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Summer Solstice Concerts. Additional information.

official poster

We are happy to meet you this saturday in the landscape behind the Turnov City at Summer Solstice Concerts! Anyway, do not expect big stage or amplified sound! Our stage is nature itself. Our event will be fragile as the nature around us is.  Our aim is not to steal the space from the country but contrary to harmonise ourselves with the space, get the inspiration, peace and inner power, which people historically drew from being in the nature especially during the summer solstice period. This event is for those who desire to leave the noise and agresivity of the modern world at least for a while…

You will find the schedule of the event on the official poster on the top of this post and at the right column “Upcoming events” of this web page.

Painting workshop will be under patronate of great Czech academic painter Vladimír Véla, who will coordinate you during painting on canvas in the open space.

We reccomend to bring a blanket for sitting on the ground, also something to grill at fire, which will burn during the time between the “Talks about the nature” and an evening concert.

We are looking forward to see you!

 

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Czech premiere of the Graal Theatre Review

Review on the Czech premiere of Violin concerto “Graal Theatre” written by great finnish composer Kaija Saariaho premiered by violinist Jana Kubánková accompanied by the Berg Orchestra – read on the following link to the eminent Czech musical magazine “Harmonie” (after opening the link kindly switch the site into english and the article will immediately translate to english):

Review, Graal theatre

Jana Kubánková and Berg Orchestra
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“Graal theatre” invitation

Jana Kubánková would like to invite you to the Czech premiere of the Graal theatre – a violin concerto composed by great woman – finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. The performance will be held on 4th of June in Prague. Jana will be accompanied by the Berg orchestra.

Kaija Saariaho

This violin concerto was dedicated to famous violinist Gidon Kremer by Kaija Saariaho. No wonder that the composition is very difficult and expects high standart of both technical skills and expression from performer. Graal theatre is beautiful composition, colourful in sound, and expresses woman “archetypal earthy” and peaceful power in lyrical parts. This composition gets the inspiration from the book by Jacques Roubaud.

Come and let yourself be spent by magical atmosphere of the old legend and experience violin concerto different way!

Kaija Saariaho official web site

Berg Orchestra

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Recital Review

Our end of May was mainly about solo recitals.

On Friday 25th of May Jana Kubánková and Martin Hybler held their concert at Valdstejn Castle, inconic Czech sightseeing situated on the sandstone rocks in the natural heritage Bohemia Paradise.  Great works by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, E. Schulhoff, O. Messiaen were played. Jana commented the concert herself to provide the audience context of particular compositions, atmosphere was therefore very open and nice. Right after the concert visitors also had a chance to listen to the old organ in Jan Nepomucký Chapel in the castle.

On sunday 27th of May, at beautiful Synagogue in Jičín city, Jana Kubánková presented her recital called “Jewish violin of the classical repertoire”, based mainly on the solo violin works of the 20th century. This concert was very special.. Jewish synagogue in Jičín is very magical space and when classical music of 20th century enters and brings all the  stories of ist authors, then history becomes very present and people understand not just racionally but emotionally. At this concert Jana also told the stories of the music played and the audience became very open and personal to this kind of music. At the end of the concert  prolonged applause sounded the space of synagogue.

 

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Jewish violin of classical repertoire

Let us invite you to the solo violin recital of Jana Kubánková named Jewish violin of classical repertoire being held at beautiful synagogue in Jičín city. Concert os held nn sunday, 27th of May and starts at 18:00.

On the program there are mainly Czech authors composing around II. World War and after. Jana will coment the concert so you will have a chance to get new information about authors, their artworks and whole context.

We look forward to see you!

official invitation

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Friday on the TV!

For those who couldn´t manage personally. Also for those who were there but want more! This friday, on 25th of May, at 20:20 at the ČTArt Channel(also via internet) you have another chance to watch and listen to the crossover concert of popular Czech singer Michal Hrůza, his band and symphonic ladies orchestra BonART led by conductor Martin Hybler. Concert was held at Dvořák´s Hall, Rudolfinum Prague.

 

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Concerts to Summer Solstice

Concerts to summer solstice will be held on Saturday 16th of June at 19:00 and Sunday 17th of June at 6:00am in the open landscape near the Turnov city. We will also offer you additional program.

Karel Dohnal as Harlekin

On Saturday at 19:00 we will present unique music performance Harlekin by K. Stockhausen played by extraordinary clarinetist Karel Dohnal. This composition is not just about music but also dramatic performing and motion, which make it extremely difficult so only several soloists play it. Do not wait to visit this performance and be a witness of this rare concert moment!

On Sunday at 6:00, being surrounded by beautiful athmosphere right after the sunrise, you are invited to listen to the orchestral concert of the TOS orchestra led by Martin Hybler and professional guests – flutist Melanie Sabel, guitarist Štěpán Matějka and violinist Jana Kubánková.

Within the additional program you can try painting on the canvas in the open landscape(planair) coordinated by academic painter. This non-traditional workshop will be held on saturday at 16:00.  At 17:00 we will invite you to a lecture about nature with  our eminent natural scientist RNDr.  Zdeněk Mrkáček.

Admission to whole event optional. We look forward to meet you in the landscape!

On the video below you can enjoy music and photos from the last concert in the nature to the summer solstice:

 

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Classical concert at Valdstejn castle

We would like to invite you to a classical concert  included in the project “Night of the Churches” being held in the Czech Republic during the evening on 25th of May. The aim of this project is to present and remind the public all beautiful churches and chapels being situated in our country and being important part of our history.

Jana Kubánková and Martin Hybler

We will enrich by music interior of  the Chapel of Jan Nepomucký at Valdštejn Castle situated on the rock right in the hard of The Bohemian Paradise. You will enjoy the works by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, E. Schulhoff and O. Messiaen presented by Jana Kubánková on violin and Martin Hybler on piano.

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Birds of The Bohemian Paradise in music

On 24th of April a presentation of new book “Birds of Bohemian Paradise Rock Cities” by Czech eminent ornitologist RNDr. Zdeněk Mrkáček, cooperating with Mr. Karel Broulík. This book collects surveys of bird kinds nesting and living throughout the rock complexes in the Bohemian Paradise.  This presentation evening was accompanied by beautiful photo slides with piano improvisation by Martin Hybler.

Elementary melodies in Bohemian Paradise birds singing

Martin  cooperates with Mr. Mrkáček about ten years. Together with creating original improvisations and music to his photos he mainly works on notographic marking of the Bohemian Paradise birds singing and communication. Some elementary outcomes were already published in popular book of Zdeněk Mrkáček Birds of The Bohemia Paradise(2011) with CD of life records of birds singing included.

Once you visit natural beauties of The Bohemian Paradise you probably stop at one of many informational panels with educational texts and photographies. At many of these you will find the name of Zdeněk Mrkáček!

In the following video ou can enjoy record of the life presentation of the photographies from Zdeněk Mrkáček´s book together with life improvisation being created by Martin Hybler right on stage!

 

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When does the end start?

When president attacks public media, when this same person calls demonstrated students “poor souls”; when parliament is able to elect former communistic “policemen puncher” from Velvet demonstrations in 1989 to the head of the main control institution of the “General Inspection of the Safety Corps”; when the prime minister is being accepted while being criminally prosecuted and being former communist secret police agent; when the word democracy is used and abused by undemocratic politicians as a tool of manipulation against the democratic ones; when journalists are killed for revealing the truth; when foreign politics of democratic state deepen cooperation with undemocratic regimes; when communist politician can call others “democratic septic”; when people who disagree with political top is called enemy of democracy although the right to disagree is privilege of democracy; when the political top cares just of their own interests with no respect to state law, constitution and make an important decisions and interruptions in political apparatus although being in demission state; when political top divide the nation in implacable parts; when they transmit hate; when they twist clear terms to unusable words so that it is not possible to work with them and the truth is about to be lost; when the quotes of the most democratic icons of our political past are abused and twisted to the new context by undemocratic personalities so that they would be recognized as democrats…
…then the end starts. The end of democracy.

Jana Kubánková