Pavla Tesařová is one of the most outstanding talents of her generation. She began playing the violin at the age of seven under Hana Metelková and is currently a student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Pavel Kudelásek. At the age of nine, she performed with violinist Josef Suk and Prague Philharmonia in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle, and at eleven she appeared with Václav Hudeček in a live television broadcast from the Golden Prague International Television Festival. At the age of twelve, she performed Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto as a soloist in a televised concert from St Vitus Cathedral.
She has won numerous first prizes at national and international competitions, including the Kocian Violin Competition (overall winner), Talents for Europe, the Master Josef Muzika International Violin Competition, Prague Junior Note, New European Talents, the Josef Micka International Violin Competition (overall winner), Concertino Praga (laureate), Orpheus, Pro Bohemia (overall winner), Pula, Croatia (overall winner), and the Società Umanitaria Music Competition in Milan. In 2020, she won the France Music Competition in Paris and the Manhattan Music Competition in New York. In 2023, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Beethoven International Music Competition in the United Kingdom and received the Viktor Kalabis Foundation Award for the best student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In January 2024, she won a prize at the Franco Gulli International Violin Competition in Rome and successfully auditioned for the position of concertmaster of Prague Philharmonia.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Zielona Góra Philharmonic, South Czech Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, Europera, Pilsen Philharmonic, North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvořák Chamber Orchestra, Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Virtuosi di Praga, and many others.
She has appeared as a soloist under conductors including Libor Pešek, Jan Talich, Tomáš Brauner, Jessica Cottis, Gudni A. Emilsson, Jaroslav Vodňanský, Miloš Krejčí, Miriam Němcová, Chuhei Iwasaki, Czesław Grabowski, Koji Kawamoto, and Alfonso Scarano.
She performs in a duo with accordionist Markéta Laštovičková and also with her sister, oboist Bohdana Tesařová. Since 2020, she has been the first violinist of the Ševčík Quartet, with which she has studied, among others, with the renowned Günter Pichler in Madrid. In 2025, she recorded a solo album with conductor Jaroslav Krček and the Suk Chamber Orchestra and appeared with conductor Robert Kružík and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in a live television broadcast on Czech Television.
She plays a Czech violin made by Jaroslav Kohout in 2016, which she received as the winner of the 20th Václav Hudeček Academy.
