Thanksgiving for the Harvest
Sunday, 27. 9. 2020 at 09:00
Church of St. Leonard
Kdousov (Czechia)
The concert, part of the ”Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region” festival, will feature Petr Kolař, titular organist of the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Brno and professor at the Brno Conservatory.
Künstler
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From 1982 to 1988, he studied organ at the Conservatory in Brno with Vratislav Bělský, and later with Zdeněk Nováček. He then continued his studies at JAMU in Brno, in the class of Prof. Alena Veselá. During his studies, he actively participated in interpretation courses with Prof. Martin Haselblöck in Lübeck, Stanislav Heller and Michael Radulescu in Vienna. He also drew attention to himself with successes at several organ competitions (1986 Opava II prize, 1988 Brno II prize, 1989 Prague Spring III prize, 1991 Deventer I prize)
After completing his studies between 1993 and 2000, he began teaching organ and improvisation at the Department of Sacred Music at JAMU in Brno. Since 2000, he has been a teacher of organ and improvisation at the Brno Conservatory. He regularly collaborates with the Brno Philharmonic, various chamber ensembles and choirs. He performs solo at home and abroad (Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, France, Luxembourg, Finland, Malta, Vatican, China).
Throughout his musical career, he has been dedicated to working with vocal choirs. From 1995 to 2002, he was engaged at the National Theatre in Brno, where, as choirmaster of the Opera, he prepared more than 20 operettas and musicals. In 2001, he became the choirmaster of the Brno Philharmonic Choir Beseda brněnská and conductor of the Cathedral Orchestra of St. Peter and Paul. In 2014, he founded the Brno Cathedral Choir MAGNIFICAT.
He develops cooperation in the field of sacred music with representatives of music from important Central European churches (Salzburg Cathedral, Nikolaikirche Leipzig, Bratislava Cathedral, Olomouc Cathedral). Since 2000, he has been a member of the presidium of Musica sacra. He has released several CDs. The most recent CD with his conducting performance is a recording of the original version of Jakub Jan Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass “Hej, mistře” and Jan Antonín Koželuh’s Missa pastoralis in D. The most recent organ CD is: Mathis’s organ of the Jesuit church in Brno.
From 1990 to 1997, he served as choirmaster and organist at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Old Brno. Since 1998, he has held the position of choirmaster and organist at the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Brno. During Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Brno in 2009, he conducted the music at the solemn papal mass at the local airport.
For his work in the field of sacred music, he received the St. Cyril and Methodius Medal in 2017, and in 2019 he received the Johann-Wenzel-Stamitz Prize from the Esslingen artistic association.
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Entritt
Voluntary admission
Programme
(1713–1773)
(1545–1572)
(1710–1778)
Andante—Allegro
(1685–1750)
(1695–1755)
(1562–1621)
(1732–1771)
(1734–1810)
(1705–1772)
Fotogallerie
Ort
The Church of St. Leonard is located in the centre of the village of Kdousov and is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Kdousov. This late Baroque single-nave church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. History: The church was built on a site where, according to research, an original church probably stood around the 11th or 12th century. The first written mention of both the village and the church dates back to 1342. In 1597, the church and the village were sold to the Collegiate Chapter of St. Maurice in Kroměříž. The church in its present form was built by Father Karl Poisl, who, before its construction, managed to complete the reconstruction of the parish building in Kdousov, and then also had the Church of St. Catherine built in nearby Slavíkovice – he probably chose the same architect (Matyáš Kirchmayer) as for the Church of St. Leonard, which he had built immediately after the completion of the church in Slavíkovice – i.e., from 1749, but by his death in 1753, he had only built the structure to a height of one fathom. The next priest to continue the construction was Ignác Soukup, who perhaps studied architecture directly under Matyáš Kirchmayer. However, the first written mention of the new church dates only from 1766, although the construction was supposed to last from 1753 to 1763. The church was then consecrated on 2 July 1767. In 1997, the church organ was repaired and newly blessed, and in 2011, the church was newly painted.
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