8. 10. 2013
Harmonia Moraviae 2013
MOJCA ERDMANN
3.10.2013 at 19.00 hours. Congress Centre - Main Auditorium
Festival Opening Concert
Opera recital
W. A. Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, G. Rossini - The Barber of Seville, V. Bellini - The Capulets and the Montagues, G. Donizetti - Don Pasquale
Soloist: Mojca Erdmann, soprano
Pavol Remenár, baritone
Conductor: Stanislav Vavřínek
Mojca Erdmann is a rising star on the international musical scene. A native of Hamburg, she studied singing and violin at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Despite her youth, she has already made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and has performed at the opera houses in Berlin, Vienna, Baden-Baden, Cologne, Nice and Prague too. She made her first appearance at the Salzburg Festival in 2007, and works frequently with conductors such as Simon Rattle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Manfred Honeck, Kent Nagano, Fabio Luisi and Daniel Harding. Miss Erdmann has recorded several CDs, most recently from 2009 - 2011 with Deutsche Grammophon, featuring arias by Mozart and his contemporaries. In our concert tonight she will be performing with the Slovak baritone Pavolem Remenár, who has been a soloist with the Slovak National Theatre Opera since 2000. At the podium is the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic's Chief Conductor Stanislav Vavřínek.
MUSICA FLOREA
6.10.2013 at 18.00 hours, Kostel Panny Marie Pomocnice křesťanů, Zlín – Jižní Svahy
Johann Sebastian Bach and his Predecessors
Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Vierdanck, Heinrich Schütz and
Dietrich Buxtehude
Musica Florea
Jiří Sycha, 1st violin
Jiřina Štrynclová, 2nd violin
Michal Dušek, viola
Marek Štryncl - artistic director, cello
Ondřej Štajnochr, double bass
Iva Štrynclová, harpsichord
Lucie Rozsnyó, soprano
Musica Florea was founded in 1992 by the cellist and conductor Marek Štryncl as one of the first ensembles in the Czech Republic to focus on stylistically-informed performance of early music. The ensemble appears at a number of important international festivals, working with outstanding soloists and musicians such as Magdaléna Kožená, Philippe Jaroussky, Nancy Argenta, Veronique Gens, Paul Badura-Skoda, Susanne Rydén, the Orlando Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Le Poème Harmonique, and Boni Pueri.
It has received many prestigious honours including the highest award given by the French magazine Diapason for its recording of J.D. Zelenka`s Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis (Studio Matouš, 1994), the 1997 Zlatá Harmonie (Golden Harmony) award for the best Czech recording of the year - arias by J.S. Bach with Magdaléna Kožená, (Polygram, 1997), and the MIDEM 2003 Cannes Classical Award for its recording of J.D. Zelenka`s coronation opera Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis (Supraphon 2001). In 2009 Musica Florea received an award at the Varaždin festival in Croatia for the best interpretation of works by J.S. Bach, and it is music by this, the greatest of Baroque composers and his predecessors that we will hear in this evening's concert.
JIŘÍ PAVLICA
C1 10. 10. 2013 at 19.00 hours, Congress Centre, Main Auditorium
JiříPavlica's 60th Birthday Concert
Music from the repertoire of Hradišťan
J. Pavlica: Brána Poutníků(Pilgrims' Gate) - oratorio
Hradišťan, JiříPavlica - artistic director
Roman Janál – baritone
Žerotín Academic Choir, Pavel Koňárek - choral director
Stanislav Vavřínek - conductor
Jiří Pavlica has been fronting Hradišťan since 1978. His artistic direction and stagecraft techniques have transformed the band, which originally played folk music, into an alternative music group spanning an arc from the folk tradition to the music of today. Hradišťan's music-making is rightly seen as a phenomenon that breaks new ground in Czech culture. In addition to regular concerts in this country and abroad, Jiří Pavlica has made a wealth of recordings based on projects of his own, and writes film and theatre music. His work has won him a number of specialist accolades including gold and and platinum discs for the number of albums sold. He has worked with the Bohuslav MartinůPhilharmonic many times before both at home and abroad, also composing freestyle contemporary pieces, one of which - his Brána poutníků (Pilgrims' Gate) oratorio - we will hear tonight. Written for solo baritone, mixed choir and symphony orchestra, this piece was inspired by the philosopher, saint and man of learning St. Adalbert.
VIVIANA SOFRONITSKY
15. 10. 2013 at 19.00 hours, Congress Centre, Small Auditorium
The Period Keyboard from Classicism to Romanticism
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Josef Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Felix Mendelssohn
Soloist: Viviana Sofronitsky - fortepiano
What did the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn really sound like? The prominent Russo-Canadian pianist and period instrument enthusiast Viviana Sofronitsky will be playing today on a present-day replica of the authentic and still preserved period instrument made by A. Walter in 1792. This replica of Mozart's favourite piano was built by Paul McNulty, the renowned producer of period keyboard instruments. Viviana Sofronitsky, who inherited her talent from her father, the illustrious pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky, studied at the Moscow conservatoire, going on to specialise in authentic period performance at Oberlin in the USA, and at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She has won several competitions, and her recent performance on five different pianos at London's Wigmore Hall was acclaimed by the critics as a revelation. She has recorded all of Mozart's piano concertos on CD, as well as the complete works of Mendelssohn and Chopin for piano and cello together with Sergey Istomin, not to mention solo compositions by Schubert, Chopin and Liszt.
SHARON KAM
A1 17. 10. 2013 at 19.00 hours, Congress Centre
Weber Clarinet Concerto
C. M. von Weber: Oberon, overture
C. M. von Weber: Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet and Orchestra, in F Minor, Op. 73
F. Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
F. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 in A, Op 90, "Italian"
Sharon Kam - clarinet
Vojtěch Spurný– conductor
Talking About Music with Jaromír Javůrek - a pre-concert talk at 18.00 hours in the Congress Centre's Small Auditorium
The opportunity to hear the world-famous clarinettist Sharon Kam is one of the highlights of our festival this year. Born in Israel and now living in Germany, her work ranges from the traditional clarinet repertoire to music of the present day. She made her debut at the age of 16 with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and studied later at the Juilliard School Of Music. She is a winner of the ARD International Competition in Munich and several others. To mark Mozart's 250th birthday, she performed a concert at the Estates Theatre in Prague broadcast live in 33 countries.
Vojtěch Spurný brings his masterful conducting expertise to both traditional classical and contemporary music-making. He studied flute and piano at the Prague Conservatoire, opera production, conducting and harpsichord at the AMU Prague Academy of Music, and interpretation of ancient music and harpsichord at the Hogeschool de Kunsten, Utrecht. Known as an opera conductor, he also works regularly with several leading Czech orchestras, and is intensively involved in concerts featuring period keyboard instruments.
P. MASCAGNI - CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
24. 10. 2013 at 19.00 hours, Congress Centre
Festival Closing Concert
Concert production
Soloists: Olja Dakich, soprano
Sofi Koberidze, mezzo-soprano
Francesco Grollo, tenor
Christopher Robertson, baritone
Featuring: Janáček Opera Choir - National Theatre Brno, Choral Director - Josef Pančík
Conductor: Walter Attanasi
Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera Cavalleria Rusticana is one of the most frequently performed 'verismo' operas. Conducting the work tonight is the Italian maestro Walter Attanasi, who conducts not only in Europe, but also in South America, South Africa and Japan. Olja Dakich, who sings for us tonight, studied opera singing, theatre and film acting at universities in Vienna, Belgrade and Berlin. As principal soloist of the European Chamber Orchestra, she has performed in several operas in Europe, and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Sofi Koberidze studied at the conservatoire in Tbilisi, completing her studies in 2011 at the Vincenzo Bellini conservatoire in Catania. She has been successful at many international competitions, for example at the OMEGA Voices Lyrics 2013 in Florence. Francesco Grollo, who comes from Treviso, Italy, performs regularly in classic tenor roles in important opera houses in Europe and America. The baritone Christopher Robertson has sung all over the world, including at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Teatro Real de Madrid, Covent Garden, the San Francisco Opera and others. He has worked with the conductors Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Yuri Temirkanov, Neeme Järvi, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, and David Zinman.