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• Ensemble Frizzante (CZ) – vocal quintet

  The vocal quintet Ensemble Frizzante was founded in 2015 as an ensemble of professional singers from leading Brno choirs who wanted to find a counterpoint to performing large choral works and operas.

  They set themselves the goal of discovering little-performed or forgotten compositions, unusually combining the human voice with musical instruments, and delighting themselves and their listeners with the beauty of the harmony of vocal lines, which is one of the most beautiful experiences across musical genres.

  The ensemble’s repertoire is quite broad. Renaissance madrigals, interesting projects with baroque music, yet the core of its repertoire lies in the vocal music of the twentieth century. Several compositions by contemporary authors were written especially for them. Ensemble Frizzante performs frequently at home and abroad, is invited to festivals (Moravian Autumn, Hradec Králové Choral Festival, Malá Strana Chamber Festivities). In Brno, it organises its own cycle of vocal music concerts.

• Kateřina Málková (CZ) – organ

  She is currently dedicated to solo performance, having appeared at festivals such as the Eduard Nápravník International Music Festival, the Brno Organ Festival, Podblanický podzim, the Štětí Organ Autumn, Suk’s Musical Štiřín, and the Kláštery Český Krumlov, among others. In Slovakia, she played on the occasion of the European Organ Festival in Kremnica. Kateřina Málková has given concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, and Lithuania. She collaborates with various Czech orchestras, including the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Atlantis Orchestra, the Collegium Magistrorum Mikulov, and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic. She is very actively involved in the musical education of children, teaching piano and organ. With the violinist Alexey Aslamas, she has developed musical lectures for primary and music schools, focusing on classical and modern contemporary music. She is always eager to promote organ music, which is why she organised a series of concerts in the castle chapel in Lednice, Moravia, in the summers of 2016 and 2017, and since 2016 has regularly organised Advent and Epiphany concerts with a choir and orchestra in South Moravia. In 2020, she performed as a soloist with the Sedunum String Orchestra in 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. Kateřina Málková was born in Znojmo. She received her first musical education at the primary art school in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. In 1998, she entered 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 admitted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Doc. Jaroslav Tůma. She successfully completed her bachelor’s degree with him and in the following year, 2008, she went on a one-year foreign internship to Germany at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, where she studied with Prof. Arvid Gast. There she performed in several concerts, for example in St. Jakobikirche, in the Cathedral, etc. In 2010, she completed her studies with a master’s concert at the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) as part of the concert series "The Best" with the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, performing F. Poulenc’s organ concerto. During her studies, she participated in a number of master classes with prominent organists 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.

• Vokalensemble „Thayatal“
• Martin Alexander Strommer (AT) – organ

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