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The closing concert of this year\u2019s Ullmann Festival takes us back to our roots \u2013 both to the place where the festival originated and to Viktor Ullmann\u2019s birthplace. The synagogue in \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn, which has already hosted a number of festival concerts, will once again resound with a purely song program under the eloquent title \u201cTheir Music Lives On.\u201d This program will include works by composers who, like Ullmann, did not survive Nazi persecution, as well as by two contemporary composers inspired by the fate of persecuted artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erwin Schulhoff <\/strong>and Viktor Ullmann<\/strong>, both Jews, became victims of the Holocaust (albeit under different circumstances), while Karl Horwitz<\/strong>, also a Jewish composer from Vienna, was \u201cspared\u201d this fate only because he died in 1925 as a result of a serious illness\u2026 His song cycle, recently discovered by Irena Troupov\u00e1 and to be performed in its Czech premiere at the concert, will be the first dramaturgical surprise of the evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Rudolf Karel<\/strong> was not of Jewish origin, as a participant in the anti-Nazi resistance in Czechoslovakia, he was first imprisoned for almost two years in Pankr\u00e1c, and then transferred to the Small Fortress in Terez\u00edn, where he died in March 1945 as a result of physical exhaustion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To a certain extent, the French poet and resistance fighter Robert Desnos shared a similar fate with Karel. His verses were set to music by the prominent contemporary Czech composer Sylva Smejkalov\u00e1<\/strong>. After imprisonment in France and Germany, Desnos was also transported to Terez\u00edn at the end of the war. He lived to see its liberation in May 1945, but died a month later as a result of typhoid fever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The closing concert of the ULLMANN FESTIVAL<\/strong> will also feature a world premiere: commissioned by the festival, composer Jan Du\u0161ek<\/strong> created a song cycle for two voices and piano based on poems by Old\u0159ich B\u00f6hm (1906\u20131944), yet another of the countless and hitherto unknown victims of the Holocaust in the Bohemian lands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): Five Songs, Op. 32<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jan Du\u0161ek (*1985) \u2013 Three Sorrowful Songs for sopran, tenor and piano (after poems by Old\u0159ich B\u00f6hm) \u2013 composition commissioned by the festival\u00a0(world premiere)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Karl Horwitz (1884-1925): Six Poems, Op. 4 (Czech premiere)<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rudolf Karel (1880-1945): In the Glow of the Hellenic Sun, Op. 24<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sylva Smejkalov\u00e1 (*1974): A la faveur de la nuit (based on texts by Robert Desnos)<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Viktor Ullmann: Five Love Songs by Ricarda Huch, Op. 2<\/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, 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 Chalomet yehudi\u2019im together with Orchestra BERG for the EBU and the songs of Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdro\u0148 for Czech Radio.<\/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

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

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

Ond\u0159ej Holub – tenor<\/div><\/summary>
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In his early youth\u00a0Ond\u0159ej Holub<\/strong>\u00a0went through K\u00fchn\u2019s children\u2019s choir and the Pueri gaudentes boys\u2019 choir, thanks to which he became a child soloist of the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart\u2019s The Magic Flute. He studied classical singing privately with Prof. Lenka Pi\u0161t\u011bck\u00e1, while studying at the Prague Conservatory with Prof. Valentin Prolat and later developed his singing skills with Prof. Ji\u0159\u00ed Kotou\u010d.<\/p>\n\n

Since 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 Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 Philharmonic, South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, etc. He is also an ensemble singer with most of the leading domestic early music ensembles \u2013 Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, Collegium Marianum, Cappella Mariana, Ensemble In\u00e9gal, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Victoria Ensemble, Musica Florea, with whom he regularly participates in prestigious domestic and international festivals.<\/p>\n\n

From 2013-2019 he was a member of the vocal ensemble Martin\u016f 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\u2019s Symphony No. 2 at New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall on the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Jan Du\u0161ek – piano<\/div><\/summary>
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Jan Du\u0161ek 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 Du\u0161ek 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 Jo\u00e3o 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\u00a0 recording of complete piano works by Rudolf Karel. In 2015 he released a CD of complete songs for soprano and piano by Viktor Ullmann<\/a> with soprano Irena Troupova. In 2021, they released complete songs by Hans Winterberg<\/a>. He regularly performs at international music festivals (Prague Spring, V\u011b\u010dn\u00e1 nad\u011bje, Junge Kunstler Beyreuth etc.).<\/p>\n\n

In 2006 he was awarded the first prize at the Composers Competition \u201cGeneration\u201c for the piece \u201c\u2026 in seven days I will send rain on the Earth \u2026\u201d, and in 2007 at the same competition he again won first prize for the composition \u201cGradation for organ.\u201d In 2008 he received the \u2018Audience\u2019s Prize\u2019 for the composition \u201cChalomot jehudi\u2019im\u201d, a year later receiving the Prize of Gideon Klein for the same composition. In 2010, his melodrama \u201cPrague Walker\u201d 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 \u201cThe Child of the Ghetto\u201d, Jan received the \u2018Audience\u2019s Prize\u2019 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 \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn, Prague Spring Competition etc.), and performed by leading Czech soloists (such as clarinettist Irvin Veny\u0161 and the percussionist Mark\u00e9ta Mazourov\u00e1) 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<\/p>\n\n

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