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TROUPOV\u00c1 & HROCHOV\u00c1 & GRAFFE QUARTET<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert will include the world premiere of a composition by Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdro\u0148<\/strong> composed for soprano Irena Troupov\u00e1 and mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochov\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the concert we have also commissioned a piece by the Czech female composer Terezie \u0160varcov\u00e1<\/strong>, which we will also perform in its world premiere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will also be wonderful works by Ottorino Respighi<\/strong>, Viktor Ullmann<\/strong> and Paul Hindemith<\/strong>, which were also composed for this setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compositions will be presented in the original languages and accompanied by Czech subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto <\/em>for voice and string quartet<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paul Hindemith: Melancholie, Op.13 <\/em>for voice and string quartet<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Ullmann: Three Songs <\/em>for voice and string trio<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdro\u0148: Cantigas y Estampidas <\/em>for two female voices and string quartet <\/em>\/PREMIERE\/<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Terezie \u0160varcov\u00e1: Vier Gedichte von Christian Morgenstern <\/em><\/em>for two female voices and string quartet <\/em>\/PREMIERE\/<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Irena Troupov\u00e1 – soprano<\/div><\/summary>
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The eminent Czech soprano Irena Troupov\u00e1<\/strong> 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 Blumov\u00e1 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-Rosenm\u00fcller-Ensemble, Sch\u00fctz-Akademie, Capella Sagittariana, Dresdener Barockorchester, Lautten-Compagney, Kievskaya Kamerata) and conductors (Howard Arman, Joshua Rifkin, Frieder Bernius, Thomas Hengelbrock, Florian Heyerick, Vojt\u011bch Spurn\u00fd and others). This cooperation brought about a number of recordings. Irena Troupov\u00e1 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\u2019s 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\u2019s opera Arminius in Salzburg (later released on CD), but also of Le malade imaginaire of M.-A. Charpentier and J.-B. Lully in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irena Troupov\u00e1 is a frequent guest singer at international music festivals, including Tage der alten Musik Herne, Pra\u017esk\u00e9 jaro (Prague Spring), Festival de musique baroque Caen, Holland-festival oudemuziek Utrecht, Bach-Festival Sumy and Concenturs Moraviae<\/em>, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irena\u2019s 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 \u2013 fragments from the operas of G. Ph. Telemann), with Musica Florea (operatic projects \u2013 Ch. W. Gluck: La Danza, G. F. H\u00e4ndel: Terpsicore), Ensemble Tourbillon, Barbara M. Willi, Jaroslav T\u016fma, Monika Knoblochov\u00e1, Petra Mat\u011bjov\u00e1 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 reloaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irena Troupov\u00e1 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 Du\u0161ek\u2019s orchestral songs Chalomot yehudi\u2019im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdro\u0148 for Czech Radio.\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, she has focused her attention on the music of the 20th and 21st century; she recorded Bohuslav Martin\u016f\u2019s opera Le jour de bont\u00e9 (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) \u2013 she joined the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a to render the premiere of Kopelent\u2019s Pozdn\u00ed sb\u011br (Late Harvest). She is also actively interested in the music of interwar authors \u2013 Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, Norbert von Hannenheim, Philip Herschkowitz \u2013 performing their works to international audiences and recording a number of their compositions for Czech Radio and Deutschlandfunk. Irena Troupov\u00e1 is also greatly valued as a tutor of early music, teaching at the Jan\u00e1\u010dek Academy of Music and Performing Arts and Masaryk University in Brno, and in courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irena Troupov\u00e1 is a co-founder of the Lieder Company Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.troupova.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

Jana Hrochov\u00e1 – mezzo-soprano<\/div><\/summary>
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The mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochov\u00e1<\/strong> (Wallingerov\u00e1), n\u00e9e \u0160tef\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1, gained her first singing experience in a children\u2019s choir in the Moravian town of \u0160umperk. She studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jarmila Kr\u00e1sov\u00e1 from 1993 to 1999. In 2001, she began studying privately with the soprano Natalia Romanov\u00e1. 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 Hrochov\u00e1 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), H\u00e4nsel (H\u00e4nsel 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, Plze\u0148, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem, Liberec, Ostrava, Olomouc (Czech Republic), State Theatre Ko\u0161ice (Slovakia) and Theatre Freiburg (Germany). Mrs Hrochov\u00e1\u2019s 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, Jan\u00e1\u010dek Philharmonic Orchestra, Bohuslav Martin\u016f Philharmonic Orchestra and others. She works with conductors such as Ji\u0159\u00ed B\u011blohl\u00e1vek, Serge Baudo, Gerd Albrecht, Manfred Honeck, Ondrej Len\u00e1rd, Petr Altrichter, Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a, Leo\u0161 Sv\u00e1rovsk\u00fd, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hanus, Andrej Borejko, Dennis Russell Davies and others. Mrs Hrochov\u00e1  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\u2019s 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 Dulcin\u00e9e in Massenet\u2019s Don Quichotte in a production of the F. X. \u0160alda Theatre in Liberec. In 2013, she was nominated for the Thalia award for her role as Hermia in Britten\u2019s Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream in a production of The Brno National Theatre. In 2011 and 2018 she recorded songs by Bohuslav Martin\u016f 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Graffe Quartet<\/div><\/summary>
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The Graffe Quartet<\/strong> 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 Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek Foundation Prize (2001, 2003) for its interpretation of Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek’s quartets. In 2005, the quartet won the special prize of the French association “Forum Voix Etouff\u00e9s” 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their studies, members of the Jan\u00e1\u010dek Quartet (especially Prof. Adolf S\u00fdkora) 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 G\u00fcnter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet, Vienna), Norbert Brainin and Siegmund Nissel (Amadeus Quartet, London), L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Mez\u00f6 (Bart\u00f3k Quartet, Budapest), Milan \u0160kampa (Smetana Quartet, Prague) and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Graffe Quartet has performed on hundreds of concert stages on three continents as part of major concert series (Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Hall, Prague Rudolfinum, Czech Chamber Music Society; Besedn\u00ed d\u016fm 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, Jan\u00e1\u010dek Brno, Concentus Moravia, Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 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 \u010cechov\u00e1-piano, Igor Arda\u0161ev-piano, Jan Jirask\u00fd-piano, Bohuslav Matou\u0161ek-viola, Josef \u0160pa\u010dek-violin, viola, Kristina Fialov\u00e1-viola, Ji\u0159\u00ed B\u00e1rta-violoncello, Petr Nouzovsk\u00fd-violoncello, James Campbell-clarinet (Kandada), Irvin Veny\u0161-clarinet, Vlastimil Mare\u0161-clarinet, Pra\u017e\u00e1k 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 Molavcov\u00e1, Maria Durnova, Lubom\u00edra Sonkov\u00e1, Alfred Strej\u010dek, Jan Ka\u010der, Josef Somr, Vladim\u00edr Kr\u00e1tk\u00fd, Franti\u0161ek Derfler, Sasha Ra\u0161ilov, Michal Bumb\u00e1lek, Otakar Brousek Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 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 Martin\u016f, Andr\u00e9 Previn, Werner Schulz, Ji\u0159\u00ed Pavlica, Milan Slim\u00e1\u010dek, Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdron, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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