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Meadowmount School of Music. Just started!

Meadowmount School of Music

On 25th of June intensive seminars with Jana Kubankova for young scholars of prestigious Meadowmount School of Music have started. Seminars are held every day and deal with supporting motivation, self – confidence, concentration, creativity and stress compensation being a key aspect for any artistic training. Seminars also support communication abilities. Seminars will run for 14 days.

Meadowmount School of Music is unique project of legendary Ivan Galamian who founded this school yet in 1944 for his students including fo example I. Perlman or P. Zukerman. The school is situated in the forest right next to the Adirondack National Park in order to provide truly calm background for musical training. Alumnies mostly have a great careers as concertmasters and leaders, world chamber group players and of course soloists.

official web of Meadowmount School of Music

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Washington Recitals

The 21st and  22nd of June are the days of solo violin recitals played by Jana Kubánková in Washington DC.  Concerts are dedicated to 100year anniversary of Czech independence therefore music by authors composing during those hunderd years is on the programs. You will hear works by Ervín Schulhoff, Karel Sklenička, Klement Slavický, Jan Hanuš and Jaroslav Ježek. There is also a world premiere of solo violin composition “Lonely Self” written by Martin Hybler.

First concert is based at The Embassy of the Czech Republic. Second one is held in the Dupont Underground, great contemporary art space. This concert will remind us the communistic era in Czech and present authors writting during this era. There is also an exhibition of fine art created under the regime called Free2Be. At this concert, a venezuelan violinist Wuily Arteaga will perform. During the demostrations against the venezuelan regime he literally defended his country with violin in his hands…

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/events/free2be-wuilly-jana

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“Music Open” Project

Project “Music Open” was born in 2016 as a artistic platform supporting the cultural growth of the Czech-German border area throughout the historical Lausitz region and the north of The Czech Republic.

The aim of project is not just to support this area by concert and artistic production, but especially to let musicians from this area to join in as an active performers. We support both professional and amateur artists. We prepare the program together and present it at the concerts.

During the last year, Jana and Martin joined with other professionals, german flutist Melanie Sabel and quitar player Štěpán Matějka, and amateur orchestra from the north of Czech.

Project is supported by The Czech-German Fund for the Future.