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, the first Czech musician to do so.

[8] In 2009, Vondráček was the recipient of The Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

[10] His performance in the final round, which included Claude Ledoux's A Butterfly's Dream and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.

"[13] The same year, his return appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop was hailed by WTTW as a "galvanic performance", adding: "Vondráček ... rendered the extraordinary work with a superb mix of both titanic power and surprising lyricism.

[16] His discography includes releases for such labels as Two Pianists,[17] Triton,[18] and Musicom (where he recorded Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.