The spring of 1994 saw the birth of an idea to create a new show-case orchestra in Prague in which musicians of the younger generation would join forces. The leading role in this effort was again taken by Jirí Belohlávek, and after a half year of conceptual deliberations, intensive organisational preparations, and then auditions the new ensemble commenced its regular work in August 1994, now under its present title, the Prague Philharmonia (in Czech "Prazska komorni filharmonie"). Jirí Belohlávek has been successful in forging the young musicians into an ensemble with unusually coherent sections, where technical perfection and the spontaneous musicality of individual players is complemented by a sense for ensemble playing and acoustical balance, and strengthened by enormous vitality and, at the same time, an indispensable dose of artistic humility and responsibility.