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SUMMARY:Memorial Concert in Honour of Prof. Juraj Filas on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birth Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:ŠVARCOVÁ & JANÁL & DUŠEK and others\n\n\n\n\n\nA concert in memory of Professor Juraj Filas organised by the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague to commemorate the unlived seventieth birthday of this Slovak composer. The programme will feature important chamber works performed by leading Czech soloists\, teachers and students of the Academy of Performing Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLICHTENSTEIN PALACE\, PRAGUE\n\n\n\nBOHUSLAV MARTINŮ HALL\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\nJURAJ FILAS: \n\n\n\n\nSonata „Amorosa“ for piano \n\n\n\nRomance concertante “Les illusions perdues” for bass-trombone and piano \n\n\n\nTwo arias of Jane from the opera Jane Eyre \n\n\n\nRomance for violin and piano \n\n\n\n„Smiles and Tears“ – Trio-sonata for two clarinets and piano \n\n\n\n„Satans Opfern“ – Fantasy for four trombones \n\n\n\n„The Confessions of a Poet“ – four songs for baritone and piano \n\n\n\n„Chiaroscuro“ – trio for violin\, clarinet and piano \n\n\n\n„De profundis“ – Sonata for trombone and organ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTerezie Švarcová – soprano \n\n\n\nRoman Janál – baritone \n\n\n\nLucie Fulka Kopsová – violin \n\n\n\nJana Černohousová\, Anna Sysová\, Karel Dohnal – clarinet \n\n\n\nLukáš Moťka\, Stanislav Penk\, Bohumil Tůma\, Veronika Lédlová – trombone \n\n\n\nLukáš Dvořák – organ \n\n\n\nŠtěpánka Rohlíčková\, Jan Dušek – piano \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/memorial-concert-in-honour-of-prof-juraj-filas-on-the-occasion-of-his-seventieth-birth-anniversary/
LOCATION:Liechtenstein Palace – Martinů Hall\, Malostranské nám. 13 13\, Prague 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
CATEGORIES:Dusek_EN,Janál_EN
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SUMMARY:25th International Chamber Music Festival (Opening Concert)
DESCRIPTION:KLAUDOVÁ & HOLUB & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nThe opening concert of the 25th International Chamber Music Festival in Klatovy will be in Czech tones. The music of Antonín Dvořák will be performed\, accompanied by other masterpieces from the pens of Leoš Janáček and Bedřich Smetana. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSÁL RADNICE\, KLATOVY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Moravian Double Songs\, Op. 20 for soprano\, tenor and piano \n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Gypsy Melodies\, Op. 55 (selection) \n\n\n\nLeoš Janáček: In the Mists \n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Biblical Songs\, Op. 99 (selection) \n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Rusalka\, Rusalka’s aria \n\n\n\nBedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride\, a duet of Mařenka and Vašek \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nMarkéta Klaudová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nMarkéta Klaudová (formerly Böhmová) was born in Brno into a musical family\, started in the Kantiléna choir and then performed in many productions of the National Theatre Brno as a member of the children’s choir not only in the Czech Republic but also on many foreign stages. During her studies at the Faculty of Education in Brno\, she successfully represented the school in several singing competitions and in 2014 she continued her studies in Campobasso\, Italy\, under the guidance of Professor Alda Caiello. In the same year she participated in the International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary\, where she received two special prizes for interpretation. AKAMUS\, L’armonia Terrena\, Czech Philharmonic\, FOK\, Janáček Philharmonic\, Czech Virtuosi\, Brno Philharmonic\, Zlín Philharmonic\, etc. and conductors. \n\n\n\nKlauda\, J. Klecker\, R. Kružík and others. She was a long-time member of the Czech Ensemble Baroque\, which focuses on the contemporary interpretation of works mainly by Baroque composers\, and is a founding member of the Drei Engel Trio. \n\n\n\nSince 2016 he has been a regular guest in most Czech theatres: ND in Prague (Pamina\, Servilia\, Donna Elvira\, Mařenka\, Blaženka\, Barena)\, DJKT in Plzeň (Ilia\, Ottavia\, Ismene)\, NDM in Ostrava (Servilia\, 1st reaper\, Eve/Bubikopf)\, SD in Opava (Countess Almaviva)\, JČD in České Budějovice (Pamina\, Mařenka\, Terinka\, soprano in the production of Messiah and Hey mistre!\, Mámení in the new opera Komenský)\, F.X. Šalda in Liberec (Vendulka) and participates in many festivals every year (Smetana Litomyšl\, Dvořák’s Prague\, Music Znojmo\, Dvořák Festival\, Leoš Janáček IMF\, Concentus Moraviae\, etc.) \n\n\n\nSince 2023\, she has also been a guest at the Aalto Theater in Essen\, Germany\, where she performed the roles of Susanna and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro under the baton of Tomáš Netopil.This year she will be a guest again\, this time in the role of Margarita in Louis Bertin’s opera Fausto. \n\n\n\nShe is a laureate of the prestigious singing competition Cesti Competition in Innsbruck\, she has already been nominated twice for the Thalia Award (the role of the Countess – SDO\, the role of Pamina – JČD)\, the role of the Countess also earned her the Jantar Award in 2021. She received the South Bohemian Thalia Award 2023 for the role of Mámení in the new opera Komenský by Jan Jirásek. This season she will make her debut at the Prague Spring Festival 2025\, where she will perform her solo in the Mozart repertoire together with Concentus musicus Wien under the direction of Tomáš Netopil. \n\n\n\nTranslated with DeepL.com (free version) \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021\, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/25th-international-chamber-music-festival-opening-concert/
LOCATION:Radnice Klatovy (Sál)\, Náměstí Míru 62\, Klatovy\, 33901\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Dusek_EN,Holub_EN
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SUMMARY:Their Music Lives On (Viktor Ulllmann and other artists)
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & HOLUB & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nTo mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War\, we are commemorating the works of authors who were victims of the war. Songs and piano pieces by Viktor Ullmann\, Rudolf Karel\, Pavel Haas and Hans Krása will be performed. \n\n\n\nThe concert will be preceded at 5.30 pm by a lecture by musicologist and translator Magdalena Živná on the personality and work of Viktor Ullmann and a presentation of his recently published monograph in Czech. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJerusalem Synagogue\, Prague\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann:  Six sonnets de Louïze Labé op. 34 (selection) \n\n\n\nPavel Haas: Suite for piano\, op. 13 (selection) \n\n\n\nHans Krása: 5 Lieder\, op. 4 \n\n\n\nRudolf Karel: In the Glow of the Hellenic Sun\, Op. 24 \n\n\n\nSylva Smejkalová: A la faveur de la nuit \n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: Brezulinka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIrena’s early music projects over recent years include programmes in cooperation with the Comic Opera (Berlin)\, German radio NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) and Belgian conductor Florian Heyerik (Salto vocale – fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann)\, with Musica Florea (operatic projects – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, Ensemble Tourbillon\, Barbara M. Willi\, Jaroslav Tůma\, Monika Knoblochová\, Petra Matějová and others. More recently\, she has been working closely with the international ensemble Orpheon; they have toured Spain\, Austria and France together and have also recorded an album\, Marin Marais and his friends. She has collaborated with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin\, joining in a fascinating project connecting the musicality of the Baroque with that of the Modern: Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio\, a concert cycle in the State Opera in Berlin which was followed by a programme from the works of J. S. Bach\, Bach – reloaded. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomet yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio. \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad. \n\n\n\nShe is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague. \n\n\n\nwww.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021\, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/their-music-lives-on-viktor-ulllmann-and-other-artists/
LOCATION:Jeruzalémská synagoga\, Jeruzalémská 1310/7\, Praha\, 11000\, Czech Republic
CATEGORIES:Dusek_EN,Holub_EN,Troupova_EN
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SUMMARY:Musica reanimata - Rudolf Karel
DESCRIPTION:HOLUB & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nMusic as resistance against the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia”\n\n\n\nConcert of Rudolf Karel’s song\, opera and piano works as part of the Musica reanimata festival in Berlin. \n\n\n\nThe performers are tenor Ondřej Holub and pianist Jan Dušek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStaatsbibliothek Unter den Linden\, Berlín\n\n\n\nWilhelm von Humboldt-Saal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nRudolf Karel: Tema con variazioni\, op. 13; V záři helénského slunce\, op. 24; Píseň svobody\, op. 41a ad. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021\, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/musica-reanimata-rudolf-karel/
LOCATION:Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden – Wilhelm von Humboldt-Saal\, Unter den Linden 8\, Berlin\, 10117\, Německo
CATEGORIES:Dusek_EN,Holub_EN
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SUMMARY:Restless Central European Viktor Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nFestive launch of the Czech edition of the monograph by German musicologist Ingo Schultz \n\n\n\nTHE RESTLESS CENTRAL EUROPEAN VIKTOR ULLMANN\n\n\n\nSTORY OF PRAGUE GERMAN COMPOSER\n\n\n\nThe Czech translation by Magdalena Živná is expanded with a chapter “Viktor Ullmann in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic”. \n\n\n\nKnihu pokřtí doc. Sylva Stejskalová\, proděkanka HAMU\, a Dr. Albrecht Dümling\, předseda společnosti musica reanimata (Berlín). \n\n\n\nThe launch will be accompanied by a concert of Viktor Ullmann’s compositions performed by Irena Troupová (soprano) and Jan Dušek (piano). \n\n\n\nR.S.V.P. by April 2\, 2024 to eva.zavrelova@amu.cz \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLichtenstein Palace\, Prague\n\n\n\nBohuslav Martinů Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: III. Piano sonata\, Zwei Chinesische Lieder\, Drei Sonette\, Brezulinka\, Little Cakewalk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIrena’s early music projects over recent years include programmes in cooperation with the Comic Opera (Berlin)\, German radio NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) and Belgian conductor Florian Heyerik (Salto vocale – fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann)\, with Musica Florea (operatic projects – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, Ensemble Tourbillon\, Barbara M. Willi\, Jaroslav Tůma\, Monika Knoblochová\, Petra Matějová and others. More recently\, she has been working closely with the international ensemble Orpheon; they have toured Spain\, Austria and France together and have also recorded an album\, Marin Marais and his friends. She has collaborated with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin\, joining in a fascinating project connecting the musicality of the Baroque with that of the Modern: Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio\, a concert cycle in the State Opera in Berlin which was followed by a programme from the works of J. S. Bach\, Bach – reloaded. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomet yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio. \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad. \n\n\n\nShe is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague. \n\n\n\nwww.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021\, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/restless-central-european-viktor-ullmann/
LOCATION:Liechtenstein Palace – Martinů Hall\, Malostranské nám. 13 13\, Prague 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
CATEGORIES:Dusek_EN,Troupova_EN
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SUMMARY:Songs With Moravian Scent
DESCRIPTION:SIBERA & HROCHOVÁ & HOLUB & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nCANCELLED\n\n\n\nIn 1875\, Antonín Dvořák began composing the first of his Moravian Duets to folk poetry. Although he originally intended only to adapt folk songs\, in the end he used only Moravian folk texts and set them to music in his own original way. The first non-public performance of these duets took place in the home environment of the wholesaler and patron Jan Neff. And their success inspired Dvořák to compose others. The first four are for soprano and tenor with piano\, the others for soprano and alto. Usually only a selection of the best known are performed in concert. But at our concert you will hear all 23 performed by soprano Jana Sibera\, mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová and tenor Ondřej Holub. \n\n\n\nBut since Moravian folk poetry did not only inspire Dvořák\, we will supplement his duets with virtually unknown songs by Antonín Tučapský and Miloslav Kabeláč. Last but not least\, we will hear one of the most impressive Czech song cycles of the 20th century\, Ej\, srdenko moje by Klement Slavický. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNovoměstská radnice\, Praha\n\n\n\nVelký sál\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Moravské dvojzpěvy op. 20\, 32 a 38  \n\n\n\nKlement Slavický: Ej\, srdenko moje \n\n\n\nAntonín Tučapský: Kvítí milodějné\, op. 7  \n\n\n\nMiloslav Kabeláč: Milostné písně  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera – soprano\n\n\n\n\nSoprano Jana Sibera graduated from the Prague Conservatory (2000) and the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (2005). Since 1995\, she has been a guest at the National Theatre and since 2000 at the State Opera Prague\, where she accepted an engagement in 2002. Since 1st January 2012 she has been a soloist of the National Theatre Opera. \n\n\n\nShe has appeared in productions of the State Opera Prague and the National Theatre as Mozart’s Zerlina (Don Giovanni)\, Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro)\, Papagena and the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and Despina (Così fan tutte); Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor)\, Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata)\, Gilda (Rigoletto) and Oscar (Masquerade Ball)\, as well as Musetta (Puccini: La bohème)\, Adéla (Strauss: Die Fledermaus)\, Philine (Thomas: Mignon)\, Frasquita and Micaela (Bizet: Carmen)\, The Cook and the First Maid (Dvořák: Rusalka)\, Clarisse (Weber – Mahler: The Three Pints)\, Cunegonde (Bernstein: Candide)\, in the triple role of the Waiter – the Miracle Child – the Pupil in Janáček’s opera The Excursions of Mr.Brouček under the baton of Charles Mackerras\, also as Karolina (Smetana: The Two Widows)\, Bystrouska (Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Terinka (Dvořák: Jakobín)\, Mařenka (Humperdinck: Jeníček a Mařenka)\, etc. Her repertoire also includes the roles of Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale)\, Blonda (Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio)\, Fiorilla (Rossini: The Turk in Italy) and Blaženka (Smetana: The Secret)\, which she staged for the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. \n\n\n\nShe performed in more than 40 performances of Don Giovanni in the summer stagion of Opera Mozart at the Estates Theatre. At the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre she guest-starred as Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata)\, Eurydice (Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld) and Annina (Strauss: A Night in Venice). In 2022 she performed the role of Manon in Jules Massenet’s opera of the same name\, for which she also won the Thalia Award. \n\n\n\nIn June 2008 she was a finalist in the Barbara Hendricks International Singing Competition in Strasbourg. In 2011 and 2012\, she guest starred as Violetta in Gdansk\, and in 2016 as Ophelia in Opera Gothenburg. She has also participated in several tours of the National Theatre Opera in Japan and Korea. Among her great successes is the collaboration with tenor Jonas Kaufmann on his profile CD for Decca. She has worked with conductors such as M. Armiliato\, Sir Ch. Mackerras\, J. Bělohlávek\, J. Latham-Koenig\, G. Tourniaire and E. Dovico. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová (Wallingerová)\, née Štefáčková\, gained her first singing experience in a children’s choir in the Moravian town of Šumperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Krásová from 1993 to 1999. In 2001\, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanová. In 1998\, she came in second at the Czech Conservatories Singing Contest. Her first engagements took place at the Opera Mozart in Prague between 1997 and 2000\, extending her activities to ancient music (with Ars Cameralis) and folk music (with the Muzika Jara ensemble). In 2000\, Mrs Hrochová was invited to join the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno\, Czech Republic. The repertoire she sang in Brno includes Carmen (Carmen)\, Laura (La Gioconda)\, Kate (The Devil and Kate)\, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)\, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)\, The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Varvara (Katja Kabanova)\, Fenena (Nabucco)\, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel)\, Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and others. Guest performances have taken the young mezzo to a number of opera houses\, such as the Prague National Theatre\, Prague State Opera\, Plzeň\, Ústí nad Labem\, Liberec\, Ostrava\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, State Theatre Košice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochová’s concert activities are an essential part of her repertoire and have brought her together with some leading Czech and foreign orchestras\, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra\, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra\, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra\, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek\, Serge Baudo\, Gerd Albrecht\, Manfred Honeck\, Ondrej Lenárd\, Petr Altrichter\, Jakub Hrůša\, Leoš Svárovský\, Tomáš Hanus\, Andrej Borejko\, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochová  often makes guest appearances at opera houses and concert stages outside the Czech Republic (Great Britain\, Japan\, China\, Spain\, Mexico\, Greece\, Netherlands\, Austria\, Germany and Italy). In 2011\, she sang the alto solo in Dvorak’s Requiem mass at a state funeral of Vaclav Havel. The Brno National Theatre awarded her with the DIVA 2005\, 2008 and 2010 Award. In 2012\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martinů for Naxos Records. In 2014\, she was invited to perform the role of Carmen in the Theatre Freiburg\, Germany. In 2016\, she made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. \n\n\n\nwww.janahrochova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\n\n\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\n\n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullman with soprano Irena Troupova. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\n\n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire. \n\n\n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-with-moravian-scent/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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SUMMARY:Benefit Concert for SIRIRI
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & HROCHOVÁ & ŠEMBERA & JANÁL & STEHLÍK\n\n\n\n\n\nThey say music heals. We take this saying literally and try to use music to help where help is not usually available. Just like last year\, we are entering the new year with a benefit concert in cooperation with Salsita s.r.o. This time we have established cooperation with the organization SIRIRI o.p.s.\, which intensively helps in the Central African Republic. Read more below. \n\n\n\nSoprano Irena Troupová\, mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová\, baritones Roman Janál and Vojtěch Šembera\, and pianists Bohumír Stehlík and Jan Dušek will all perform at the concert without any fee. \n\n\n\nThe evening will be hosted by Jana Trojanová and Milan Lukáš Šnajdr. \n\n\n\nThe entire collected entrance fee will be donated to SIRIRI o.p.s. to support the dialysis centre in Bangui run by doctor Cédric Ouanekpon\, who will attend the concert in person. \n\n\n\nThe concert will also feature the premiere of a short documentary film\, Healing and Hope in the Heart of Africa\, about the above mentioned doctor. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalsita Club\, Praha – Smíchov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbuy tickets\nChoose the ticket value according to your possibilities. If you wish to purchase a ticket in a different amount\, please contact us at vstupenky@liedercompany.cz. Thank you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicket sales are handled by \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhom are we helping?\n\n\n\n\nSIRIRI\, o.p.s\n\n\n\nSIRIRI is a Czech non-profit organization that helps Central Africans get back on their feet. \n\n\n\nOur mission is development aid to “donor orphans” – poor countries that are outside the interests of other organisations and official aid\, but cannot do without outside help. Awareness and education for “development thinking” and consciousness of co-responsibility for the situation in Africa. \n\n\n\nWe implement sustainable development projects in the Central African Republic (CAR) in collaboration with a reliable partner organization on the ground (the Genoese Province of the Barefoot Carmelites). The main goal of all SIRIRI projects is the resulting independence of the people of CAR from outside help – “helping them to stand on their own feet”. SIRIRI seeks to flourish the SAR’s own human and natural potential. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHealthy kidneys as a Christmas wish come true \n\n\n\nIt’s Christmas Day and my cell phone is ringing into the holiday season. A WhatsApp call from an unknown number with a Central African Republic area code. No\, really\, I’m not going to deal with work at Christmas yet! So I just write a dry reply saying it’s the holidays and what the person in question needs. I get a reply\, “Hello\, I’m so sorry to disturb you at Christmas time. Doctor Cédric gave me your number. I just wanted to thank you personally that thanks to your organization we can spend Christmas together as a family. Our son Josué wouldn’t be here otherwise. Thank you and have a wonderful Christmas!” Touchedness is replaced by amazement. It’s a bit like the Bible story when one of the ten lepers returns to thank Jesus for healing him. And so I silently thank the Lord God. And who is Josué? A student at the high school in Bangui\, where his daddy also teaches. He’s 19 now. He was just 18 when this story happened. He wasn’t feeling well\, and it soon turned out to be malaria. His parents did everything they could for him – including medical care. But the disease was very strong\, even frightening. After a few days\, the young man’s kidneys failed. The only chance of survival became the possibility of blood dialysis. \n\n\n\nStories that can go on \n\n\n\nFortunately\, a new clinic has been operating in Bangui for a year now\, headed by a young doctor\, Cédric Ouanekpon\, who used to see Josué regularly in the paediatrics pavilion next door. Unfortunately\, the family no longer had the means to cover the necessary eight sessions of hemodialysis. Cases like this rarely become chronic. One session costs 20\,000 Central African francs (750 CZK). Such treatment is equivalent to more than one month’s salary for an ordinary teacher in Bangui. But SIRIRI can fund similar cases\, enabling treatment where it would not be possible for financial reasons… and saving the lives of those who would otherwise not receive care and would have to die needlessly. And so we helped in this case. Josué will graduate next year. He would like to become an accountant or maybe just a doctor\, seeing how much good it can do! \n\n\n\nTaken from Catholic Weekly No. 45/2023 \n\n\n\nAuthor Jana Škubalová\, SIRIRI\, o.p.s. \n\n\n\nhttps://siriri.org/en/project/first-aid-fund-for-patients-of-the-blood-dialysis-centre-in-bangui/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nSongs\, Arias and Duets by Antonín Dvořák\, Bedřich Smetana\,  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and others \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nK projektům staré hudby posledních let patřily programy ve spolupráci s Komickou operou (Berlín)\, německým rozhlasem NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) a belgickým dirigentem Florianem Heyerikem (Salto vocale – průřez operami G. Ph. Telemanna)\, s Musicou Floreou (operní projekty – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, ansámblem Tourbillon\, Barbarou M. Willi\, Jaroslavem Tůmou\, Monikou Knoblochovou\, Petrou Matějovou a dalšími. V současné době spolupracuje především s mezinárodním souborem Orpheon\, se kterým absolvovala koncerty ve Španělsku\, Rakousku a Francii a nahrála CD Marin Marais and his friends. Se členy Staatskapelle Berlin uvedla pozoruhodný projekt spojující hudební řeč baroka a moderny Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio v koncertním cyklu Státní opery v Berlíně\, na který následně navázal program Bach – reloaded z děl J. S. Bacha. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomot yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio. \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová (Wallingerová)\, née Štefáčková\, gained her first singing experience in a children’s choir in the Moravian town of Šumperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Krásová from 1993 to 1999. In 2001\, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanová. In 1998\, she came in second at the Czech Conservatories Singing Contest. Her first engagements took place at the Opera Mozart in Prague between 1997 and 2000\, extending her activities to ancient music (with Ars Cameralis) and folk music (with the Muzika Jara ensemble).\n\nIn 2000\, Mrs Hrochová was invited to join the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno\, Czech Republic. The repertoire she sang in Brno includes Carmen (Carmen)\, Laura (La Gioconda)\, Kate (The Devil and Kate)\, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)\, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)\, The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Varvara (Katja Kabanova)\, Fenena (Nabucco)\, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel)\, Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and others. Guest performances have taken the young mezzo to a number of opera houses\, such as the Prague National Theatre\, Prague State Opera\, Plzeň\, Ústí nad Labem\, Liberec\, Ostrava\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, State Theatre Košice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochová’s concert activities are an essential part of her repertoire and have brought her together with some leading Czech and foreign orchestras\, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra\, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra\, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra\, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek\, Serge Baudo\, Gerd Albrecht\, Manfred Honeck\, Ondrej Lenárd\, Petr Altrichter\, Jakub Hrůša\, Leoš Svárovský\, Tomáš Hanus\, Andrej Borejko\, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochová  often makes guest appearances at opera houses and concert stages outside the Czech Republic (Great Britain\, Japan\, China\, Spain\, Mexico\, Greece\, Netherlands\, Austria\, Germany and Italy). In 2011\, she sang the alto solo in Dvorak’s Requiem mass at a state funeral of Vaclav Havel. The Brno National Theatre awarded her with the DIVA 2005\, 2008 and 2010 Award. In 2012\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martinů for Naxos Records. In 2014\, she was invited to perform the role of Carmen in the Theatre Freiburg\, Germany. In 2016\, she made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. \n\n\n\nwww.janahrochova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nVojtěch Šembera – baritone\n\n\n\n\nBaritone and composer Vojtěch Šembera studied singing at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno with Jaromír Novotný and Irena Troupová\, composition with Ivo Medek and Martin Smolka. He also studied briefly at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague\, the Netherlands\, where he attended composition classes with Cornelis de Bondt\, Calliope Tsoupaki and Jan van de Putte\, and further improved his singing skills under Noa Frenkel. He has participated in selected interpretation courses abroad (eg VENI Academy\, vocal masterclass EMA) and singing masterclasses with Antonio Carangel and Kateřina Kněžíková. In his singing practice\, he focuses mainly on the interpretation of contemporary music and the song repertoire. His composing activities are mostly aimed at vocal work and graphic scores. \n\n\n\nIn 2013 and 2014\, he was awarded an honourable mention at the GENERATION International Composition Competition\, and in 2015 he was awarded 2nd place at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in the Opera Hope category. In 2017\, he received 2nd place at the Dušek Singing Competition\, The President of the EMA prize and 3rd place at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in the Junior and Song categories. \n\n\n\nDuring his studies at JAMU\, he performed in several productions of the JAMU Chamber Opera (M. Hába: The Little Prince – The King\, The Snake; W. A. ​​Mozart: The Magic Flute – Papageno;C. Orff: Die Kluge – The Mule Man). He made his professional opera debut at the Silesian Theatre in Opava (A. Dvořák: Rusalka – Hunter) and also performed at the Jan Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Pilsen (A. Thomas: Hamlet – Horatio). In his concert activities he has performed with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra (C. Orff: Carmina Burana; J. S. Bach: John’s Passions; A. Dvořák: Biblical Songs)\, with the National Theatre Orchestra (D. Matej: KyAriAe)\, North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice (W. A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro – Count Almaviva) and others. In collaboration with Ensemble 18+\, he portrayed one of the main roles in the renewed premiere of Joseph Barta’s singspiel Dobrá rada dobrá. He performed his own composition for baritone and orchestra Filoktétés with the Brno Philharmonic and the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mariánské Lázně. Together with Leoš Svárovský and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra\, he made a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Biblical Songs. In the field of contemporary music\, he has performed with the ensembles VENI ensemble\, Mirror ensemble\, at the festival Days of New Opera Ostrava (A. Hába: Thy Kingdom Come –Christ\, Lay Preacher; Songbooks – Solo Voice)\, or with Orchestr BERG (L. Lim: Tongue of the Invisible). During his one-year study stay in the Netherlands\, he collaborated with the Orkest de Ereprijs on the Young Composers Meeting project and performed at the Dag in de Branding festival (M. Artaç: Zizos). He regularly collaborates with the Meeting of New Music Plus festival. With his own project Voice Drowned in the Ocean of Silence\, which has so far been attended by composers from more than 10 countries\, he contributes to expanding the repertoire for solo voice. \n\n\n\nwww.vojtechsembera.com \n\n\n\n\nRoman Janál – baritone\n\n\n\n\nAfter graduation from the Pilsen Conservatory in violin playing\, Janál studied singing at the Music Academy in Sophia\, Bulgaria. During the course of his studies he was guest singer at the State Opera House of Sophia (Don Giovanni\, Eugen Onegin\, Prince Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia) and appeared at local chamber music festivals. He first worked in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) after graduating in 1990\, he then left for the Prague Chamber Opera (later Mozart Opera). In 1994 he became guest singer of the Pilsen Opera House (Lady of Spades – Tomskij\, Faust and Marguerite\, – Valentin\, Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni\, Fidelio – Don Pizarro). After a successful debut in the State Opera of Prague as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Figaro in Barber of Seville\, he was a soloist for the State Opera of Prague in 1995. In November 1995 he became over-all winner of the Antonín Dvořák International Singers‘ Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 1997 he has been the soloist of the National Theatre of Prague where he has performed a number of national and international repertoire parts\, such as Grégorio in Romeo and Juliet\, Figaro in Barber of Seville\, Escamillio in Carmen\, Pollux in the Baroque lyric tragedy Castor et Pollux\, the title part in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The list of his opera repertoire also includes the parts of Onegin in Yevgeny Onegin\, Marcel in La Boheme\, Silvio in Cavalleria Rusticana\, Conte Almaviva in Figaro’s Wedding\, Germont in La Traviata\, roles in operas by Martinů\, Smetana\, Janáček and Dvořák\, etc. He has often participated in a number of foreign tours with the Prague National Theatre\, such as in Japan\, Hong Kong\, France\, Germany\, Netherlands\, Korea. Roman Janál has successfully appeared in local and international music festivals such as the Prague Spring\, the Smetana Litomyšl\, the International Music Festival of Český Krumlov\, The Pontes Festival\, The Days of Bohuslav Martinů in London\, the Europalia Brussels and The B. Martinů Festival in Amsterdam. He regularly collaborates with acclaimed conductors (Jiří Bělohlávek\, Christopher Hogwood\, Jiří Kout\, Serge Baudo\, John Fiore\, Tomáš Hanus) and with local and international orchestras\, including the Prague Philharmonia\, the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. In February 2007 he participated in the recording of Janacek´s opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek (the roles of Sacristan\, Lunobor and Domsik) with Jiri Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, for the BBC and Deutsche Grammophon (released in January 2008). Since 1984\, he has recorded extensively for Czech Radio\, performing a range of repertoire from opera arias to contemporary Czech song-cycles. These recordings were released on CD and have resulted in the issue of a profile operatic album\, including arias from operas by W. A. Mozart\, L. van Beethoven\, G. Verdi\, B. Smetana and others. Roman Janál won the prestigious Thalia Prize in 1999 for the part of Pollux in Rameau’s „Castor and Pollux“ at the National Theatre of Prague. \n\n\n\nwww.romanjanal.com \n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík – piano\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík is one of the foremost Czech pianists of the younger generation. He has distinguished himself both as a soloist and chamber music player\, having developed a sensitive instrumental skill and great musical expressive power. \n\n\n\nBohumír’s music education started at an early age at the Music Gymnasium in Prague under Irina Kondratěnko and later on at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under František Malý. From 2011 to 2016 he studied under well-know Swedish pianist Mats Widlund at Edsberg Music Institute\, part of the Royal Academy in Stockholm and one of the most prestigious music academies of Northern Europe. He has been awarded various prizes in many international solo competitions (e.g. Ljunggrenska tävlingen – 1st prize\, Stockholm International Music Competition – 2nd price\, Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte – 1st prize\, Concertino Praga – 1st prize etc.). Bohumir also obtained the Yamaha Scholarship Award and the prestigious KMA Swedish National Scholarship for both solo piano\, chamber music and accompaniment (maximal sum reached in 2015). A member of Duo du Rêve\, Bohumír and flautist Jana Jarkovská won prizes in various competitions of music ensembles (Chieri International Music Competition “Citta di Chieri” – 1st prize\, Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition – 1st prize\, Salieri-Zinneti Chamber Music Competition – 3rd prize\, winner of ProMusicis International Award in France\, winner of ISA Challenge and Open Awards in Austria etc.). He also recorded several CDs with Jana Jarkovska. Outside Duo du Rêve\, he collaborates with violinist Markéta Janoušková and is also a member of D’Accord chamber music ensemble. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his concert activities\, he collaborates with Czech Radio. Bohumír also works in productions for the Povaleč Music Festival (CZ) and the „D’Accord\, Das Klassikfestival“ in (D)\, where he also leads the masterclass. He worked as a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music at Karlstad University in Sweden and since October 2016 has also been teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Bohumír works as a regenschori in the Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny (CZ). \n\n\n\nwww.bohumirstehlik.com \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021\, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
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LOCATION:Salsita Club\, Štefánikova 25\, Praha 5\, 15000\, Česká republika
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SUMMARY:Songs of Romantic Masters
DESCRIPTION:HROCHOVÁ & ČERVINEK & ŘEZNÍČEK & STEHLÍK\n\n\n\n\n\nIt would surely be a great mistake to omit the anniversary of Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)\, whose song output is as fundamental as his chamber or symphonic works\, in 2023. For this concert\, we have therefore chosen the lesser-performed works of this great Romantic composer and supplemented them with other works by the jubilee Romantic composers Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) and Max Reger (1873-1916). The work of the latter is virtually unknown in this country\, and his songs may never have been heard in Bohemia. The programme will surprisingly conclude pieces by seldomly performed but interesting composers Frank Bridge  (1879 – 1941) and Adolph Busch (1839 – 1913). \n\n\n\nThese romantic song gems will be performed by leading Czech mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová\, young promising baritone Robin Červinek\, violist Jan Řezníček and pianist Bohumír Stehlík. \n\n\n\nThe concert will take place in the sought-after pleasant environment of Club Salsita in Smíchov. \n\n\n\nThe compositions will be performed in the original languages and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalsita Club\, Prague – Smíchov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nJohannes Brahms: 2 Gesange\, Op. 91 for voice\, viola and piano; 4 Duets\, Op.28 for mezzo-soprano\, baritone and piano \n\n\n\nEdward Hagerup Grieg: Six Songs\, op. 4; Melody of the Heart\, Op.5 \n\n\n\nMax Reger: Five Songs\, Op. 98 \n\n\n\nFrank Bridge: Three Songs for voice\, viola and piano \n\n\n\nAdolph Busch: Three Songs for voice\, viola and piano \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová (Wallingerová)\, née Štefáčková\, gained her first singing experience in a children’s choir in the Moravian town of Šumperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Krásová from 1993 to 1999. In 2001\, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanová. In 1998\, she came in second at the Czech Conservatories Singing Contest. Her first engagements took place at the Opera Mozart in Prague between 1997 and 2000\, extending her activities to ancient music (with Ars Cameralis) and folk music (with the Muzika Jara ensemble). In 2000\, Mrs Hrochová was invited to join the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno\, Czech Republic. The repertoire she sang in Brno includes Carmen (Carmen)\, Laura (La Gioconda)\, Kate (The Devil and Kate)\, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)\, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)\, The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Varvara (Katja Kabanova)\, Fenena (Nabucco)\, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel)\, Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and others. Guest performances have taken the young mezzo to a number of opera houses\, such as the Prague National Theatre\, Prague State Opera\, Plzeň\, Ústí nad Labem\, Liberec\, Ostrava\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, State Theatre Košice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochová’s concert activities are an essential part of her repertoire and have brought her together with some leading Czech and foreign orchestras\, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra\, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra\, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra\, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek\, Serge Baudo\, Gerd Albrecht\, Manfred Honeck\, Ondrej Lenárd\, Petr Altrichter\, Jakub Hrůša\, Leoš Svárovský\, Tomáš Hanus\, Andrej Borejko\, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochová  often makes guest appearances at opera houses and concert stages outside the Czech Republic (Great Britain\, Japan\, China\, Spain\, Mexico\, Greece\, Netherlands\, Austria\, Germany and Italy). In 2011\, she sang the alto solo in Dvorak’s Requiem mass at a state funeral of Vaclav Havel. The Brno National Theatre awarded her with the DIVA 2005\, 2008 and 2010 Award. In 2012\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martinů for Naxos Records. In 2014\, she was invited to perform the role of Carmen in the Theatre Freiburg\, Germany. In 2016\, she made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. \n\n\n\nwww.janahrochova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nRobin Červinek – baritone\n\n\n\n\nRobin Červinek was born in Kyjov\, where he also started singing at the Basic Arts School. He attended private lessons with David Szendiuch\, a soloist of the National Theatre in Olomouc. In 2021\, he completed his master’s degree at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno in Zdeněk Šmukař’s class. He has also been a student at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna since 2020\, where he studies with Prof. Margit Klaushofer. During his studies\, he has participated in several international performance courses with international artists and teachers such as Adam Plachetka\, Kateřina Kněžíková\, Thomas Steinhöfel\, Singfried Goritz\, Irena Sylya and Amelia Felle. \n\n\n\nHe has performed the following roles in the chamber opera at the Orlí Theatre in Brno: The King in Orff’s opera Die Kluge\, The Poet in the contemporary opera Unknown by Daniel Šimek\, The Count in Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa and The Count in Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro. At the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre in Vienna he performed the role of Harlequin in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. \n\n\n\nHe has also taken part in several international competitions. In 2018 he was the overall winner of the Prague Singer competition. He won 2nd prize at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary\, where he also won numerous special prizes\, such as the Jan Lucemburský Prize\, the Beno Blachut Prize\, the Vilém Zítek Prize and the Milan Bürger Prize. His other competition successes include 2nd place at the Dusek Performance Competition. In May 2019\, he won 2nd prize at the Iuventus Canti competition. In 2021\, he won 2nd prize at the Iuventus Canti competition and was a laureate of the Mikulas Schneider-Trnavsky International Competition. In November 2021 he was the winner of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition\, where he also won three special prizes.  Since the 2021/2022 season he has been a member of the opera studio of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. He also makes guest appearances at the National Theatre in Brno and the National Theatre in Ostrava. \n\n\n\n\nJan Řezníček – viola\n\n\n\n\nJan Řezníček first studied violin at both the Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts and later extended his studies at the latter institution to include the viola. Řezníček worked briefly as a violinist in the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra and as a second violinist and violist in the Moravian Quartet before returning to the Brno State Philharmonic to take up the position of violist. Řezníček has\, however\, also collaborated with other major ensembles from home and abroad\, such as the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic; the Brno Philharmonic; the Moravian Chamber Orchestra; the Talich Chamber Orchestra and the Toronto Sinfonietta; as well as with conductors of both illustrious and less illustrious names\, including other fellow instrumentalists. Řezníček regularly performs with pianists Jiřina Kolmanová and Eduard Spáčil\, either with them or with other colleagues\, to regularly premiere selected works by Czech or foreign contemporary composers. Currently\, Řezníček is mainly associated with the Janáček Quartet\, with whom he performs on concert stages and on international tours\, but he also finds time for his own solo viola recitals in front of audiences at home and abroad. Řezníček continues to work with the latter group\, has recorded countless albums and has travelled to several countries. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his artistic activities\, Jan Řezníček also teaches at both the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts\, under whose wing he served as professor of chamber music. In addition to his educational activities\, Řezníček also teaches new young candidates for musical education at instrumental courses in Turnov or Nové Město na Moravě\, or sits on juries of competitions at conservatories and primary art schools. For years Jan Řezníček has been associated mainly with performing with the Janáček Quartet or with his own solo recitals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík – piano\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík is one of the foremost Czech pianists of the younger generation. He has distinguished himself both as a soloist and chamber music player\, having developed a sensitive instrumental skill and great musical expressive power.  \n\n\n\nBohumír’s music education started at an early age at the Music Gymnasium in Prague under Irina Kondratěnko and later on at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under František Malý. From 2011 to 2016 he studied under well-know Swedish pianist Mats Widlund at Edsberg Music Institute\, part of the Royal Academy in Stockholm and one of the most prestigious music academies of Northern Europe. He has been awarded various prizes in many international solo competitions (e.g. Ljunggrenska tävlingen – 1st prize\, Stockholm International Music Competition – 2nd price\, Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte – 1st prize\, Concertino Praga – 1st prize etc.). Bohumir also obtained the Yamaha Scholarship Award and the prestigious KMA Swedish National Scholarship for both solo piano\, chamber music and accompaniment (maximal sum reached in 2015). A member of Duo du Rêve\, Bohumír and flautist Jana Jarkovská won prizes in various competitions of music ensembles (Chieri International Music Competition “Citta di Chieri” – 1st prize\, Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition – 1st prize\, Salieri-Zinneti Chamber Music Competition – 3rd prize\, winner of ProMusicis International Award in France\, winner of ISA Challenge and Open Awards in Austria etc.). He also recorded several CDs with Jana Jarkovska. Outside Duo du Rêve\, he collaborates with violinist Markéta Janoušková and is also a member of D’Accord chamber music ensemble. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his concert activities\, he collaborates with Czech Radio. Bohumír also works in productions for the Povaleč Music Festival (CZ) and the „D’Accord\, Das Klassikfestival“ in (D)\, where he also leads the masterclass. He worked as a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music at Karlstad University in Sweden and since October 2016 has also been teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Bohumír works as a regenschori in the Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny (CZ). \n\n\n\nwww.bohumirstehlik.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-of-romantic-masters/
LOCATION:Salsita Club\, Štefánikova 25\, Praha 5\, 15000\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20231119T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20231119T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
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SUMMARY:Songs For And With Children
DESCRIPTION:SIBERA & HOLUB & DUŠEK & STEHLÍK\n\n\n\n\n\nThis concert is specific for the performance of compositions by Viktor Kalabis\, which are intended for children’s singers. This year\, when we commemorate the centenary of the birth of this Czech composer\, we have decided to perform his complete song output. For the selection of children’s performers\, an audition was therefore organised. The selected performers are announced among performers. \n\n\n\nThe second half of the concert will be completed by compositions by Leonard Bernstein and Francis Poulenc\, which are composed for adult performers but intended for children listeners. In addition\, we will present the world premiere of a new composition by the young composer Darja Kukal Moiseeva for soprano\, tenor\, children voice and four-hand piano. \n\n\n\nThe concert is intended also for children visitors\, which is why it takes place at 3 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLichtenstein palace\, Prague\n\n\n\nBohuslav Martinů Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nViktor Kalabis: Dětské písně\, op.15; Album lidových písní\, op. 23\, Písničky pro nejmenší\, op. 37 \n\n\n\nLeonard Bernstein: I Hate Music \n\n\n\nFrancis Poulenc: 4 Chansons pour enfants \n\n\n\nDarja Kukal Moiseeva: Commissioned piece for soprano\, tenor\, children voice and piano four hands (premiere) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera – soprano\n\n\n\n\nSoprano Jana Sibera graduated from the Prague Conservatory (2000) and the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (2005). Since 1995\, she has been a guest at the National Theatre and since 2000 at the State Opera Prague\, where she accepted an engagement in 2002. Since 1st January 2012 she has been a soloist of the National Theatre Opera. \n\n\n\nShe has appeared in productions of the State Opera Prague and the National Theatre as Mozart’s Zerlina (Don Giovanni)\, Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro)\, Papagena and the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and Despina (Così fan tutte); Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor)\, Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata)\, Gilda (Rigoletto) and Oscar (Masquerade Ball)\, as well as Musetta (Puccini: La bohème)\, Adéla (Strauss: Die Fledermaus)\, Philine (Thomas: Mignon)\, Frasquita and Micaela (Bizet: Carmen)\, The Cook and the First Maid (Dvořák: Rusalka)\, Clarisse (Weber – Mahler: The Three Pints)\, Cunegonde (Bernstein: Candide)\, in the triple role of the Waiter – the Miracle Child – the Pupil in Janáček’s opera The Excursions of Mr.Brouček under the baton of Charles Mackerras\, also as Karolina (Smetana: The Two Widows)\, Bystrouska (Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Terinka (Dvořák: Jakobín)\, Mařenka (Humperdinck: Jeníček a Mařenka)\, etc. Her repertoire also includes the roles of Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale)\, Blonda (Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio)\, Fiorilla (Rossini: The Turk in Italy) and Blaženka (Smetana: The Secret)\, which she staged for the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. \n\n\n\nShe performed in more than 40 performances of Don Giovanni in the summer stagion of Opera Mozart at the Estates Theatre. At the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre she guest-starred as Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata)\, Eurydice (Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld) and Annina (Strauss: A Night in Venice). In 2022 she performed the role of Manon in Jules Massenet’s opera of the same name\, for which she also won the Thalia Award. \n\n\n\nIn June 2008 she was a finalist in the Barbara Hendricks International Singing Competition in Strasbourg. In 2011 and 2012\, she guest starred as Violetta in Gdansk\, and in 2016 as Ophelia in Opera Gothenburg. She has also participated in several tours of the National Theatre Opera in Japan and Korea. Among her great successes is the collaboration with tenor Jonas Kaufmann on his profile CD for Decca. She has worked with conductors such as M. Armiliato\, Sir Ch. Mackerras\, J. Bělohlávek\, J. Latham-Koenig\, G. Tourniaire and E. Dovico. \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\n\n\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\n\n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\nChildern performers of Viktor Kalabis´ Songs\n\nHrubešová\, Madlen\n\n\n\nHřivňáková\, Michaela\n\n\n\nJakubíčková\, Anna\n\n\n\nJirák\, Martin\n\n\n\nLuňáková\, Berenika\n\n\n\nMráz\, Filip\n\n\n\nRozumek\, Bohdan Luis\n\n\n\nŠtěpánová\, Tereza\n\n\n\nWertzová\, Emma\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullman with soprano Irena Troupova. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\n\n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire. \n\n\n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík – piano\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík is one of the foremost Czech pianists of the younger generation. He has distinguished himself both as a soloist and chamber music player\, having developed a sensitive instrumental skill and great musical expressive power. \n\n\n\nBohumír’s music education started at an early age at the Music Gymnasium in Prague under Irina Kondratěnko and later on at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under František Malý. From 2011 to 2016 he studied under well-know Swedish pianist Mats Widlund at Edsberg Music Institute\, part of the Royal Academy in Stockholm and one of the most prestigious music academies of Northern Europe. He has been awarded various prizes in many international solo competitions (e.g. Ljunggrenska tävlingen – 1st prize\, Stockholm International Music Competition – 2nd price\, Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte – 1st prize\, Concertino Praga – 1st prize etc.). Bohumir also obtained the Yamaha Scholarship Award and the prestigious KMA Swedish National Scholarship for both solo piano\, chamber music and accompaniment (maximal sum reached in 2015). A member of Duo du Rêve\, Bohumír and flautist Jana Jarkovská won prizes in various competitions of music ensembles (Chieri International Music Competition “Citta di Chieri” – 1st prize\, Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition – 1st prize\, Salieri-Zinneti Chamber Music Competition – 3rd prize\, winner of ProMusicis International Award in France\, winner of ISA Challenge and Open Awards in Austria etc.). He also recorded several CDs with Jana Jarkovska. Outside Duo du Rêve\, he collaborates with violinist Markéta Janoušková and is also a member of D’Accord chamber music ensemble. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his concert activities\, he collaborates with Czech Radio. Bohumír also works in productions for the Povaleč Music Festival (CZ) and the „D’Accord\, Das Klassikfestival“ in (D)\, where he also leads the masterclass. He worked as a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music at Karlstad University in Sweden and since October 2016 has also been teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Bohumír works as a regenschori in the Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny (CZ). \n\n\n\nwww.bohumirstehlik.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-for-and-with-children-sibera-holub-dusek-stehlik/
LOCATION:Liechtenstein Palace – Martinů Hall\, Malostranské nám. 13 13\, Prague 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20231022T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20231022T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20230520T125817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230930T114542Z
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SUMMARY:Strings Suit Songs
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & HROCHOVÁ & GRAFFE QUARTET\n\n\n\n\n\nThe combination of the human voice and string instruments has been attractive to many composers\, especially in the 20th century\, but remains so today. This concert is made up of works in which the accompaniment of the songs is not provided by the usual piano\, but by a string quartet or just a selection of some strings.  \n\n\n\nThe concert will include the world premiere of a composition by Miloš Štědroň composed for soprano Irena Troupová and mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová. \n\n\n\nFor the concert we have also commissioned a piece by the Czech female composer Terezie Švarcová\, which we will also perform in its world premiere. \n\n\n\nThere will also be wonderful works by Ottorino Respighi\, Viktor Ullmann and Paul Hindemith\, which were also composed for this setting. \n\n\n\nThe compositions will be presented in the original languages and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSalsita Club\, Prague – Smíchov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nOttorino Respighi: Il tramonto for voice and string quartet \n\n\n\nPaul Hindemith: Melancholie\, Op.13 for voice and string quartet \n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: Three Songs for voice and string trio \n\n\n\nMiloš Štědroň: Cantigas y Estampidas for two female voices and string quartet /PREMIERE/ \n\n\n\nTerezie Švarcová: Vier Gedichte von Christian Morgenstern for two female voices and string quartet /PREMIERE/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIrena’s early music projects over recent years include programmes in cooperation with the Comic Opera (Berlin)\, German radio NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) and Belgian conductor Florian Heyerik (Salto vocale – fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann)\, with Musica Florea (operatic projects – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, Ensemble Tourbillon\, Barbara M. Willi\, Jaroslav Tůma\, Monika Knoblochová\, Petra Matějová and others. More recently\, she has been working closely with the international ensemble Orpheon; they have toured Spain\, Austria and France together and have also recorded an album\, Marin Marais and his friends. She has collaborated with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin\, joining in a fascinating project connecting the musicality of the Baroque with that of the Modern: Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio\, a concert cycle in the State Opera in Berlin which was followed by a programme from the works of J. S. Bach\, Bach – reloaded. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomot yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio.\n\n  \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová (Wallingerová)\, née Štefáčková\, gained her first singing experience in a children’s choir in the Moravian town of Šumperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Krásová from 1993 to 1999. In 2001\, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanová. In 1998\, she came in second at the Czech Conservatories Singing Contest. Her first engagements took place at the Opera Mozart in Prague between 1997 and 2000\, extending her activities to ancient music (with Ars Cameralis) and folk music (with the Muzika Jara ensemble).\n\nIn 2000\, Mrs Hrochová was invited to join the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno\, Czech Republic. The repertoire she sang in Brno includes Carmen (Carmen)\, Laura (La Gioconda)\, Kate (The Devil and Kate)\, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)\, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)\, The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Varvara (Katja Kabanova)\, Fenena (Nabucco)\, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel)\, Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and others. Guest performances have taken the young mezzo to a number of opera houses\, such as the Prague National Theatre\, Prague State Opera\, Plzeň\, Ústí nad Labem\, Liberec\, Ostrava\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, State Theatre Košice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochová’s concert activities are an essential part of her repertoire and have brought her together with some leading Czech and foreign orchestras\, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra\, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra\, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra\, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek\, Serge Baudo\, Gerd Albrecht\, Manfred Honeck\, Ondrej Lenárd\, Petr Altrichter\, Jakub Hrůša\, Leoš Svárovský\, Tomáš Hanus\, Andrej Borejko\, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochová  often makes guest appearances at opera houses and concert stages outside the Czech Republic (Great Britain\, Japan\, China\, Spain\, Mexico\, Greece\, Netherlands\, Austria\, Germany and Italy).\n\nIn 2011\, she sang the alto solo in Dvorak’s Requiem mass at a state funeral of Vaclav Havel. The Brno National Theatre awarded her with the DIVA 2005\, 2008 and 2010 Award. In 2012\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martinů for Naxos Records. In 2014\, she was invited to perform the role of Carmen in the Theatre Freiburg\, Germany. In 2016\, she made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. \n\n\n\nwww.janahrochova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nGraffe Quartet\n\n\n\n\nThe Graffe Quartet is one of the leading Czech ensembles of the middle generation and continues the rich performance tradition of the Czech quartet school. Founded in 1997\, the ensemble has been awarded numerous prizes at international competitions (International Beethoven’s Hradec Performance Competition 1999; ACT International Chamber Ensemble Competition 2003 – London\, Great Britain; International Competition “Verfemte Musik” 2005 – Schwerin\, Germany)\, and has twice received the Leoš Janáček Foundation Prize (2001\, 2003) for its interpretation of Leoš Janáček’s quartets. In 2005\, the quartet won the special prize of the French association “Forum Voix Etouffés” and in 2008 the prestigious Czech Chamber Music Association Prize at the Czech Philharmonic\, placing it alongside the winners of this prize\, the most important Czech chamber ensembles. \n\n\n\nDuring their studies\, members of the Janáček Quartet (especially Prof. Adolf Sýkora) contributed to the artistic growth of the Graffe Quartet\, and Prof. Jerry Horner (a member of the famous American Fine Arts Quartet)\, with whom the quartet collaborated from 2006 to 2017\, was a major artistic influence. The quartet has also repeatedly participated in a number of international chamber music courses\, where it has had the opportunity to study under the guidance of leading artists. This included Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet\, Vienna)\, Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel (Amadeus Quartet\, London)\, László Mezö (Bartók Quartet\, Budapest)\, Milan Škampa (Smetana Quartet\, Prague) and others. \n\n\n\nThe Graffe Quartet has performed on hundreds of concert stages on three continents as part of major concert series (Dvořák Hall\, Prague Rudolfinum\, Czech Chamber Music Society; Besední dům in Brno\, Society of Friends of Music; Chicago Chamber Music Society\, USA; Spivay Hall\, Atlanta\, USA; Leamington Music\, UK\, etc. Recently\, the ensemble has also performed at many important music festivals\, such as Prague Spring\, Varna Summer International Music Festival\, Bratislava Music Festival\, Moravian Autumn\, Janáček Brno\, Concentus Moravia\, Leoš Janáček International Music Festival in Ostrava\, etc. Recordings of the ensemble have been made by radio and television stations not only in Europe\, but also overseas (Czech\, Slovak\, Croatian Radio\, BBC\, American Public Media\, Czech Television\, Tv NOE\, etc.). The Graff Quartet has also made recordings on CD\, which have repeatedly won the title “Recording of the Month” on the prestigious British music portal MusicWeb International. \n\n\n\nThe Graffe Quartet’s repertoire has included around 150 works of chamber literature over 25 years of activity\, and the ensemble has collaborated in larger chamber ensembles with a number of important artists. These have included: Michio Otaki-piano (USA)\, Grigorios Zamparas-piano (USA)\, Jitka Čechová-piano\, Igor Ardašev-piano\, Jan Jiraský-piano\, Bohuslav Matoušek-viola\, Josef Špaček-violin\, viola\, Kristina Fialová-viola\, Jiří Bárta-violoncello\, Petr Nouzovský-violoncello\, James Campbell-clarinet (Kandada)\, Irvin Venyš-clarinet\, Vlastimil Mareš-clarinet\, Pražák Quartet\, etc. The quartet is also the ensemble in residence of the VOX IMAGINIS art cycle\, which takes place in cooperation with the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Within the framework of these music-drama programmes\, the quartet has collaborated with a number of leading Czech actors. Among them we can mention: Jitka Molavcová\, Maria Durnova\, Lubomíra Sonková\, Alfred Strejček\, Jan Kačer\, Josef Somr\, Vladimír Krátký\, František Derfler\, Sasha Rašilov\, Michal Bumbálek\, Otakar Brousek Jr. \n\n\n\nThe Graffe Quartet has given many world premieres of works by major composers and many compositions have been dedicated to the ensemble. The premieres have included works by Bohuslav Martinů\, André Previn\, Werner Schulz\, Jiří Pavlica\, Milan Slimáček\, Miloš Štědron\, etc. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.graffequartet.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/strings-suit-songs/
LOCATION:Salsita Club\, Štefánikova 25\, Praha 5\, 15000\, Česká republika
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SUMMARY:Songs of Russian Romantics
DESCRIPTION:HROCHOVÁ & JANÁL & DUŠEK\n\n\n\n\n\nThe double anniversary of one of the most important late Romantic composers\, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)\, is certainly being marked by the entire musical world. His song output is so vast that it is impossible to present it in its entirety. Therefore\, the concert will include a representative selection of it and will be complemented by works by other Russian greats Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)\, whose songs are rather rarely performed in this country\, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908). The latter is usually represented mainly by the symphonic suite Scheherazade\, but the songs are completely unknown\, although their artistic quality is undeniable. \n\n\n\nThe songs will be sung in Russian and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNovoměstská radnice\, Prague\n\n\n\nGreat Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: selection of songs from op. 6\, 25\, and 38 \n\n\n\nSergei Rachmaninoff: selection of songs from op. 8\, 14\, 26\, and 34 \n\n\n\nNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Four Romances op. 39; Four Romances op. 40 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová (Wallingerová)\, née Štefáčková\, gained her first singing experience in a children’s choir in the Moravian town of Šumperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Krásová from 1993 to 1999. In 2001\, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanová. In 1998\, she came in second at the Czech Conservatories Singing Contest. Her first engagements took place at the Opera Mozart in Prague between 1997 and 2000\, extending her activities to ancient music (with Ars Cameralis) and folk music (with the Muzika Jara ensemble). In 2000\, Mrs Hrochová was invited to join the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno\, Czech Republic. The repertoire she sang in Brno includes Carmen (Carmen)\, Laura (La Gioconda)\, Kate (The Devil and Kate)\, Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)\, Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)\, The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen)\, Varvara (Katja Kabanova)\, Fenena (Nabucco)\, Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel)\, Nicklausse (The Tales of Hoffmann) and others. Guest performances have taken the young mezzo to a number of opera houses\, such as the Prague National Theatre\, Prague State Opera\, Plzeň\, Ústí nad Labem\, Liberec\, Ostrava\, Olomouc (Czech Republic)\, State Theatre Košice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochová’s concert activities are an essential part of her repertoire and have brought her together with some leading Czech and foreign orchestras\, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Prague Radio Symphonic Orchestra\, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra\, Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra\, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra\, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek\, Serge Baudo\, Gerd Albrecht\, Manfred Honeck\, Ondrej Lenárd\, Petr Altrichter\, Jakub Hrůša\, Leoš Svárovský\, Tomáš Hanus\, Andrej Borejko\, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochová  often makes guest appearances at opera houses and concert stages outside the Czech Republic (Great Britain\, Japan\, China\, Spain\, Mexico\, Greece\, Netherlands\, Austria\, Germany and Italy). In 2011\, she sang the alto solo in Dvorak’s Requiem mass at a state funeral of Vaclav Havel. The Brno National Theatre awarded her with the DIVA 2005\, 2008 and 2010 Award. In 2012\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Dulcinée in Massenet’s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013\, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martinů for Naxos Records. In 2014\, she was invited to perform the role of Carmen in the Theatre Freiburg\, Germany. In 2016\, she made her BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. \n\n\n\nwww.janahrochova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nRoman Janál – baritone\n\n\n\n\nAfter graduation from the Pilsen Conservatory in violin playing\, Janál studied singing at the Music Academy in Sophia\, Bulgaria. During the course of his studies he was guest singer at the State Opera House of Sophia (Don Giovanni\, Eugen Onegin\, Prince Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia) and appeared at local chamber music festivals. He first worked in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) after graduating in 1990\, he then left for the Prague Chamber Opera (later Mozart Opera). In 1994 he became guest singer of the Pilsen Opera House (Lady of Spades – Tomskij\, Faust and Marguerite\, – Valentin\, Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni\, Fidelio – Don Pizarro). After a successful debut in the State Opera of Prague as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Figaro in Barber of Seville\, he was a soloist for the State Opera of Prague in 1995. In November 1995 he became over-all winner of the Antonín Dvořák International Singers‘ Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 1997 he has been the soloist of the National Theatre of Prague where he has performed a number of national and international repertoire parts\, such as Grégorio in Romeo and Juliet\, Figaro in Barber of Seville\, Escamillio in Carmen\, Pollux in the Baroque lyric tragedy Castor et Pollux\, the title part in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The list of his opera repertoire also includes the parts of Onegin in Yevgeny Onegin\, Marcel in La Boheme\, Silvio in Cavalleria Rusticana\, Conte Almaviva in Figaro’s Wedding\, Germont in La Traviata\, roles in operas by Martinů\, Smetana\, Janáček and Dvořák\, etc. He has often participated in a number of foreign tours with the Prague National Theatre\, such as in Japan\, Hong Kong\, France\, Germany\, Netherlands\, Korea. Roman Janál has successfully appeared in local and international music festivals such as the Prague Spring\, the Smetana Litomyšl\, the International Music Festival of Český Krumlov\, The Pontes Festival\, The Days of Bohuslav Martinů in London\, the Europalia Brussels and The B. Martinů Festival in Amsterdam. He regularly collaborates with acclaimed conductors (Jiří Bělohlávek\, Christopher Hogwood\, Jiří Kout\, Serge Baudo\, John Fiore\, Tomáš Hanus) and with local and international orchestras\, including the Prague Philharmonia\, the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. In February 2007 he participated in the recording of Janacek´s opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek (the roles of Sacristan\, Lunobor and Domsik) with Jiri Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, for the BBC and Deutsche Grammophon (released in January 2008). Since 1984\, he has recorded extensively for Czech Radio\, performing a range of repertoire from opera arias to contemporary Czech song-cycles. These recordings were released on CD and have resulted in the issue of a profile operatic album\, including arias from operas by W. A. Mozart\, L. van Beethoven\, G. Verdi\, B. Smetana and others. Roman Janál won the prestigious Thalia Prize in 1999 for the part of Pollux in Rameau’s „Castor and Pollux“ at the National Theatre of Prague. \n\n\n\nwww.romanjanal.com \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004—2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanuš Bartoň)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London (2016—2017). He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released with soprano Irena Troupova a CD  of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullman\, in 2021 complete songs by Hans Winterberg. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Festival junger Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\n\n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ”. In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading soloists (such as flutist Monika Štreitová and Matei Ioachiumescu\, oboist Bart Schneemann\, clarinettists Lilian Lefébvre and Irvin Venyš\, percussionist Markéta Mazourová\, and conductors Charles Olivieri-Munroe\, Petr Louženský\, Marko Ivanović\, and Lukáš Vasilek) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire. \n\n\n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-of-russian-romantics-hrochova-janal-dusek/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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SUMMARY:KALABIS & LIGETI 100 – Complete Songs
DESCRIPTION:SIBERA & HOLUB & JANÁL & ŠEMBERA & DUŠEK & STEHLÍK\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the centenary of the birth of two composers – the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis and one of the most important composers of the 20th century\, György Ligeti. \n\n\n\nIt is said that a listener can only get to know the work and thinking of a composer thoroughly if he knows his entire oeuvre. And since the chamber song works of these composers are rarely performed in concert\, we will give listeners the opportunity to hear them in their entirety in one evening.  \n\n\n\nMoreover\, it will be performed by the best Czech singers and pianists. Their songs will be performed by soprano Jana Sibera\, last year’s winner of the Thalia Award\, young tenor Ondřej Holub\, baritones Roman Janál and Vojtěch Šembera and pianists Bohumír Stehlík and Jan Dušek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNovoměstská radnice\, Praha\n\n\n\nGreat Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nViktor Kalabis: \n\n\n\nLessons from the Sons\, Op.1 \n\n\n\nBird Weddings\, Op. 5 \n\n\n\nFive Romantic Songs of Love\, Op. 38 \n\n\n\nCarousel of Life\, Op. 70 \n\n\n\nGyörgy Ligeti: \n\n\n\nHárom Weöres-dal \n\n\n\nÖt Arany-dal \n\n\n\nDer Sommer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera – soprano\n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera\, soloist of The National Theatre Opera\, is one of the most sought-after interpreters of the lyric coloratura roles in the Czech Republic. She graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. \n\n\n\nShe regularly appears in the roles of Violetta\, Queen of the Night\, Susanna\, Gilda\, Lucia di Lammermoor\, Julliette\, Ophelie\, The Cunning Little Vixen\, Terinka\, Blaženka\, Mařenka and many others. \n\n\n\nShe is a permanent guest of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava. In 2017\, she was nominated for the Thalia Award for the role of Ophelie\, the role she successfully sang in Gothenburg opera house. She collaborates with all major orchestras in the Czech Republic and has toured with the National Theatre in Japan several times. Jana Sibera was invited to sing as the only guest with J. Kaufmann on his profile CD for Decca.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.janasibera.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\n\n\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\n\n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\nRoman Janál – baritone\n\n\n\n\nAfter graduation from the Pilsen Conservatory in violin playing\, Janál studied singing at the Music Academy in Sophia\, Bulgaria. During the course of his studies he was guest singer at the State Opera House of Sophia (Don Giovanni\, Eugen Onegin\, Prince Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia) and appeared at local chamber music festivals. He first worked in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) after graduating in 1990\, he then left for the Prague Chamber Opera (later Mozart Opera). In 1994 he became guest singer of the Pilsen Opera House (Lady of Spades – Tomskij\, Faust and Marguerite\, – Valentin\, Don Giovanni – Don Giovanni\, Fidelio – Don Pizarro). After a successful debut in the State Opera of Prague as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Figaro in Barber of Seville\, he was a soloist for the State Opera of Prague in 1995. In November 1995 he became over-all winner of the Antonín Dvořák International Singers‘ Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 1997 he has been the soloist of the National Theatre of Prague where he has performed a number of national and international repertoire parts\, such as Grégorio in Romeo and Juliet\, Figaro in Barber of Seville\, Escamillio in Carmen\, Pollux in the Baroque lyric tragedy Castor et Pollux\, the title part in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The list of his opera repertoire also includes the parts of Onegin in Yevgeny Onegin\, Marcel in La Boheme\, Silvio in Cavalleria Rusticana\, Conte Almaviva in Figaro’s Wedding\, Germont in La Traviata\, roles in operas by Martinů\, Smetana\, Janáček and Dvořák\, etc. He has often participated in a number of foreign tours with the Prague National Theatre\, such as in Japan\, Hong Kong\, France\, Germany\, Netherlands\, Korea. Roman Janál has successfully appeared in local and international music festivals such as the Prague Spring\, the Smetana Litomyšl\, the International Music Festival of Český Krumlov\, The Pontes Festival\, The Days of Bohuslav Martinů in London\, the Europalia Brussels and The B. Martinů Festival in Amsterdam. He regularly collaborates with acclaimed conductors (Jiří Bělohlávek\, Christopher Hogwood\, Jiří Kout\, Serge Baudo\, John Fiore\, Tomáš Hanus) and with local and international orchestras\, including the Prague Philharmonia\, the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. In February 2007 he participated in the recording of Janacek´s opera The Excursions of Mr. Broucek (the roles of Sacristan\, Lunobor and Domsik) with Jiri Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, for the BBC and Deutsche Grammophon (released in January 2008). Since 1984\, he has recorded extensively for Czech Radio\, performing a range of repertoire from opera arias to contemporary Czech song-cycles. These recordings were released on CD and have resulted in the issue of a profile operatic album\, including arias from operas by W. A. Mozart\, L. van Beethoven\, G. Verdi\, B. Smetana and others. Roman Janál won the prestigious Thalia Prize in 1999 for the part of Pollux in Rameau’s „Castor and Pollux“ at the National Theatre of Prague. \n\n\n\nwww.romanjanal.com \n\n\n\n\nVojtěch Šembera – baritone\n\n\n\n\nBaritone and composer Vojtěch Šembera studied singing at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno with Jaromír Novotný and Irena Troupová\, composition with Ivo Medek and Martin Smolka. He also studied briefly at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague\, the Netherlands\, where he attended composition classes with Cornelis de Bondt\, Calliope Tsoupaki and Jan van de Putte\, and further improved his singing skills under Noa Frenkel. He has participated in selected interpretation courses abroad (eg VENI Academy\, vocal masterclass EMA) and singing masterclasses with Antonio Carangel and Kateřina Kněžíková. In his singing practice\, he focuses mainly on the interpretation of contemporary music and the song repertoire. His composing activities are mostly aimed at vocal work and graphic scores. \n\n\n\nIn 2013 and 2014\, he was awarded an honourable mention at the GENERATION International Composition Competition\, and in 2015 he was awarded 2nd place at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in the Opera Hope category. In 2017\, he received 2nd place at the Dušek Singing Competition\, The President of the EMA prize and 3rd place at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in the Junior and Song categories. \n\n\n\nDuring his studies at JAMU\, he performed in several productions of the JAMU Chamber Opera (M. Hába: The Little Prince – The King\, The Snake; W. A. ​​Mozart: The Magic Flute – Papageno;C. Orff: Die Kluge – The Mule Man). He made his professional opera debut at the Silesian Theatre in Opava (A. Dvořák: Rusalka – Hunter) and also performed at the Jan Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Pilsen (A. Thomas: Hamlet – Horatio). In his concert activities he has performed with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra (C. Orff: Carmina Burana; J. S. Bach: John’s Passions; A. Dvořák: Biblical Songs)\, with the National Theatre Orchestra (D. Matej: KyAriAe)\, North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice (W. A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro – Count Almaviva) and others. In collaboration with Ensemble 18+\, he portrayed one of the main roles in the renewed premiere of Joseph Barta’s singspiel Dobrá rada dobrá. He performed his own composition for baritone and orchestra Filoktétés with the Brno Philharmonic and the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mariánské Lázně. Together with Leoš Svárovský and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra\, he made a recording of Antonín Dvořák’s Biblical Songs. In the field of contemporary music\, he has performed with the ensembles VENI ensemble\, Mirror ensemble\, at the festival Days of New Opera Ostrava (A. Hába: Thy Kingdom Come –Christ\, Lay Preacher; Songbooks – Solo Voice)\, or with Orchestr BERG (L. Lim: Tongue of the Invisible). During his one-year study stay in the Netherlands\, he collaborated with the Orkest de Ereprijs on the Young Composers Meeting project and performed at the Dag in de Branding festival (M. Artaç: Zizos). He regularly collaborates with the Meeting of New Music Plus festival. With his own project Voice Drowned in the Ocean of Silence\, which has so far been attended by composers from more than 10 countries\, he contributes to expanding the repertoire for solo voice. \n\n\n\nwww.vojtechsembera.com \n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\nJan Dušek studied at the Conservatory in Teplice (piano\, composition). In 2004-2012\, he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Hanus Barton)\, where he finished his doctoral studies in the same field in 2012. Since then\, Jan Dušek has taught at the composition department of the Academy. As a pianist he participated in several master courses (Cyprien Katsaris\, Irina Ossipova\, Angela Hewitt\, Lilit Grygorian\, Maria João Pires)\, in 2013/14 he studied piano privately with Robert Lehrbaumer in Vienna\, in 2015 with Xiao-Mei Zhu in Paris\, and since 2016 with Gordon Fergus-Thompson in London. He has won awards and honourable mentions in competitions (Concertino Praga\, the International Piano Competition B. Smetana Competition of Conservatories\, Zdenek Fibich International Competition in the interpretation of melodrama). He periodically records contemporary Czech music for Czech Radio\, e.g. in 2019\, he completed a  recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullman with soprano Irena Troupova. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring\, Věčná naděje\, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.). \n\n\n\nIn 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition “Generation“ for the piece “… in seven days I will send rain on the Earth …”\, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition “Gradation for organ.” In 2008 he received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ for the composition “Chalomot jehudi’im”\, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010\, his melodrama “Prague Walker” was awarded 2nd prize in the Competition for Young Artists\, announced by the City District Prague 1. For his music to accompany the silent film “The Child of the Ghetto”\, Jan received the ‘Audience’s Prize’ in the 2011 NuBerg competition. His compositions have been commissioned by festivals and competitions (such as the International Festival of Concert Melodrama\, Viktor Ullmann festival Český Těšín\, Prague Spring Competition etc.)\, and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Venyš and the percussionist Markéta Mazourová) as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras (e.g.\, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble\, Epoque quartet; BERG Orchestra; Prague Philharmonia; Prague Philharmonic Choir). In 2021\, Jan co-established the Lieder Company association which aims to promote art song recitals and repertoire.\n \n\n\n\nwww.jan-dusek.com \n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík – piano\n\n\n\n\nBohumír Stehlík is one of the foremost Czech pianists of the younger generation. He has distinguished himself both as a soloist and chamber music player\, having developed a sensitive instrumental skill and great musical expressive power. \n\n\n\nBohumír’s music education started at an early age at the Music Gymnasium in Prague under Irina Kondratěnko and later on at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under František Malý. From 2011 to 2016 he studied under well-know Swedish pianist Mats Widlund at Edsberg Music Institute\, part of the Royal Academy in Stockholm and one of the most prestigious music academies of Northern Europe. He has been awarded various prizes in many international solo competitions (e.g. Ljunggrenska tävlingen – 1st prize\, Stockholm International Music Competition – 2nd price\, Virtuosi per Musica di Pianoforte – 1st prize\, Concertino Praga – 1st prize etc.). Bohumir also obtained the Yamaha Scholarship Award and the prestigious KMA Swedish National Scholarship for both solo piano\, chamber music and accompaniment (maximal sum reached in 2015). A member of Duo du Rêve\, Bohumír and flautist Jana Jarkovská won prizes in various competitions of music ensembles (Chieri International Music Competition “Citta di Chieri” – 1st prize\, Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition – 1st prize\, Salieri-Zinneti Chamber Music Competition – 3rd prize\, winner of ProMusicis International Award in France\, winner of ISA Challenge and Open Awards in Austria etc.). He also recorded several CDs with Jana Jarkovska. Outside Duo du Rêve\, he collaborates with violinist Markéta Janoušková and is also a member of D’Accord chamber music ensemble. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his concert activities\, he collaborates with Czech Radio. Bohumír also works in productions for the Povaleč Music Festival (CZ) and the „D’Accord\, Das Klassikfestival“ in (D)\, where he also leads the masterclass. He worked as a teacher at the Ingesund Academy of Music at Karlstad University in Sweden and since October 2016 has also been teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Bohumír works as a regenschori in the Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny (CZ). \n\n\n\nwww.bohumirstehlik.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/kalabis-ligeti-100-complete-songs-sibera-holub-janal-sembera-dusek-stehlik/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230528T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230528T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
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SUMMARY:Songs To The Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & HILSCHEROVÁ & JEŽEK & SÍTKOVÁ\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet’s allow the songs that have been silent for decades to be heard! \n\n\n\n\nIn the context of the Lieder Company Prague concerts\, this will be an exceptional evening in which we will exchange the concert hall for an intimate church setting\, the piano for the majestic sound of the organ and listen to rarely performed Czech sacred vocal music of the 20th and 21st centuries. This repertoire is often overlooked in concerts – undoubtedly due to the long years of totalitarian rule\, anti-religious restrictions\, and cultural dictatorship\, which violently interrupted a tradition of Czech sacred music that was several hundred years old. Authors composing sacred works were persecuted during the communist era\, often standing outside the official sphere despite their undisputed qualities\, and their work fell into oblivion without the possibility of performance and publication.  \n\n\n\nThe programme will feature works by Norbert Kubát\, Jaromír Herle\, Vojtěch Adalbert Říhovský\, Leoš Janáček\, Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann and Jan Hanuš\, and contemporary composers Luboš Sluka\, Petr Fiala\, and especially Olga Ježková and Jan Bernátek\, who composed works specifically for this concert. \n\n\n\nThe interprets will perform on the organ balcony\, but the audience can watch them thanks to a projection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChurch Panna Maria pod řetězem\, Prague\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nSacred works of prominent Czech authors of the 20th and 21st centuries on Marian texts. The world premiere of Four Songs to the Virgin Mary for middle voice and organ by Jan Bernátek and Invocation of the Virgin Mary for soprano\, alto\, violin and organ by Olga Ježková. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch the videos in which the composer Olga Ježková talks about her diptych Invocation of the Virgin Mary\, which she composed for this concert on our commission\, and the composer Jan Bernátek about his cycle Four Songs to the Virgin Mary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIrena’s early music projects over recent years include programmes in cooperation with the Comic Opera (Berlin)\, German radio NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) and Belgian conductor Florian Heyerik (Salto vocale – fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann)\, with Musica Florea (operatic projects – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, Ensemble Tourbillon\, Barbara M. Willi\, Jaroslav Tůma\, Monika Knoblochová\, Petra Matějová and others. More recently\, she has been working closely with the international ensemble Orpheon; they have toured Spain\, Austria and France together and have also recorded an album\, Marin Marais and his friends. She has collaborated with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin\, joining in a fascinating project connecting the musicality of the Baroque with that of the Modern: Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio\, a concert cycle in the State Opera in Berlin which was followed by a programme from the works of J. S. Bach\, Bach – reloaded. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomot yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio. \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad.  \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nLucie Hilscherová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe Czech mezzo-soprano Lucie Hilscherová has been a guest singer at the National Theatre in Prague\, the National Maravian-Silesian Theatre\, the DJKT Theatre in Pilsen\, the Silesian Theater in Opava\, the State Theater in Košice and the Nationaltheater Mannheim (Quickly in Falstaff\, Panna Róza in The Secret\, Mère Marie de l’Incarnation in Dialogues des Carmélites\, Emilie in Otello\, Martha in Jolanta\, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro\, Háta in The Bartered Bride\, Martinka in The Kiss etc.). Besides opera\, her musical activities also include concerts. She realises a wide musical spectrum\, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. Her concert engagements include mezzo-soprano/alto parts e.g.:. in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio\, Mattheus Passion\, Händel’s Messiah\, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis\, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle\, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater\, Saint Ludmila and Requiem\, Verdi’s Requiem\, Mahler’s The Song of the Earth and Symphony No. 2\, Stravinski‘s Les Noces\, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Berio’s Folk Songs. \n\n\n\n She has worked with conductors such as Helmuth Rilling\, David Porcelijn\, Alexander Vedernikov\, Kazushi Ono\, Libor Pešek\, Jiří Bělohlávek\, Tomáš Netopil\, Petr Vronský and Leoš Svárovský\, and with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra\, the London Symphony Orchestra\, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra\, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR\, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart\, Tonkünstler Orchestra\, Orchestra of Poznań Philharmonic\, Czech Philharmonic\, Prague Symphony Orchestra\, PKF-Prague Philharmonia\, Brno Philharmonic and Collegium 1704. She has sung at Musikfest Stuttgart\, Beethovenfest Bonn\, Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen\, Prague Spring\, Easter Festival of Sacred Music Brno\, Smetana’s Litomyšl and Peter Dvorský International Music Festival. \n\n\n\n Lucie Hilscherová obtained a Master’s degree in Solo singing as well as in Psychology and Music Teaching at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. An Erasmus scholarship enabled her to study at the College of Humanities of Chemnitz University (Germany).  \n\n\n\nShe has regularly participated in Bachakademie Stuttgart\, led by Helmut Rilling. She attended master classes by Helen Donath\, Hedwig Fassbender\, Gabriela Beňačková\, Dagmar Pecková or Zlatica Livorová.  \n\n\n\nShe has received a number of awards and prizes (Cantilena Competition Bayreuth; “Musica Sacra“ International Competition in Roma; Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary). \n\n\n\nhttps://www.hilscherova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\nŠtěpán Ježek – violin\n\n\n\n\nŠtěpán Ježek (*1979) has been playing music since the age of five. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts\, where he founded the Bennewitz Quartet in 1998\, of which he is still a member. With this ensemble\, he continued his postgraduate studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and at the Musik-Akademie in Basel\, and also participated in many masterclasses. \n\n\n\nAs a member of the Bennewitz Quartet\, Jezek has won numerous awards at international competitions (ARD Munich\, Osaka Chamber Music Competition\, Premio Paolo Borciani). He has performed with the ensemble in Europe\, Asia and America and has made numerous recordings for the Supraphon\, Coviello Classics and Hänssler Classic labels\, as well as for radio and television. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his work with the Bennewitz Quartet\, Ježek is a historically informed interpreter of early music. He has attended several masterclasses with performers specializing in this repertoire (Sonia Monosoff\, Catharine Macintosh\, Simon Standage) and performed with leading Czech ensembles specializing in this period (Collegium 1704\, Musica Florea). \n\n\n\nOn the other side of the stylistic spectrum is Ježek’s interest in contemporary music. He premiered several chamber works by Olga Ježková (Zažíhání / Running\, Dialogues of a Little Prince\, Duo for violin and clarinet) and Pavel Hrabánek’s Art Nouveau Triple Concerto.Štěpán Ježek is a professor of violin at the Gymnasium and Music School of the Capital City of Prague. He teaches chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. \n\n\n\n\nLinda Sítková – organ\n\n\n\n\nLinda Sítková is a Czech organist\, belonging to the top of contemporary Czech organ musicians. Her main activities include concerts in Czech Republic and abroad\, teaching and musical accompaniments of the liturgy. She serves as an organist in parishes at St. Jan na Skalce of Prague New Town and at St. Salvator in Prague 1. \n\n\n\nLinda Sítková comes from Rožnov pod Radhoštěm\, where she attended the Primary Art School in the class of Eva Průšová and Libuše Pavelčáková. After graduating from the local grammar school\, she entered the Prague Conservatory in 1999 to the organ class of Prof. Jan Hora. From 2003 to 2008 she continued her studies under his guidance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. From 2004 to February 2009 she was a student at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart with the outstanding Norwegian organist and teacher Prof. Jon Laukvik. In 2010 she continued her studies in Stuttgart also with Prof. J. Laukvik in the Solistenklasse\, which she successfully completed in 2012. In 2013\, she completed her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the doctoral program in the class of Prof. J. Hora and received her Ph.D. degree (dissertation topic “Organ in instrumental chamber ensembles in Czech music after 1945”). She actively participated in master classes with leading teachers and interpreters of organ literature (Ewald Kooiman\, Ludger Lohmann\, Martin Sander\, Harald Vogel\, Almut Rössler\, Thiery Mechler and others). \n\n\n\nLinda Sítková is a successful laureate of many domestic and international competitions. She is the winner of the Opava 2000 International Organ Competition and the winner of the Czech Music Fund Award for the best performance of a contemporary composition. She also won the 3rd prize at the Voříšek Vamberk Competition (2001)\, the 3rd prize at the International Organ Competition Brno 2002\, the 3rd prize at the International Organ Competition of J. P. Sweelinck in Gdańsk (2003) and in 2004 she became the absolute winner of the International Organ Competition in Mülheim\, Germany. In 2005 she won 2nd prize at the International Bach Prize Competition in Wiesbaden. In 2006 she was a finalist for the Honorable Mention in the Prague Spring Competition. In 2007 she won the Jean Langlais Prize at the International Organ Competition in St. Albans (England). In 2009\, she was the only Czech participant in the history of the competition since 1963 to win the 2nd prize in performance at the same competition. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, she regularly performs in this country and abroad (she has appeared at the International Organ Festivals in Chartres (France)\, Birmingham (England)\, Edinburgh (Scotland)\, Naumburg\, Stuttgart\, Nürnberg\, Bonn\, Karlsruhe (Germany)\, Wien (Austria) and others). He has collaborated with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava\, the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, the Bach-College Prague and other symphonic and chamber ensembles.She also works intensively with leading Czech solo musicians (Lucie Hilscherová – mezzo-soprano\, Roman Janál – baritone\, Jan Verner – trumpet\, Marie Fuxová – violin\, Magdalena Mašláňová – violin\, Jan Adamus – oboe and others). \n\n\n\nIn addition to her concert activities\, she is a private teacher in Czech\, German and English. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.lindasitkova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-to-the-virgin-mary-troupova-hilscherova-jezek-sitkova/
LOCATION:Kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem\, Lázeňská 285\, Praha 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230430T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230430T193000
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SUMMARY:Songs Tuned to Harp
DESCRIPTION:TROUPOVÁ & HOLUB & HÄRTELOVÁ\n\n\n\n\n\nA very intimate concert featuring songs for voice and harp – an extremely interesting combination\, but one that is not often heard. The first half of the concert features works by now almost forgotten French and English women composers of the early 19th century. The second half features works by their younger colleagues of the same nationality – Louis Vierne and Benjamin Britten. \n\n\n\nThere will a premiere of a new composition A la faveur de la nuit for soprano\, tenor and harp\, set to a text by the French poet Robert Desnos\, who died in the Terezín concentration camp. This piece was commissioned by us from Sylva Smejkalová for this concert and will be given its world premiere. \n\n\n\nThe compositions will be performed in the original and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClub Salsita\, Prague\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme:\n\n\n\n\nBenjamin Britten: Eight folk songs for higher voice and harp \n\n\n\nLouis Vierne: Four Greek Songs for voice and harp \n\n\n\nSylva Smejkalová: A la faveur de la nuit (Premiere) \n\n\n\nSongs by classical and early romantic women composers: A Lady of Fashion (kolem 1800); Harriet Abrams (1760-1822); Jeanne-Renée de Travanet (1753-1828); Sophie Gail (1775-1819); Pauline Duchambge (1776-1858); Nélia Maillard (1803-1835); Maria Malibran (1808-1836) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers:\n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\n\nThe eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupová gained international renown through the historically-based interpretation of early music\, which she devoted herself to already during her musicology studies at Charles University in Prague. She studied singing under Terezie Blumová in Prague\, later under M. Corelli in Berlin. She collaborated with the ensemble Musica Antiqua Praha led by Pavel Klikar\, creating a string of recordings and exceptionally successful concerts both at home and abroad. At that time she also found an interest in contemporary music and has worked with the likes of Petr Eben\, Svatopluk Havelka and others. After her studies she performed mainly in Germany\, but the demand for her talent also grew rapidly in other countries (England\, Italy\, Denmark\, Sweden\, France\, Switzerland\, Poland). She worked with many different ensembles (e.g. Orpheon Consort\, Johann-Rosenmüller-Ensemble\, Schütz-Akademie\, Capella Sagittariana\, Dresdener Barockorchester\, Lautten-Compagney\, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman\, Joshua Rifkin\, Frieder Bernius\, Thomas Hengelbrock\, Florian Heyerick\, Vojtěch Spurný and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupová was a regular participant in the concert programmes of the State Opera in Berlin and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among the most interesting opera productions that she took part in during her German period\, a mention should be made of Monteverdi’s Orfeo headed by Joshua Rifkin in Basel\, Freiburg and Mulhouse (the roles of Musica and Proserpine)\, of the modern premiere of H.I.F. Biber’s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD)\, but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals\, including Tage der alten Musik Herne\, Pražské jaro (Prague Spring)\, Festival de musique baroque Caen\, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht\, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae\, to name a few. \n\n\n\nIrena’s early music projects over recent years include programmes in cooperation with the Comic Opera (Berlin)\, German radio NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) and Belgian conductor Florian Heyerik (Salto vocale – fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann)\, with Musica Florea (operatic projects – Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza\, G. F. Händel: Terpsicore)\, Ensemble Tourbillon\, Barbara M. Willi\, Jaroslav Tůma\, Monika Knoblochová\, Petra Matějová and others. More recently\, she has been working closely with the international ensemble Orpheon; they have toured Spain\, Austria and France together and have also recorded an album\, Marin Marais and his friends. She has collaborated with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin\, joining in a fascinating project connecting the musicality of the Baroque with that of the Modern: Musik im Dialog – Claudio Monteverdi und Luciano Berio\, a concert cycle in the State Opera in Berlin which was followed by a programme from the works of J. S. Bach\, Bach – reloaded. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová has gradually extended her scope to include Romantic and Modern lyrical and operatic works. She has performed songs from German and French Romanticism a number of times at the concerts of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic (the early songs of Gustav Mahler). She has also given voice to Jan Dušek’s orchestral songs Chalomet yehudi’im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Miloš Štědroň for Czech Radio. \n\n\n\nLately\, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martinů’s opera Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) for Arco Diva. She has performed the works of Marek Kopelent (the Singspiel Musica\, the cantata Agnus Dei at Prague Spring 2012) – she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hrůša to render the premiere of Kopelent’s Pozdní sběr (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors – Viktor Ullmann\, Erwin Schulhoff\, Norbert von Hannenheim\, Philip Herschkowitz – performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupová is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music\, teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno\, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad. She is a co-founder of the Lieder Company association. \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová is a co-founder of the Lieder Company. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.troupova.com \n\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\n\n\n\nIn his early youth Ondřej Holub went through Kühn’s children’s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys’ choir\, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pištěcká\, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Jiří Kotouč. \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been collaborating with the internationally renowned Collegium 1704\, where he performs as a soloist as a soloist and ensemble singer\, he also regularly collaborates with Ensemble Damian\, a historically informed interpretation of Baroque opera. As a soloist he regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK\, Hradec Králové Philharmonic\, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic\, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis\, Collegium Marianum\, Cappella Mariana\, Ensemble Inégal\, Czech Ensemble Baroque\, Victoria Ensemble\, Musica Florea\, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals. \n\n\n\nFrom 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martinů Voices\, which ranks among the elite performers of 20th and 21st century music. In 2007\, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes choir\, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington\, DC. He also occasionally collaborates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir\, with whom he performed Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. \n\n\n\n\nLydie Härtelová – harp\n\n\n\n\nLydia Härtelová\, solo harpist of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra\, first took up piano as a child (she participated in the Concertino Praga competition as a pianist)\, and from the age of 14 she took up the harp. Here She studied harp at the Prague Conservatory with prof. Libuše Váchalová and at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts with doc. Karel Patras. While still a student she was engaged in the Musica Bohemica ensemble\, then she worked for a season and a half as a solo harpist at the Smetana Theatre (State Opera) in Prague\, before being accepted by the Czechoslovak (now Czech) Radio Symphony Orchestra following a successful audition. Prague. She recorded seventy solo and chamber recordings for the Czech Radio (e.g. concertos by W. A. Mozart\, J. G. Albrechtsberger\, C. Reinecke\, R. M. Glier\, A. Mosolov\, F. Martin\, P. Hindemith\, Z. Lukáš\, Jar. Krčka\, M. Malecki\, Debussy’s Dances)\, she has also recorded for Radio Munich and for the music publishers Supraphon\, Panton\, ECM\, Ligia digital\, MusicVars\, Navona Records and NP Records. \n\n\n\nSince 2012 he has been teaching harp at the Prague Conservatory. She has been invited to join the juries of harp competitions. In 2019 she was the chair of the international jury of the Concertino Praga radio competition.  \n\n\n\nShe is a member of the chamber ensembles Trio cantabile and Trigonum musicum. \n\n\n\nhttp://www.hartelova.cz/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue:
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/songs-tuned-to-harp/
LOCATION:Salsita Club\, Štefánikova 25\, Praha 5\, 15000\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230305T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230305T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20221230T123350Z
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SUMMARY:Opera Masters' Songs – Sibera & Hrochová & Dušek
DESCRIPTION:Programme: \n\n\n\nSelected songs and cycles by Giuseppe Verdi\, Vincenzo Bellini\, Richard Wagner\, and Giacomo Puccini. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera – soprano\n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzo-soprano\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are composers we have inherently associated with a certain genre. Some of them are linked to opera in this way and their other works are often overlooked. For this concert\, the Lieder Company Prague has chosen works by these masters\, who\, thanks to their relationship with singing\, were also concerned with art song genre in their work. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition\, 2023 marks the 210th anniversary of the birth of such composers: Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) and Richard Wagner (1813–1883)\, as well as the slightly less significant anniversary of Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924). The song works of all of the above are certainly worthy of attention. In addition\, this concert will be performed by soloists from the National Theatres in Prague and Brno\, which undoubtedly promises an exceptional evening. Soprano Jana Sibera has been recently awarded by the Thalia Award for 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe songs will be performed in the originals and accompanied by Czech subtitles.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/opera-masters-songs-sibera-hrochova-dusek/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230205T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20230104T103311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T195752Z
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SUMMARY:Benefit Concert for Itibo – Sibera & Holub & Červinek & Janál & Dušek
DESCRIPTION:The Lieder Company Prague in cooperation with Salsita decided to support meaningful charity projects through regular benefit concerts. For their February concert they chose the humanitarian project Itibo\, a medical facility in the south-western part of Kenya\, which operates under the auspices of the non-governmental humanitarian organization ADRA\, o.p.s. \n\n\n\nThe concert will feature members of the Lieder Company in a program consisting of classical and romantic repertoire\, not just songs. The evening will be moderated by Radka Fidlerová and Milan Lukáš Šnajdr. \n\n\n\nThe performers perform without remuneration\, the proceeds of the concert will be donated to the aforementioned Itibo project. \n\n\n\nThe concert will be followed by a screening of the HBO film Far Beyond the Sun with the participation of director Olga Malířová Špátová. \n\n\n\nThe concert will take place in the unconventional space of Club Salsita in Prague’s Smíchov district. \n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\n\nJana Sibera – soprano\n\n\n\nOndřej Holub – tenor\n\n\n\nRobin Červinek – baritone\n\n\n\nRoman Janál – baritone\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\n\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart\n\n\n\nFranz Schubert\n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák\n\n\n\nJacques Ibert
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/benefit-concert-for-itibo/
LOCATION:Salsita Club\, Štefánikova 25\, Praha 5\, 15000\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230119T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20221230T142203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T150444Z
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SUMMARY:Schließe Deine Augen zu | Close Your Eyes  –  Troupová & Dušek
DESCRIPTION:Music of Persecuted Composers  \n\n\n\nThe third installment of the series of musical stops for the exhibition project Sacred Art in Unholy Times. Irena Troupová\, a leading Czech soprano of international renown\, will present\, accompanied by Jan Dušek on the piano\, works by composers such as Pavel Haas\, Viktor Ullmann\, Ervin Schulhoff and Hans Winterberg\, whose lives and works were cruelly marked or even ended by Nazi racial persecution. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: Wendla im Garten \n\n\n\nErvin Schulhoff: Lieder nach Gedichten aus “Die Garbe” von H. Steiger op. 2 (Auswahl) \n\n\n\nPavel Haas: Suite für Klavier\, op. 13\n\n\n\nHans Winterberg: Drei Lieder nach Texten von Franz Werfel\n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: III. Klaviersonate Op. 26 \n\n\n\nViktor Ullmann: Drei Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen op. 29\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/schliese-deine-augen-zu-close-your-eyes-troupova-dusek/
LOCATION:Archdiocesan Museum Olomouc\, Václavské náměstí 4\, Olomouc\, 771 11\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230117T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20230117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20221212T144742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T144500Z
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SUMMARY:The Depths of Romanticism Songs - Uramová & Kosar & Dušek
DESCRIPTION:Atrium in cooperation with Lieder Company would like to invite you to an extraordinary concert of song cycles.Ester Kosar (mezzo-soprano) and Nikola Uramová (soprano) together with pianist Jan Dušek will delight you with the charm of European romantic authors. They will try to introduce you to the genre of song as one of the basic musical expressions\, which nowadays is often overshadowed by the popularity and drama of opera\, popular singing and electronic music. \n\n\n\nA trio of musicians strive to make English\, Czech\, Spanish and German songs as authentic as possible\, with an attempt to highlight the importance of folklore and the subsequent evolution to the complexity of modern music. \n\n\n\nWith piano accompaniment by Jan Dušek\, Ester Kosar will introduce you to the less frequently performed in the Czech Republic cycles Sea pictures by Edward Elgar\, Seven Spanish folk songs (7 Canciones populares Españolas) by Manuel de Falla and the cycle Five poems for female voice (Wesendonck Lieder) by Richard Wagner. Nikola Uramová will sing Dvořák’s famous Gypsy melodies and with her ringing voice she will also lead the audience into the extraordinary world of Richard Strauss’ songs. \n\n\n\nCome and tune in to the playful and tender strings. After all\, it is the very nature of singing with piano that evokes a very intimate experience for both performers and listeners. \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\n\nEdward Elgar: Sea Pictures\, op. 37\n\n\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Cigánské melodie\, op. 55\n\n\n\nManuel de Falla: 7 Canciones populares Españolas\n\n\n\nRichard Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder\, WWV 91\n\n\n\nRichard Strauss: 4 Lieder\, Op.27\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\n\nNikola Uramová – soprano\n\n\n\nEster Kosar – mezzosoprano\n\n\n\nJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe compositions will be performed in the original language and accompanied by Czech subtitles.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/the-depths-of-romanticism-songs-uramova-kosar-dusek/
LOCATION:Atrium na Žižkově\, Čajkovského 12a\, Praha 3\, 13000\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221211T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221211T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T210535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T144405Z
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SUMMARY:Love's Pleasure and Sorrow (Troupová & Matějová)
DESCRIPTION:For this very intimate concert in December we have chosen songs and canzonettas by the important Czech composers of the Classical and early Romantic periods\, Jiří Antonín Benda (300 years since his birth) and Jan Ladislav Dusík (210 years since his death). The concert will be complemented by Canzonettas by Franz Joseph Haydn\, whose birth 290 years ago is being commemorated this year. Both performers (soprano Irena Troupová and pianist Petra Matějová) are respected specialists in historical interpretation\, which\, in conjunction with the beautiful space of the Respirium at Liechtenstein Palace\, the hammerklavier and the beautiful songs\, presents an ideal constellation. \n\n\n\nAttention\, the concert starts at 18h due to technical reasons! \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\n\nFranz Joseph Haydn: VI Original Canzonettas \n\n\n\nJiří Antonín Benda: Rondeaux und Lieder \n\n\n\nJan Ladislav Dusík: Sei Canzonette op. 52 \n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\n\n\n\nPetra Matějová – hammerklavier\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe compositions will be performed in the original languages and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/111222-loves-pleasure-and-sorrow/
LOCATION:Lichtenštejnský palác – Respirium\, Malostranské nám. 13\, Praha 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221113T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T193902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T161708Z
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SUMMARY:Under the Czech Sky (Troupová & Hilscherová & Janál & Stehlík & Dušek)
DESCRIPTION:Just a few days before the national holiday we present a concert of Czech composers on folk poetry texts and important Czech poets Jaroslav Seifert and Vítězslav Nezval. \n\n\n\nThe whole concert is all the more solemn because the performance of works by all of the featured composers will commemorate their important anniversaries this year. K. B. Jirák and P. Bořkovec both 50 years since their deaths\, E. Schulhoff 80 years since his death\, O. Mácha and Ilja Hurník both 100 years since their birth. \n\n\n\nThe soloists of the evening will be leading singers: soprano Irena Troupová\, mezzo-soprano Lucie Hilscherová and baritone Roman Janál\, who systematically devote themselves to the interpretation of lesser-known Czech music. Two sought-after pianists\, Bohumír Stehlík and Jan Dušek\, will sit at the piano. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nKarel Boleslav Jirák: RokPavel Bořkovec: Sedm písní na básně Vítězslava NezvalaErwin Schulhoff: Národní písně a tance z TěšínskaOtmar Mácha: Zpěv horňáckaIlja Hurník: Slezské písně\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – sopranoLucie Hilscherová – mezzosopranoRoman Janál – baritoneBohumír Stehlík – pianoJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/131122-under-the-czech-sky/
LOCATION:Liechtenstein Palace – Martinů Hall\, Malostranské nám. 13 13\, Prague 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221016T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20221016T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T193034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T215549Z
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SUMMARY:In the Intoxicating Glow of the Moon (Troupová & Šembera & Louženský et al.)
DESCRIPTION:On 16 October 1912\, a major work of the 20th century was premiered in Berlin: the Pierrot Lunaire cycle by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. We will perform it on the day exactly 110 years later and complement the concert with a cycle by Alexander Zemlinsky\, a friend and great promoter of Schoenberg’s music. \n\n\n\nFor this concert\, we have also commissioned a new piece for the identical instrumentation as Pierrot Lunaire\, but with a male voice\, by the young Czech composer and award-winning baritone Vojtěch Šembera\, who will sing it himself in the premiere. The solo part in the works of A. Schönberg and A. Zemlinsky will be taken by the renowned interpreter of 20th century music\, soprano Irena Troupová\, who will be accompanied by leading Czech instrumentalists under the direction of conductor Petr Louženský. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nAlexandr Zemlinsky: Sechs Lieder op. 22Vojtěch Šembera: Commissioned piece (premiere)Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire op. 21\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – sopranoVojtěch Šembera – baritonePetr Louženský – conductorDaniel Havel – fluteJan Mach – clarinetDavid Danel – violin / violaBalázs Adorján – violoncelloJan Dušek – piano\n\n\nThe works will be performed in German and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/161022-in-the-intoxicating-glow-of-the-moon/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220918T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T192314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T161132Z
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SUMMARY:Known Unknowns (Hrochová & Červinek & Stehlík)
DESCRIPTION:Many composers constantly surprise us with their works. Many of them are familiar to us\, but there are certainly forgotten gems waiting to be discovered. The songs of this year’s jubilarians Igor Stravinsky (140th anniversary of his birth)\, Arthur Honegger (130th anniversary of his birth)\, Darius Milhaud (130th anniversary of his birth) or Zoltán Kodály (140th anniversary of his birth) are undoubtedly such pearls\, even though they will probably surprise you in connection with their names. \n\n\n\nThe protagonists of this concert\, mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochová and young baritone Robin Červinek\, are among the most sought-after song performers\, which certainly promises an unforgettable experience. They will be joined by other instrumentalists in the songs of Igor Stravinsky. The piano parts will be performed by the award-winning pianist Bohumír Stehlík. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nIgor Stravinsky: Three Songs from WIlliam Shakespeare; Berceuses du chatArthur Honegger: 6 poésies; Quattre PoemsDarius Milhaud: Poëmes JuifsZoltán Kodály: Öt dal\, op. 5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nJana Hrochová – mezzosopranoRobin Červinek – baritoneBohumír Stehlík – pianoMartin Klimánek – fluteVít Kubík – violaKateřina Soukalová Váchová – clarinetLuděk Boura – clarinetJan Pařík – clarinet\n\n\n\n\n\nThe compositions will be performed in the original and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/180922-known-unknowns/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220626T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220626T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T191504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T131827Z
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SUMMARY:With a Taste of France (Troupová & Hrochová & Dušek)
DESCRIPTION:France and its culture have influenced many artists\, writers and composers. In this concert\, we will present six works for which their authors found inspiration in French literature – Renaissance\, contemporary or even cookery. For this concert\, a new work has also been commissioned from the young Czech composer Pavel Duda on a text by the composer Eric Satie\, which will be given its world premiere. A piece by the Romanian living composer Adrian Pop will be performed in the Czech premiere. \n\n\n\nThese impressive\, French-esque and witty songs will be performed by leading Czech singers Irena Troupová and Jana Hrochová\, for whom songwriting is their heart’s business. Jan Dušek will play the piano parts. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nBohuslav Martinů: Tři písně na AppollinairaViktor Ullmann: Sonnets de Louise LabéLeonard Bernstein: La bonne cuisineHanuš Bartoň: 5 písní na Suzanne RenaudAdrian Pop: Sept fragments de Tristan Tzara (Czech premiere)Pavel Duda: Commissioned piece (premiere)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – sopranoJana Hrochová – mezzosopranoJan Dušek – piano\n\n\nThe pieces will be performed in Czech or in French and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/260622-with-a-taste-of-france/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220605T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220605T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T190432Z
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SUMMARY:In Colours of France (Sibera & Janál & Košárek)
DESCRIPTION:This year we are commemorating several anniversaries of French composers – including 200 years since the birth of César Franck\, 160 years since the birth of Claude Debussy and 60 years since the death of Jacques Ibert. \n\n\n\nWe have therefore decided to compile an evening of their songs and entrust them to the best Czech interpreters: soprano Jana Sibera and baritone Roman Janál will perform together with the excellent pianist Karel Košárek. \n\n\n\nCésar Franck’s song output does not represent any complete cycles\, only individual songs. They are rarely performed on concert stages\, not only in this country\, so we present a selection of the most impressive ones. We also rarely think of Claude Debussy as a song composer\, even though his legacy in this field is extremely rich. This concert will feature his culminating two-part song cycle set to Paul Verlaine’s poems\, Fêtes Galantes. The lesser performed but very interesting French composer Jacques Ibert will be represented by two of his quite contrasting song cycles. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nCésar Franck: MélodiesClaude Debussy: Fêtes Galantes I & IIJacques Ibert: Chansons de Don Quichotte; Deux Chansons de Melpoméne\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nJana Sibera – sopranoRoman Janál – baritoneKarel Košárek – piano\n\n\nThe works will be performed French and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/050622-in-colours-of-france/
LOCATION:Profesní dům – Aula (Refektář)\, Malostranské nám. 25\, Praha 1\, 11800\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220508T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220508T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20220405T185319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T131537Z
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SUMMARY:The Song of Love and Death (Troupová & Červinek & Dušek)
DESCRIPTION:The rarely performed extensive song cycle Harawi\, a key work by the French composer Olivier Messiaen\, whose death 30 years ago is commemorated this year\, will be performed by soprano Irena Troupová alongside pianist Jan Dušek. Both are among the most respected interpreters of 20th century music\, which promises an extraordinary musical experience. \n\n\n\nThe evening will be completed by the young baritone Robin Červinek\, who has won many awards\, in works by Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupré – both teachers of Olivier Messiaen. Their work\, not only their songs\, is almost unknown to the Czech audience\, and the songs will most likely be presented in Prague for the very first time. \n\n\n\n\n\nProgramme: \n\n\n\nOlivier Messiaen: HarawiPaul Dukas: Sonnet de Ronsard (Amours)Marcel Dupré: A l´amie perdue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers: \n\n\n\nIrena Troupová – sopranoRobin Červinek – baritoneJan Dušek – piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe works will be performed in French and accompanied by Czech subtitles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Concert Season 2022 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture Mgr. Martin Baxa and council member of the capital city of Prague MgA. Hana Třeštíková.
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/080522-the-song-of-love-and-death/
LOCATION:Novoměstská radnice\, Karlovo nám. 1\, Praha 2\, 120 00\, Česká republika
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220427T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20220427T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T100746
CREATED:20211217T095540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T203010Z
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SUMMARY:V. J. TOMÁŠEK - LENORA (Troupová & Matějová)
DESCRIPTION:Tomáškova a Novákova hudební Skuteč \n\nSongs and ballads by Václav Jan Tomášek. \n\nIrena Troupová – soprano\, Petra Matějová – hammerklavier
URL:https://liedercompany.cz/en/event/v-j-tomasek-lenora-troupova-matejova/
LOCATION:Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie Skuteč\, Tyršova 1\, Skuteč\, 539 73\, Česká republika
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