Polish Inspiration
Opening Concert of the Festival
Saturday, 24. 8. 2024 at 19:00
Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Vranov nad Dyjí (Czechia)
The concert will feature works by Georg Muffat (1653–1704), Giovanni Battista Cocciola (d. 1625), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), and George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). Special attention will be given to Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013, and Handel’s Sonata in D minor for recorder and basso continuo, HWV 367a.
The concert will be performed by Polish artists Katarzyna Czubek on the baroque flute and Filip Presseisen on the organ.
The venue is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Vranov nad Dyjí. This late Romanesque church, later rebuilt in the Gothic style, is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
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Künstler
- Katarzyna Czubek is a Polish musician specialising in the recorder and historical oboe. She is an assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków, where she teaches recorder with Prof. Erik Bosgraaf. Katarzyna studied recorder at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Jorge Isaac and at the Academy of Music in Kraków with Prof. Peter Holtslag. She studied historical oboe at the Conservatorio di Verona with Prof. Paolo Grazzi. Together with Anna Jankowska, she is the curator and organiser of the Młoda Muzyka Dawna early music festival, a platform for young ensembles specialising in historical repertoire. Katarzyna has performed with renowned ensembles such as Les Ambassaduers (cond. A. Kossenko), Cappella Cracoviensis (cond. T. Adamus), Arte dei Suonatori (cond. A. Goliński), Ukho Ensemble Kyiv (cond. Luigi Gaggero), Cappella Neapolitana (cond. Antonio Florio) and many others. She is regularly invited as a juror at national recorder competitions in the Czech Republic (Ostrava and Teplice).
- He graduated from the organ class of Prof. Dr. Christoph Bossert at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg and the organ class at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. He studied in the class of Prof. F. Danksagmüller at the Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck. Prizewinner of the Felix Nowowiejski Competition in Poznań (2017), special prize Antalffy-Preis for the best interpretation of works on historical organs at the ION International Organ Competition in Nuremberg (2016), 1st prize at the Internationaler Kinoorgel-Wettbewerb in Berlin (2015), 2nd prize and audience prize at the International Improvisation Competition in Schwäbisch Gmünd (2019). He performs abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, USA). Filip Presseisen has also recorded for Polish Radio and Television and the German radio station MDR. He received his doctorate in instrumental music in 2020 and his postdoctoral degree in 2024. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Church Music in Kraków and an expert for the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of organ monument preservation. As a chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with the Capella Cracoviensis.
Entritt
Voluntary admission
Programme
(1653–1704)
Apparatus musico-organisticus
(?–1625)
Tabulaturae Braunsbergenses-Olivenses
improvisation - organ
(1685–1750)
BWV 1013
(1713–1780)
WV 424
(1685–1759)
for recorder and basso continuo, HWV 367a
(1627–1693)
improvisation - organ
improvisation - flute
(1570–1626)
Selva de varii passaggi (1620)
Fotogallerie
Ort
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Vranov nad Dyjí, located in the centre of the town of Vranov nad Dyjí. It is a late Romanesque building, later rebuilt in the Gothic style. The church, as part of the complex including the presbytery, is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The church was built in the first half of the 13th century and was subsequently extended. In its original form, the church was sacked by the Swedes in 1645, leaving only the foundations, which are preserved in the walls of the present church. The church was rebuilt in 1685 with the support of the noble Althann family, who continued to support the church in subsequent years. Among other things, Countess Marie Anna Althann donated an altarpiece of the Virgin Mary to the church. Around 1700 the nave was vaulted, around 1720 the original tower was demolished and a new masonry tower was built in 1720. In 1767 the roof was repaired and in 1778 the choir was vaulted. Between 1781 and 1782 the cemetery wall was repaired and a year later a watchman’s house was built, which was converted into an ossuary after 1800 - but was soon demolished. In the 1930s the church was repaired, between 1933 and 1934 the surroundings of the church were repaired and in 1936 the interior was repaired. In 1957 oil stoves were installed in the church, in 1958 the church was painted and in 1968 and 1969 the roof of the sacristy and the chancel were gradually reconstructed. In 1986 the roof of the church was repaired again.
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