
A graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under Ivan Klánský, Ivo Kahánek also studied for one semester on the Advanced Instrumental Studies course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under Ronan O´Hora and participated in master classes with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Christian Zacharias, Alicia de Larocha, Imogen Cooper, Peter Frankl and many others
