Strings and Pipes Simultaneously
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Künstler

• David Pokorný (CZ) – violin

  began playing the violin at the age of four in the class of Prof. Vladimír Král. At fourteen, he became the overall winner of the ZUŠ Competition in Trutnov. After entering the Prague Conservatory in the class of Prof. Jaroslav Foltýn, he became the overall winner of the Prague Junior Note competition and received an award for the best performance of a composition by a Czech composer. In 2000, he won the Concertino Praga radio competition, received an award for the best performance of the compulsory composition, and the Zdenka Podhajská Prize for the best Czech participant in the competition. Two years later, he became the winner of the Conservatory Competition Showcase in Teplice. He perfected his art at masterclasses with professors Andras Kiss, Stephen Ships, Semyon Jaroshevich, Charles Avsharian, Bohumil Kotmel, and Jan Talich. He records for Czech Radio and is regularly invited to festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Bad Arolsen Festival, Schlern International Music Festival, South Bohemian Festival, Janáček’s May, Talentinum Zlín, Ludwig van Beethoven Music Festival, etc.). Since 2007, he has been the leader of the second violins of the SOČR and since 2008, the first violinist of the Epoque Quartet.

• Alexej Aslamas – violin

  After studying at the Brno Conservatory with Prof. Bohumil Kotmel, he transferred to the Prague Conservatory in the class of Prof. Pavel Kudelásek. Under his guidance, in 2005 he graduated from the conservatory with Dmitry Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, accompanied by the Prague Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. In the same year, he was accepted to AMU in Prague in the class of Doc. Jindřich Pazdera. From 2008-11, he studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy Gstaad in Switzerland with Maestro Alberto Lysy and Liviu Prunaru. During his studies, he participated in various masterclasses (Prof. Semion Jaroshevich, Attila Falvay, Bogdan Zvoristeanu, Mihaela Martin, Philippe Graffin, Stanimir Todorov, Ettore Causa, Hagai Shaha and Maestro Maxim Vengerov). He studied conducting at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in the class of Doc. Hynek Farkač.

  His achievements include prizes won at competitions in Interlaken (Switzerland, 2005), San Sebastian (Spain, 2008), Schwerin (Germany, 2010), Chamonix (France, 2011). Alexey Aslamas is actively involved in chamber music (2005-2009 – member of Kaprov Quartet, 2008-2011 member of IMMA Quartet); since 2011 he has been the first violinist of the Pavel Bořkovec String Quartet), 2020 founder and leader of S.V.A. Trio.

  In parallel, he practices playing in the most diverse styles from blues, through funk to psytrance and hip hop (collaboration with bands Cradle of Filth, Acute Dose, producers DJ, Opia, Sirian). As an arranger, he collaborates with Epoque Quartet, MIB Quartet, Apollon Quartet, Michal Pavlíček, Monika Načeva, Dara Rollins, Dashu, Chuck Wamsley, Barbora Mochowá, etc.

  He is a permanent conductor at StarRecordings Production. As a conductor, he collaborates with Jasper Blunk (Performance Samples).

• Kateřina Málková (CZ) – organ

  Kateřina Málková was born in Znojmo. She received her first musical education at the primary art school in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. In 1998, she enrolled at the Brno Conservatory in the class of Prof. Petr Kolař, where she completed her studies in 2004 with a final concert at the Besední dům. In the same year, she was accepted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Doc. Jaroslav Tůma. She successfully completed her bachelor’s concert with him, and in the following year, 2008, she went for a one-year study abroad internship to Germany at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, where she studied with Prof. Arvid Gast. Here she performed at several concerts, e.g., in St. Jakobikirche, in the Cathedral, etc. In 2010, she completed her master’s degree with a concert at HAMU as part of the "The Best" concert series with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, performing F. Poulenc’s organ concerto. Within the school, she performed, for example, at the Minifestival Kabeláče and Messiaena, at concerts of contemporary music of the composition department, etc. During her studies, she participated in a number of masterclasses with prominent organ personalities, such as Marie Claire Alain, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Andreas Schröder, Jon Laukvik, Martin Sander, Martin Schmeding, Slawomir Kaminski, Matthias Maierhoffer, Pier Damiano Peretti and Gustav Leonhardt.

  Currently, she focuses on solo performance, having performed at festivals such as the Eduard Nápravník International Music Festival, Brno Organ Festival, Podblanický podzim, Štětský varhanní podzim, Suk’s musical Štiřín, Kláštery Český Krumlov, etc. In Slovakia, she played on the occasion of the European organ festival in Kremnica. Kateřina Málková has performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia and Lithuania. She collaborates with various Czech orchestras including the CNSO Czech National Symphony Orchestra, North Bohemian Philharmonic, Atlantis Orchestra, Collegium magistrorum Mikulov, and Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic. She is very actively involved in music education for children, teaching piano and organ. With violinist Alexej Aslamas, she developed music lectures for primary and art schools, focusing on classical music and modern contemporary music. She always strives to promote organ music, which is why she organised a series of concerts in the castle chapel in Lednice na Moravě in the summers of 2016 and 2017, and since 2016 she regularly organises Advent and Epiphany concerts with a choir and orchestra in South Moravia. In 2020, she performed as a soloist with the Sedunum String Orchestra at concerts in Switzerland. She is the founder of the newly established international music festival "Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region" in South Moravia and Lower Austria.

• Anton Aslamas – composer

  Born in Cheboksary (Russia) in 1988. Comes from a musical family. From 2003 - 2009 he studied at the Brno Conservatory in piano under the guidance of his mother Prof. Inna Aslamasová, at the Brno Conservatory he also studied for four years as a composer with Prof. Radomír Ištván. From 2007 – 2013 he then studied at AMU in Prague in composition under the guidance of Prof. Ivan Kurz. From 2009 – 2010 he completed a study stay at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.

  He has won numerous awards in competitions as a pianist, composer and flutist both in chamber ensembles and solo. His compositions have been performed by, among others, the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, the Pilsen Philharmonic or Czech Radio Vltava live. He collaborates with violin virtuoso Milan Paľa, for whom he composed a piece for the newly invented type of string instrument Milanolo, or with the flute ensemble TIKARI Flutes from Prague, for whom he composed the piece "Homage to Old Masters" for the concert of the winners of the Concerto Bohemia radio competition at Žofín in Prague.

  He has gained extensive experience as a répétiteur both during his collaboration with his brother Alexej, a violinist, and during his collaboration with the prominent Czech baritone Filip Bandžak, who has also repeatedly performed his compositions at concerts. His skills also include music notation (transcribing music on a computer) and arranging compositions for various instrumental ensembles. He regularly collaborates with the Prague publishing house Portál on the publication of collections of children’s songs. In 2019 he completed the Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž in the field of répétiteur under the guidance of the chief répétiteur of the National Theatre in Prague Zdeněk Klauda and the leading Czech soprano Kateřina Kněžíková. He currently works as a répétiteur at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College in Prague in the musical department and at the Adolf Voborský Art School in Prague-Modřany.

• Michaela Pálka Plachká – composer

  Michaela Pálka Plachká studied composition at the Faculty of Music of AMU in Prague (2008) with Juraj Filas. She completed a study internship at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Germán Toro Peréz (2007). She also received a three-month work internship from the French music organisation SACEM in Paris (2009/10). In 2018, she defended her doctoral thesis focusing on Klangkunst and boundary areas of art, in which music or sound structure and other types of art are organically connected.
  Her compositions have been awarded the Gideon Klein Foundation Prize, the Austria Prize for composers, and in the Generace competition. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Konvergence composers’ association.

  She is primarily the author of instrumental music and projects combining multiple artistic disciplines (movement, word, visual objects). Her compositions have been performed on European and American stages. She has collaborated with many musical ensembles and bodies (Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra BERG, Pilsen Philharmonic, Ostrava Band, Alexander Quartet, Ensemble Calliopée, Adapter Berlin, LUX Wien, Konvergence, etc.).

  She also engages in literary work for children. She is the author of the CD of fairy tales and songs O skřítkovi Bambulínovi (co-author Tomáš Pálka) and the German project for children Bommelin aus Märchenwald.

  In her compositions, she is inspired by literature and visual arts. However, her most significant inspiration comes from real people, their stories, thoughts, and experiences. Various life paradoxes and contrasts are transformed into musical form, specific to each composition.

  A recent interesting enrichment for her work is also working with people, with energy, perceiving different dimensions of the world and being, and the cyclical nature of life.

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