Musica Poetica (CZ)
The Baroque chamber ensemble Musica Poetica, established in 1999, is a group of professional musicians sharing an interest in authentic performance of early music. The concerts of Musica Poetica have always been arranged as encounters between Baroque music and poetry, with a view to rediscovering the complex interplay between music and spoken word in Baroque musical literature. Its musicians use modern copies of period instruments (harpsichord, viol, baroque traverso, baroque violin). In addition to concerts in Czech Republic as well as abroad, the ensemble does not shy away from less conventional projects (the performances ‘Händel in Italy’ or Benda´s “Pygmalion”). In a long-term cycle ‘Baroque of European Countries’, Musica Poetica has so far presented music and poetry of 9 European nations. The goal of the ensemble is to offer its audience a glimpse of the atmosphere and thinking familiar to people of the Baroque period, from which one can still draw inspiration today.
Jana Janků (mezzo-soprano) has degrees from the Academy of Early Music and from the College of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (in Musicology). She has participated in numerous master courses under the direction of Europe's finest musicians (Barbara Schlick, Roberto Gini, Evelyn Tubb etc). She has sung leading roles in a number of Baroque operas, (Purcell's Dido a Aeneas, E. de Cavalieri's Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo etc.). She has been regular member of the opera ensemble of both the National Theater in Prague and the National Theater in Brno. Jana Janků has also performed with the Czech orchestras (Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra) and with conductors such as T. Netopil or R. Štúr. She is a founding member of the ensemble Musica Poetica (as well as its Programme director) and frequently appears with other Czech ensembles devoted to early music, as well as with the Opera Diversa, an ensemble pursuing contemporary music.
Martin Flašar studied violin at the Brno Conservatory and musicology at the Institute of Musicology, Masaryk University. He graduated in the year. 2010 and a doctorate in 2012 rigorous examination. He currently works as a lecturer at the same place. Since 2003, he dedicated in addition jazz and contemporary music also interpreted early music, first as a member of Capella Academica later Hofmusici Český Krumlov. Baroque violins studied briefly at Elen Machová and Jana Spáčilová, later in courses of early music with Catherine Mackintosh and Peter Zajíček. It cooperates with other ensembles of early music (Musica Figuralis, Ensemble Damian, and Czech Baroque Ensemble).
Lucie Lukášová (traverso) is a graduate of the Brno Conservatory, where she studied traverso, and of the College of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno (musicology, bohemistics), where she finished her postgraduate studies of musicology in 2008. Her interest in baroque music led her to the baroque flute and she began to study traverso under the guidance of Andreas Kröper. She participates in numerous master courses taught by highly esteemed European performers (Nancy Hadden, Ashley Solomon, Wilbert Hazelzet, Peter Holtslag, Thijs van Baarsel, Andreas Kröper). In 2002, Lucie performed at student concerts during the Brežice Festival, Slovenia, and in 2003 at the opening concert of the festival. Lucie also collaborates with other ensembles specialized in the interpretation of early music; she has also cooperated with alternative theatre groups. Currently, Lucie teaches History of Music and Czech at the Brno Conservatory, where she also leads the class of the interpretation of baroque music.
Kateřina Stávková (viola da gamba) graduated from an elementary school of music in Brno, where she studied violoncello, and subsequently concentrated on playing viola da gamba. She has taken part in various courses and international seminars dealing with interpretation of early music; her former tutors include Jonathann Manson, Irmtraut Hubatschek, Peter Krivda, José Vásquez, and Richerd Boothby. In 2004 Kateřina Stávková received a degree from the Academy of Early Music in Brno, where she studied viola da gamba under the direction of Lucie Krommer. She is a member of the ensembles Musica Poetica and Collegium pro arte antiqua, and occasionally appears also with various other early music groups.
Kamila Dubská (harpsichord) graduated at the Brno Conservatory in organ class of Zdeněk Nováček, and completed her master’s degree in harpsichord at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno with Barbara Maria Willi. In 2010, she undertook studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, with Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot. Kamila has attended number of courses (Academie de Sablé Prague, Summer School of Early Music Prachatice) and classes with pedagogues as Jacques Ogg, Sasha Zamler-Carhart, Corina Marti, Patrick Ayrton, Francois Langelé, James Johnston, Ashley Solomon, Reiko Ichise, Berndhard Klapprott, Václav Luks, Marek Štryncl, Jesper Christensen, Miklós Spányi, and others. Kamila collaborates with ensembles Musica Poetica and others (Motus harmonicus, Ensemble Serpens Cantat). Her current activities include chamber music, teaching, and concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad.
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