November 9, 2024 (Saturday) | 7:00 PM
Music Of The Czech Baroque
The Aula Magna of the Branicki Palace
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Performers:
- Tomáš Šelc - bass baritone
- COLLEGIUM MARIANUM - Early Music Ensemble
Jana Rudovská Semerádová – flauto traverso, artistic director
Lenka Torgersen – violin, concert master
Malgorzata Malke – violin
Andreas Torgersen – viola
Hana Fleková – violoncello
Jan Krejča – theorbo
Luděk Braný – double bass
Filip Hrubý – harpsichord / organ
PROGRAMME:
• Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741)
Ouverture IV. w g
Ouverture,
Rigaudon,
Trio Bourrée,
Da Capo Rigaudon,
Menuet, Passacaglia
z Concentus musico-instrumentalis, 1701
• Johann Joseph Fux
Aria per la Madonna Santissima
Quae est ista tam pulchra tam cara
• František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704–1774)
Partita C dur
Vivace,
Largo un poco Andante,
Menuet I & II,
Burlesque
• Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
Benedictus z Missa Corporis Domini
ZWV 3
• Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
Concerto G major for flute, strings and continuo
Allegro,
Largo Andante,
Allegro
• Jan Dismas Zelenka
Salve regina
for bass, 2 violins and continuo
ZWV 139
COLLEGIUM MARIANUM:
Since it was founded in 1997, the Prague ensemble Collegium Marianum has focused on presenting the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially by composers who were born or active in central Europe. One of the few professional ensembles specializing in this field in the Czech Republic, Collegium Marianum not only gives musical performances, but regularly also stages scenic projects.
The ensemble works under the artistic leadership of the traverso player Jana Semerádová who also regularly appears as a soloist with some of the eminent European orchestras. Her active research together with her study of Baroque gesture, declamation, and dance, has enabled Semerádová to broaden the profile of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and present multi-genre projects featuring Baroque dance and theater. Her unique, thematic programming has resulted in a number of modern-day premieres of historical music presented each year.
The ensemble has collaborated with renowned European conductors, soloists, directors, and choreographers such as Andrew Parrott, Hana Blažíková, Damien Guillon, Peter Kooij, Sergio Azzolini, François Fernandez, Simona Houda-Šaturová, Benjamin Lazar, Jean-Denis Monory, and Gudrun Skamletz. The ensemble has also maintained long-term collaboration with the Buchty a loutky theater company. The result of this collaboration have been some highly original projects, including the puppet opera Calisto and Handel’s pastoral opera Acis and Galatea. In January 2010 Collegium Marianum was awarded with an honor for the credits of quality and for the general promotion of Czech music, presented by the International Music Council by UNESCO.
JANA SEMERÁDOVÁ:
Flautist Jana Semerádová is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University (Theory and Practice of Early Music), and the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is also a laureate of the Magdeburg and Munich international competitions.
Jana Semerádová is the artistic director of Collegium Marianum and programming director of the concert cycle Baroque Soirées and the international music festival Summer Festivities of Early Music. She undertakes intensive archival research both at home and abroad and is engaged in ongoing study of Baroque gesture, declamation and dance. Many of her unique programmes are built around the interconnection of music and drama.
Under her direction, Collegium Marianum stages several modern premieres each year. Jana Semerádová has a number of CDs to her name; her recordings with Collegium Marianum are featured as part of the successful series “Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague” on the Supraphon label, for which she has also recorded her two signature CDs “Solo for the King” and “Chaconne for the Princess“.
Jana Semerádová has performed at leading European concert venues and festivals (such as Bachfest Leipzig, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Festival de Sablé, the Prague Spring festival, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Berlin, Vratislavia Cantans a Palau de la Música Catalana), collaborated as a soloist with artists including Magdalena Kožená, Sergio Azzolini, Alfredo Bernardini, and Enrico Onofri, and regularly performs with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il suonar parlante, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa, Orkiestra Historyczna and Ars Antiqua Austria.
Bernardini i Enrico Onofri, a także regularnie występuje z Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il Suonar Parlante, Wrocławską Orkiestrą Barokową, Orkiestrą Historyczną i Ars Antiqua Austria.
In 2015 she received her habilitation degree as an associate professor of flute from the Faculty of Music and Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2019 she was awarded the prize of the Prague Group of the Society for Arts and Sciences. The Czech Music Academy Awards „Anděl“ in 2020 brought the nomination to Jana Semerádová and Erich Traxler (category Classics) for their CD Chaconne for the Princess.
TOMÁŠ ŠELC:
A graduate of the University of Musical Arts in Bratislava (Peter Mikuláš’s class) and the Bratislava Conservatory (vocal class of Alžbeta Michálková and choral conducting class of Dušan Bill), he was awarded the Frico Kafenda Prize in 2020.
The artist specializes in concert repertoire. As a soloist, he has collaborated with prestigious ensembles such as the Kanazawa Symphony Orchestra, Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Bamberger Symphoniker, Clemencic Consort, Elbipolis, Hungary’s Budafoki Dohnányi Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Ostrava Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium 1704, Musica Florea, and the Slovak Bohdan Warchal Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at distinguished events including the International Mozart Festival in Johannesburg, the Santander Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, Wratislavia Cantans, the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, the Czech Easter Sacred Music Festival, the Bratislava Music Festival, the Bratislava Early Music Festival, Resonanzen in Austria, the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht, and at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, near Paris. As a choral singer, he has frequently participated in the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and has collaborated with renowned ensembles such as the Bamberger Symphoniker under the baton of Rolf Beck, Collegium Vocale Gent led by Philippe Herreweghe, Clemencic Consort under René Clemencic, Collegium 1704 under Václav Luks, and Capella Mariana directed by Vojtěch Semerád.
The artist is the recipient of numerous music competition awards, including the International Imrich Godin Vocal Competition (First Prize and Prize for the Best Performance of a Baroque Piece, 2006), the Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary (Third Prize and several special awards, 2007), and the “Ad honorem Mozart” Competition in Prague (First Prize, 2012). In 2013, he made his debut at the National Theatre in Brno as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In the following years, he also performed at the National Theatre in Ostrava, playing Agamemnon in Gluck’s Iphigenia in Aulis, as well as Spinelloccio and Amantio di Nicolao in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi.
His discography (Accent, Serafin, Hänssler Classic, tsARTmusic, among others) includes the songs of Alexander Albrecht, Biblical Songs by Antonín Dvořák and Marian Kittner, sacred music by Slovak composers, and oratorio works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Antonín Reicha, and Gabriel Fauré.
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