6 – 12 August 2022
Kunín château
About course
Lecturers and subjects
Chamber music
Tuition fee
Schedule
Concerts
Accommodation and meals
Application
Contact
The course is intended for active participation by professionals, students from specialized music schools and for experienced amateurs with previous experience with Early Music. Active participation is also possible for players of modern instruments with a serious interest in music of earlier periods.
Passive participation is possible for anyone who is interested in baroque and renaissance music and its performance practice. Passive participants can follow the lessons in any of the classes and have free access to concerts and lectures.
For teachers in primary and secondary schools, we offer additional lessons in a course adapted according to the requirements for accreditation within the Ministry of Education’s system for further education for teachers (DVPP). The exact timetable and the calculation of additional lessons within the DVPP programme will be prepared individually based on the participant’s previous experience. Please contact us on musacad@email.cz for more information.
Course is organized by: Hudební lahůdky, z.s. (Musical Delicacies society), Česká loutnová společnost, z.s. (Czech Lute Society).
Supported by Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and State Cultural Fund of Czech Republic.
For goodwill and pleasant cooperation we thank Kunin château (warden Mr. Jaroslav Zezulčík, Nový Jičín museum), the Kunín parish (Mons. Dr. Alois Peroutka), the diocese of Ostrava-Opava (organologist Mr. Jiří Krátký), restaurant U dobré hraběnky, and the management of Nový Jičín school farm under VFU Brno.
LECTURERS AND SUBJECTS:
Beatriz Lafont Murcia (ES) – Solo singing
In the classes we will look at each piece and its performer as a whole, and work from there, be it from the side of musical interpretation, vocal technique, pronunciation, rhetoric and delivery of the text. All of them serving the purpose of giving a more authentic performance and making the student a more comfortable and confident performer, ready to explore his or her own possibilities. The musical choice can range from late renaissance madrigalists to Mozart, with a preference for the solo vocal repertoire from the Early Baroque Italian music and Renaissance solo vocal repertoire from England and Spain. We will work on ornamentation and style (messa di voce, trillo, gruppo, esclamazione, ribattuta di gola, cascata, diminution, etc.).
Born in Valencia, Beatriz Lafont studied Guitar and Singing at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valencia and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Joaquín Rodrigo de Valencia. During her studies, she was awarded the “Audience Prize” and the “Best Performer from Valencia Prize” at the V Certamen de Guitarra “Luys Milán” (L’Olleria).
After winning a scholarship from the Instituto Valenciano de la Música she moved to the Netherlands to study a Bachelor Degree and a Master Degree in Early Music Singing at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, specializing in the early Baroque Italian Music performace practice of singing and accompanying herself on the theorbo. In The Hague she studied singing with Rita Dams, Michael Chance, Jill Feldman and Peter Kooij, and theorbo with Mike Fentross and Joachim Held. She also attended masterclasses with renowned teachers such as Robert Expert, Marta Almajano, Cristina Miatello, Evelyn Tubb, Lambert Climent, Stephen van Dyck, Johannette Zomer, Fred Jacobs and Margreet Honig.
Beatriz Lafont has performed around Europe with various ensembles such as La Romanina, Harmonia del Parnàs, La Esfera Armoniosa, Musica Poetica, La Academia de los Nocturnos, Le Jardin Secret, Collegium Musicum Den Haag and Música Temprana, and participated in different festivals such as Festival de Música Antigua de Peñiscola, Festival de Música Antiga: Música, Història i Art (Valencia), Fringe Festival Oude Muziek (Utrecht), Festival Classique (The Hague), Festiwal Twórczosci Religijnej (Żory), Dag Oude Muziek (Bilzen), Edizione Pievi & Castelli in Musica (Italy), Hudební lahůdky (Brno) and Kasteelconcerten (Holland). She has participated in radio programs and recorded early music repertoire with various ensembles.
She has been teaching singing (both classical and historical) privately and at institutions such as the Conservatori de Música Isaac Albéniz (Girona). Since 2014 she teaches at the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice, Czech Republic.
Teaching languages: EN, IT, ES.
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Marta Kratochvílová – baroque and renaissance traverse flutes, historically informed interpretation on modern traverso and recorder
The class is intended for players of baroque or renaissance traverse flutes. Also welcome are players of modern flute and other types of flutes, who want to embark on traverso. Within the class, individual lessons will be given especially to the baroque repertoire and to the ensemble performance of baroque but also renaissance repertoire and consort (instruments will be provided).
Marta Kratochvílová studied flute at the Conservatory in Pardubice and then at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. In 2000 began her studies in France at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, where she specialized in baroque and renaissance flute with Jean-François Alizon and Nancy Hadden, and chamber music with Martin Gester and Patrick Blanc. She has participated in masterclasses and workshops by prominent figures such as Paul McCreesh, Barthold Kuijken, Jan Latham-Koenig and Sir Neville Marriner. In France until 2010, she played baroque and renaissance flute extensively in the ensembles Le Parlement de Musique Strasbourg, Bohemia duo and NotaBene. She also performed renaissance workshops (Ferrara, Munich, Stuttgart, Basel) with a consort of traverso players from Strasbourg.
Today she lives in the Czech Republic and performs regularly throughout Europe. She appears in mostly chamber and solo projects with artists such as Jan Čižmář, Karel Fleischlinger, Joel Frederiksen, Martin Jakubíček, Petr Kolař, Ján Krigovský, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Marc Vonau, Petr Wagner, and with the ensembles {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna and Plaisirs de Musique, of which she is a founding member. She is also artistic leader of the renaissance flute consort Tourdion.
As a teacher with many years of experience she is invited to presentations and masterclasses throughout Europe; she teaches also privately baroque and renaissance traverso playing and interpretation.
Teaching languages: CS, FR, (DE), (EN).
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Cristián Gutiérrez (CL), Jan Čižmář – Lute, guitar, vihuela, theorbo and other plucked instruments, basso continuo.
This course addresses not only lutenists and players of the baroque guitar, but also guitarists with no prior experience with playing on historical instruments. There will be instruments to borrow on-site. Any repertoire is welcome. Both tutors teach basso continuo, but otherwise their classes focus as follows:
- Cristián Gutiérrez especially on playing baroque guitar and vihuela, in particular the Spanish and South American repertoire. He also welcomes players on the theorbo, renaissance guitar and renaissance lute with any repertoire.
- Jan Čižmář on playing the baroque and renaissance lutes and the mandora and theorbo. He also attends the teaching of ensemble playing on renaissance lute and in mixed (“broken”) consort.
Basso continuo: The approach to basso continuo realization is often very individual and depends on the player’s personality, but also on the possibilities of his instrument. Our team of lecturers offers a varied view on these issues and new information for everybody, even for players with prior experience. The lessons will carried out in groups of players with similar focus. Important will be the mutual sharing of considerations and perceptions from common practice as well as bringing theoretical treatises into life.
Cristián Gutiérrez
He’s one of Chilean most notable early music performers. Born in Santiago de Chile, his guitar studies were carried out under Ernesto Quezadas’s professorship at the Music Conservatory of Universidad de Chile, being at the top of his class and finishing with the highest distinction granted by the university. He started his studies in lute, vihuela and baroque guitar, getting a grant from Fundación Andes to travel to Spain and continue his fellowship studies with Juan Carlos Rivera and Xavier Diaz-Latorre. He got his master of music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Holland, under the direction of Joachim Held and finished with the highest distinction and the Special Award.
From 2016 to 2018 Gutierrez was the director of the program “Initiation and Improvement of Early Music” of Alberto Hurtado University’s extension department.
Currently, he is the musical director of La PulsataTrio a music ensemble specialized in the study and preservation of colonial baroque string music and La Consonancia a baroque music ensemble.
At present he works as an academic at the Alberto Hurtado University, in Santiago de Chile, where he is director of the study program “Superior Interpretation in Early Music”. Since 2020 he is an academic at the Conservatory of the Universidad of Chile in the master program.
Teaching languages: ES, EN, IT, FR.
Jan Čižmář is a versatile performer focusing on historical plucked instruments. He performs regularly in Europe, Asia and the USA with ensembles such as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Capella Cracoviensis, and under conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, Giovanni Antonini, Yannick Nézet–Séguin and Christina Pluhar. He appears also as soloist with of baroque and renaissance repertoire, and is the artistic leader of the ensemble Plaisirs de Musique.
After graduation in guitar and musicology in his native Brno he studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where he began playing the lute in the class of Jakob Lindberg. He continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with the teachers Nigel North, Joachim Held, Mike Fentross and Christina Pluhar.
He was the founder and editor of the Czech guitar magazine Kytara and contributes regularly to other musical periodicals. He is also intensely involved with publishing and research activities in the field of early music.
Jan Čižmář taught lute and related instruments at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in Poland; currently he is teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno and at the Academy of Ancient Music at Masaryk University in Brno. He regularly gives courses and masterclasses in Europe and overseas.
Teaching languages: CS, EN, PL, DE, (FR).
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Marian Friedl – overtone flute, recorder and other wind instruments – consultation
With her free approach to music of all genres, Marian offers consultations to players of recorders and other wind and other instruments, especially on improvisational or folk repertoire. The teacher will answer technical questions about playing recorder and other wind instruments, as well as stringed instruments. The instrument of freedom par excellence – overtone flute, will also be available for testing.
Marian Friedl, musician, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, member of several music projects of various specializations, in which he sings, plays the double bass, folk flutes, bagpipes, clarinet, small dulcimer and other instruments. He has performed on more than two dozen CDs, often with leading performers from the Czech scene and abroad. In 2014 he recorded, for example, the album NOCZ and Iva Bittová (Hevhetia), in 2016 Divé Husy with Jitka Šuranská and Martin Krajíček (nominated for the Anděl Music Award 2016) and in the same year the album Mateřština with Jiří Slavík (Anděl award 2016 in the World Music category). He embodied his personal vision of Moravian World Music in his self-conceived project Lambs and Wolves; the album of the same name won the Anděl 2017 award in the Folk category. In 2019 he released his solo album Beskydská Odysea (Indies Scope), the neo-folklore project Píseň ZEMĚ (Animal Music), and also performed as sideman on albums of the Norwegian-Czech group NOCZ and Choir (Hevhetia) and in the project Slovak Dances of the composer and conductor Peter Reiner (Naxos).
CHAMBER MUSIC SUBJECTS AND WORKSHOPS:
Lute orchestra – Jan Čižmář, Cristian Gutiérrez
Workshop focused on ensemble instrumental repertoire for plucked instruments – lutes and guitars. The programme will include both Renaissance works from lute sources (Codex Jacobides, Attaignant, Vallet) and Baroque repertoire (Losy, Murcia). Participants in all four blocks will perform concerts of the Bohemian Lute Orchestra.
Renaissance traverso consort – Marta Kratochvílová
Instruments from the Paris workshop of Ph.-A. Dupré. Repertoire: Moravian and Czech Renaissance. Participants of all four blocks will perform at concerts of the Tourdion ensemble.
Castanet workshop – Beatriz Lafont Murcia
For those interested in playing castanets and Spanish music in general. The instructor will introduce, depending on the level of the participants, the basics and advanced techniques of playing this instrument. The lessons will be taught in English.
El Siglo de Oro – Cristián Gutiérrez, Beatriz Lafont Murcia
Workshop focusing on the vocal and instrumental music of the Spanish Golden Age in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was a period where arts and literature flourished in Spain; it was marked by the territorial unification of the Spainish Kingdom by the Catholic Monarchs, by the floods of gold coming from the newly discovered America, by the ascension of the Habsburg dynasty to the Spanish throne, and by the expansion of the realm to the Empire where the Sun never sets.
- Repertoire: Recercadas, glosas, canciones, madrigales, diferencias; dance forms such as folías, jácaras or canarios.
- Instruments: Voice, violin, viola da gamba, recorders/wind instruments, plucked strings, harpsichord, organ.
- Composers: Juan del Enzina, Cristóbal de Morales, Antonio de Cabezón, Diego Ortíz, Luis de Narváez, Andrea Falconiero, Gaspar Sanz, Sebastián Durón, Juan Hidalgo etc.
Improvisation – Jan Čižmář, Cristian Gutiérrez, Marian Friedl
The basics of historical improvisation on historical harmonic schemes (Jan Čižmář) and their further elaboration in the form of rhythmic variations (Cristian Gutiérrez) will be complemented by a layer of free improvisation and self-expression (Marian Friedl).
Borders as inspiration, limit and challenge! What boundaries do we face in music and does knowing them perfectly make us freer to express ourselves? Do we need any boundaries at all, or is it better not to limit ourselves and create absolutely free music? Does it even exist, or is it just us playing for ourselves? But if music doesn’t communicate with another, is it music? Under what circumstances does music communicate in such a way that it makes us cross boundaries between people, cultures, space and time? These and many other questions will be asked in an improvisation class in which we will learn about historical boundaries, explore the limits of music and ourselves, and try out different ways of making music in real time.
Basic tuition fee 1.980 CZK (ca. 80 EUR) includes
- 4 blocks of ensemble / workshop as preferred or
- 2 blocks of ensemble / workshop and 1 individual lesson or
- 2 individual lessons
- Free entry on the Opening concert of lecturers
- Possibility of performance on the Closing concert of participants (in accordance with the lecturer)
Duration of 1 individual lesson: at least 40 minutes.
Duration of 1 block of ensemble: cca. 180 minutes.
Passive participants can follow the lessons in any of the classes and have free access to concerts and lectures.
There is a possibility to order more lessons beyond the basic fee. Price unit 990 CZK (ca. 40 EUR)* includes
- 1 individual lesson or
- 2 blocks of ensemble / workshop as preferred
* Discount 20% from lessons beyond the basic fee for students up to 26 and for members of Czech Lute Society (discounts is possible to combine).
COURSES: 6 – 12 August 2022 (tentative schedule)
Saturday 6 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
19:00 – First teachers’ concert – TELEMANNIA (M. Kratochvílová, M. Friedl)
Sunday 7 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
19:30 – The concert at the Radun castle – LA VIEJA ESPAÑA (B. Lafont, C. Gutiérrez, J. Čižmář)
Monday 8 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
19:00 – Second teachers’ concert – LA VIEJA ESPAÑA (B. Lafont, C. Gutiérrez, J. Čižmář)
Tuesday 9 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 -individual lessons and ensembles
19:00 – The concert at the Bilovec castle – TELEMANNIA (M. Kratochvílová, M. Friedl)
Wednesday 10 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
19:00 – Participants’ concert – Tourdion (traverso consort) and Bohemian Lute Orchestra
Thursday 11 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 18:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
19:00 – The concert at the Bilovec castle – Tourdion a Bohemian Lute Orchestra
Friday 12 August
9:00 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 17:00 – individual lessons and ensembles
18:00 – Closing participants’ concert
Lessons will be in the stylish baroque baroque château in Kunín (Kunewald, “the little Moravian Mirabell”, 1726–1734). Facebook profile of Kunín château
Individual lessons can possibly be scheduled also on 5 and 13. 8.
Opening of the ensemble classes will depend on sufficient number of participants. Basic tuition fee allows participation in 2 or 4 blocks of one type ensemble. There is possibility to order more lessons. Repertoire for ensembles will define lecturers.
Kunín:
6 August 2022 – Opening teachers’ concert – Telemannia – Marta Kratochvílová a Marian Friedl
8. 8. 2022 – La vieja España – Beatriz Lafont Murcia, Cristián Gutiérrez, Jan Čižmář
10 August 2022 – Participants’ concert – Tourdion (traverso consort) and Bohemian Lute Orchestra
12 August 2022 – Closing participants’ concert
In addition to the concerts in Kunín, there will be other concerts in the vicinity, at which teachers and participants of the courses will perform.
7. 8. – Chateau Raduň – La vieja España- Beatriz Lafont Murcia, Cristián Gutiérrez, Jan Čižmář
9. 8. – Chateau Bílovec – Telemannia – Marta Kratochvílová a Marian Friedl
11. 8. – Chateau Bílovec – Tourdion a Bohemian lute orchestra
ACCOMMODATION:
We are offering accommodation at two dormitories of the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, rather modest housings with 3 to 6 beds in one room. If possible, we will try to avoid occupying the rooms fully. Sanitary facilities are in the corridor, there is access to little kitchen.
Price for person / night with breakfast: 320 CZK /220 CZK without breakfast (ca. 13 EUR with / 9 EUR without breakfast).
MEALS:
Restaurant “U Dobré hraběnky” right in the Kunín château www.dobrahrabenka.cz.
Breakfast: buffets, included in the price for accommodation (optional): 100,- CZK (ca. 4 EUR)
Lunch: soup + choice of 3 main dishes: 115,- CZK (ca. 4,70 EUR)
Dinner: choice of 3 main dishes: 105,- CZK (ca. 4,30 EUR)
(Accommodation at the dormitory + full board: 540,- Kč (ca. 22 EUR) per person/day)
Order of the meals will be ordered in advance from the menu that will be sent to participants after the registration of the application form.
Payment for accommodation and meals is added to the course fee.
APPLICATION FORM TO DOWNLOAD .doc / .pdf
Filled in application form has to be sent by e-mail on address: musacad@email.cz.
The fee calculation and payment information will be sent to you as soon as we receive your application.
The application is considered binding after payment of the fee, no later than 28 July 2022.
In the case of cancelling of courses because of COVID-19 situation, will be all the fees payed back. Pay back after the cancellation of application on the part of participant will be arranged individually. We reserve the privilege to keep 40% of tuition fee.
The event is organised by:
HUDEBNÍ LAHŮDKY, z. s.
Kociánka 69/25b, CZ-612 00 Brno, IČO: 22719458
e-mail: kontakt@hudebnilahudky.cz, web: www.hudebnilahudky.cz
Contact e-mail for information about courses: musacad@email.cz
Bank details (fees for the summer courses): Fio banka, a.s., Praha, BIC: FIOBCZPPXXX
account in CZK: 2000181883/2010 IBAN: CZ6020100000002000181883
account in EUR: IBAN: CZ2220100000002600181887
and
ČESKÁ LOUTNOVÁ SPOLEČNOST, z. s.
Kociánka 69/25b, CZ-612 00 Brno, IČO: 07090188
e-mail: info@lute.cz, web: www.lute.cz, Facebook: lute.cz