The Year of Czech Music
in the Podyjí National Park

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
  Sébastien Bagnoud has been conducting orchestras in Switzerland and the Czech Republic for over a decade. He is one of the founders of a professional ensemble in Sion (CH) in 2012, the Sedunum String Orchestra (SSO), and the Opera Studio Prague (CZ) association in 2016, which has recently staged two critically acclaimed productions, including the comic opera “Časoplet” by the young Czech composer Lukáš Sommer, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czech Republic. In 2014, he organised and conducted the resident orchestra at the international festival Les Sommets du Classique in Crans-Montana (CH). Sébastien Bagnoud made his debut in Lausanne in 2014 in an opera production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. In 2015, he accepted a last-minute offer to stand in for the musical director of the Opéra du Rhône in Valais (CH) in a production of Rossini’s William Tell in Martigny. Soon after, he was appointed conductor and, in 2017, he conducted Orpheus in the Underworld; in March 2020, he will collaborate on The Barber of Seville. From 2015 to 2017, he was also appointed musical assistant at the opera of the J. K. Tyl Theatre (CZ) in Pilsen. He regularly conducted Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin and Weber’s opera Der Freischütz. In August 2018, he was also assistant to Maestro John Fiore in a production of Carmen at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva. In the 2019-2020 season, he will make his debut with the Teplice Philharmonic (CZ), and in the 2020-2021 season, with the National Theatre Ostrava (CZ). Sébastien Bagnoud has had the opportunity to collaborate with the following orchestras: the Brno Philharmonic, the Prague Philharmonia (PKF), the Academic Chamber Soloists (AKS) Prague, the Orchestra of the Opéra du Rhône, the Collegium Magistrorum Mikulov, the Orchestra of the Opera of the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, the Olomouc Philharmonic, the VOC Valais Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne. He has participated in many festivals, such as the Beirut Chants Festival in Lebanon, the Sion Festival (CH), the Crans-Montana Classics Festival (CH), the Bohuslav Martinů Days (CZ), the Ludwig van Beethoven Music Festival in Teplice (CZ), and others. Sébastien Bagnoud obtained a professional certificate in wind ensemble conducting from the Fribourg Conservatory, a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne (HEMU), a DAS (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in orchestral conducting from the Haute École de Musique in Bern (HKB), and in 2018, he completed a second master’s degree in orchestral and opera conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU). He recently received the Yuri Simonov Prize in the finals of the Audite International Conducting Competition in Radom, Poland.
• 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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Admission on site: standard admission €15, reduced €12, persons under 12 free

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