The Year of Czech Music
130th anniversary of the Jevišovice Dam

Künstler

• Ivana Pavlů – soprano
  She studied singing at the Brno Conservatory and at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, where she has been working as an assistant professor at the Department of Singing of the Faculty of Music since 2022. She is a laureate of many international singing competitions, including the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary, the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Singing Competition in Deutschlandsberg, Austria, and the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation Competition, among others. During her studies, she portrayed many beautiful opera roles at the Chamber Opera of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts: Mirandolina (B. Martinů – Mirandolina), Countess Almaviva (W. A. Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro), First Lady (W. A. Mozart – The Magic Flute), etc. She has participated in masterclasses with Amelia Felle, Kateřina Beranová, Helena Kaupová, Michail Lanskoi, Thomas Steinhöffel, Deividas Staponkus, and Irena Sylya. In December 2017, she appeared as the First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Estates Theatre in Prague under the baton of Jaroslav Kyzlink. Since 2019, she has been a guest soloist at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava. In the autumn of 2023, she played the role of Mařenka in the children’s version of The Bartered Bride – Hurvínek Sells the Bride, which is presented by the National Theatre Brno in co-production with the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre. In the spring of 2024, she made her debut on the stage of the Janáček Opera in the opera Rusalka, directed by David Radok. In addition to her theatrical and teaching activities, she is also active in concert performance.
• Sébastien Thomas Bagnoud (Switzerland) – conductor
  Originally from Switzerland, he began his musical education at the Fribourg Conservatory, studying wind ensemble conducting in the class of J.-C. Kolly. He completed his bachelor’s degree in music education with a focus on singing at the Haute École de Musique (HEMU) in Lausanne. In 2015, he obtained a master’s degree from the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under the guidance of Prof. A. Azan Zielinski and P. Beran in conducting, and in the same year, a DAS diploma from the Bern Academy in the class of D. Roggen. In 2018, he completed his master’s degree in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) in Prague with Doc. Koutník, N. Baxa, and Doc. Svárovský. He attended conducting courses with J. Dobrzelewski and G. Contratti. In the summer of 2017, he received the Yuri Simonov Prize at the international conducting competition in Radom, Poland. In 2012, he founded the Sedunum String Orchestra (SSO) in Switzerland, with which he regularly organises and conducts concerts with leading soloists (A. Baranov, Ch. Croisé, G. Moix, A. Fournier, M. Guttman, etc.). In the Czech Republic, he has been regularly conducting the Thayatal Chamber Orchestra since 2018, whose members are leading players of the Janáček Theatre in Brno, and it is part of the international festival “Silberbauer’s Music Podyjí”. He is the co-author of the project and founder of the “Opera Studio Prague” association, which has been presenting critically acclaimed performances since 2016. In 2018, they performed the monologue opera by G. Frid, The Diary of Anne Frank, and B. Martinů’s ballet, La Revue de Cuisine; for the 100th anniversary of the republic, they performed L. Sommer’s opera Časoplet, and in 2022, Ravel’s L’heure espagnole. The performances were included in the programme of the “Opera Prague” music festival in 2018, 2020, and 2022. The opera Časoplet was presented to the audience in 2023 at the Smetana’s Litomyšl festival. With “Opera Studio Prague”, he has been conducting Dvořák’s opera Rusalka for two seasons under the open sky at the A. Dvořák Memorial in Příbram, where Dvořák wrote the work in 1900. In 2024, they are preparing a production of The Devil and Kate. He made his opera debut in 2014 in Lausanne, when, as an assistant to A. Zielinski, he conducted a performance of B. Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. In December 2015, he conducted a concert as part of the Beirut Chants festival in Lebanon. In 2015, he was approached by the Opéra du Rhône to study and conduct Rossini’s William Tell in the Martigny amphitheatre. In December 2017, he conducted and studied J. Offenbach’s opera Orpheus in the Underworld at the Martolet Theatre in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. From 2015 to 2017, he served as an assistant conductor to N. Baxa and conducted productions of Der Freischütz (Weber) and Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. In the summer of 2018, he became an assistant to conductor J. Fiore at the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a new production of Bizet’s Carmen. In 2021, he conducted the ballet Le Corsaire by A. Adam at the National Theatre Ostrava, conducted concerts with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, and in April 2023, he made his debut with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava. In the summer of 2022, he presented Puccini’s opera Tosca with the Opéra du Rhône in the Martigny amphitheatre (CH) with five performances for 5,000 visitors. In November 2023, he studied and conducted Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville at the Martolet Theatre in Switzerland. www.sebastienbagnoud.eu www.operadurhone.com www.operastudio.cz
• Thayatal Chamber Orchestra
  This is a professional ensemble whose members primarily collaborate with orchestras in Brno. It was established in 2020 as part of the Silberbauer Music Festival Thayatal. The orchestra also performs in other projects organised by the festival’s director, Kateřina Málková. The chief conductor of the orchestra is the Swiss conductor Sébastien Thomas Bagnoud.

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