the cast
Jana Krajčovičová (* 1983)
… is a graduate of the Žilina Conservatory, Slovakia. Currently she is a student of singing at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, under the supervision of Marta Beňačková. She has attended masterclasses taught by Andrej Kucharský, Karla Bytnarová, Anna Barová and Allan Nonatt. She holds a certifi cate of merit for her performance at a spiritual music competition in Kroměříž (2006). She regularly performs at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and works with the chamber opera at JAMU. She also regularly performs at contemporary music festivals in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Marek Čermák (* 1977)
… graduated from JAMU in Brno, majoring in orchestral conducting. He specialises in the interpretation of early as well as contemporary music. He is the artistic director of the Musica Figuralis ensemble; he works with Societas incognitorum, Sol et Sedes, Ars Brunensis Chorus, Solamente naturali, with the Brno Philharmonic and the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, etc. He conducts various opera projects prepared and performed by Ensemble Damian and he coordinates a variety of personal projects in old and contemporary music. As part of his work he is also involved with teaching ensemble playing and fifi gured bass according to the 18th century treatises applied to the cimbalom and organ continuo. His key activity is managing projects focused on renewed premieres of the late 18th century music from the Czech lands in authentic performances using period instruments.
Jakub Klecker (* 1982)
… conductor and choirmaster, was born in Brno in 1982. After his four-year study at the conservatory, majoring in conducting under the supervision of Prof. Aleš Podařil, he attended the Faculty of Music of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), where he was a student in the class led by Prof. Jiří Bělohlávek and doc. Tomáš Koutník.
Currently he is involved with Kantiléna, the Brno Philharmonic and Janáček Opera. Therefore, as a conductor he regularly performs with Czech and Slovak symphony orchestras. In the fall of 2007, he toured Japan for fi ve weeks as the second conductor of the Brno Philharmonic.
Kantiléna, sbor při Filharmonii Brno
… is a strictly selective choir and a laureate of many international choir competitions. It works with leading conductors, orchestras and contemporary composers. The initiative to establish the choir came from Ivan Sedláček in 1956, as the Šlapanice Children’s Choir. So far Kantiléna has performed at more than 1,250 concerts, in the Czech Republic as well as in seventeen countries abroad, including the USA, Canada, Japan and Russia. It has collected an impressive number of awards at international competitions, the most prestigious of which are the victories at competitions in Arezzo, Italy (1981) and Neerpelt, Belgium (1984 and 2006).
Ensemble Opera Diversa
… is an amateur group of mostly professional musicians and singers, performing informal chamber music and chamber opera. The Ensemble consists of several interconnected groups:
1. an operatic chamber ensemble (singers and chamber ensemble)
2. a chamber orchestra (15 string instrumentalists; producing classical as
well as modern compositions); and, most recently
3. a vocal consort (performing madrigals)
Ensemble Opera Diversa gives concerts and performances in the Czech Republic and in Austria, on the invitation of festivals of modern chamber music (e.g. str|ng festival in Vienna 2007). The Ensemble is renowned for its interpretations of classical as well as modern music and for its innovative and energetic approach. The chamber orchestra is sought after by soloists as an outstanding accompaniment, and by composers for the premieres of modern compositions.
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