Ensemble Pampinea (CH)

The musicians comprising Ensemble Pampinea, Fiona Kizzie Lee, Maruša Brezavšček and Vojtěch Jakl, are prize winners in the early music scene. They met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where they had the opportunity to explore the extensive repertoire of medieval music and to learn about the possibilities of a colourful arrangement using various historical instruments. The trio plays recorder, fiddle, pipe and tabor, double recorder as well as organetto. In November 2022, Ensemble Pampinea won First Prize in the LIFEM (London International Festival for Early Music) competition for young ensembles and has been invited to present a concert there in November 2023. The Ensemble is also one of the four finalist groups selected to play in the competition of Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci in June 2023. In August 2022, the ensemble was invited to perform their programme "Boccaccio's Decameron" in Slovenia, at Muzej občine Šenčur and Cerkev sv. Florijana in Ljubljana.

Maruša Brezavšček is a recorder player and performer on the dulcian and baroque bassoon. She has won numerous prestigious awards - as a recorder player, she received double first prize at TARF 3 in Tel Aviv in 2020 and first prize at the ERPS competition in Graz in 2016. In 2021 she received the Ivan Werner Prize for her artistic achievements as a soloist with orchestra at the Varaždinske barokne večeri festival. Maruša is a co-founder of the ensembles Duo Decima, Ensemble Bastion and Ensemble Pampinea. The latter received first prize in the 2022 London International Festival of Early Music competition. Maruša studied with renowned musicians such as the recorder players Dorothee Oberlinger, Pedro Memelsdorff, Antonio Politano, Han Tol and Andreas Böhlen as well as the bassoonists Carles Cristobal, Donna Agrell and Josep Borras. Maruša received diplomas with distinction at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/Musikakademie Basel and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, completed an Erasmus exchange year at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya and attended "Corso libero - Flauto dolce" at the Conservatorio di Musica Luca Marenzio di Brescia.

Recorder and Keyboard Player Fiona Kizzie Lee specialises in Medieval and Renaissance music and performs as a soloist and co-directs award-winning ensembles in Basel and Hong Kong. She is also a researcher and educator in early music who is frequently invited to talk and speak in academic events. Her ensemble achievements include the first prize of the London Early Music Young Ensemble Competition in November 2022 (with Ensemble Pampinea), finalist and semi-finalist in the International Young Artists Competition in York, England (Ensemble.q.p.i.t., 2019) and the Internationaal Van Wassenaer Concours in Utrecht, Netherlands (Ensemble La Fiamma, 2019). Lee was a Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund scholar in 2016-2017, and holds a Masters in Musicology at King’s College London (2017), a second master’s degree in performance of Medieval Music (2019) and a third Specialised master’s degree in Renaissance Music (2021). She is now reading a Doctorate in Musicology at the University of Zürich.

Vojtěch Jakl studied modern violin at the Prague Conservatory (CZ) with Dagmar Zárubová, Jaroslav Foltýn and Jiří Vodička. After completing a Master’s degree in baroque violin at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno (CZ) with Lenka Torgersen, he is currently completing studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH) with Prof. Amandine Beyer. Vojtěch has taken part in masterclasses led by John Holloway, Lucy van Dael, Ton Koopman, Olivier Schneebeli, Patrick Cohën-Akenine etc. He frequently plays in ensembles such as Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Musica Florea, Czech Ensemble Baroque, and others. He is a founding member of the recently formed Czech B3 Ensemble and Basel based Rýnský Trio. As an ensemble member, he has participated in numerous CD recordings and performed at prestigious festivals and concert halls across Europe, including Bachfest Leipzig, the Prague Spring Festival, Château de Versailles Spectacles, Resonanzen Festival Wien, etc.