Bieber Mysterien
Rosary sonatas

Künstler

• Lucie Sedláková Hůlová (CZ) – violin
  Violinist Lucie Sedláková Hůlová is a graduate of the Conservatory in Prague and the Faculty of Music of the AMU. He has hundreds of successful concert performances all over the world. As a soloist, she collaborates with various partners and orchestras, is a sought-after chamber player, and is also engaged in teaching activities. Her musical role model was her father, the violinist Pavel Hůla, with whom she often and enjoyed playing. After his death, she took over the artistic direction of the chamber orchestra Praga Camerata, of which she has been a member and soloist since its foundation in 2001. At the same time, she is the principal of the Praga Camerata Quintet. Together with her husband, cellist Martin Sedlák, they form the Czech String Duo and with their two children, Magdalena and Lukáš, perform as Sedlák Virtuosi. In 1998, Lucie and Martin founded a piano trio, which has been called Kinsky Trio Prague since 2004, and where they now play with pianist Veronika Böhmová. For several seasons, Lucie worked in youth orchestras (European Union Orchestra, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra), where she collaborated with the world's most famous conductors and soloists and gained valuable experience. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer and since 2019 the artistic director of international chamber music courses "PELLEGRINA with the Kinsky trio and friends". She is regularly invited to the chamber music courses of the Martinů Quartet "PLAYWIP". He also deals with the historically informed interpretation of early music. In this area, he cooperates with renowned ensembles (e.g. Musica Florea, Capella Regia, Collegium 1704, Capella Ornamentata, etc.) and soloists. In 2020, together with the organist Jaroslav Tůma, they recorded the complete cycle of Biber's Růženc sonatas in the original scordatures and on period instruments on 2 CDs for the ARTA publishing house. This album was even named "the best Czech violin project of 2020" in Harmonie magazine in terms of dramaturgical contribution. Lucie plays a rare violin from the workshop of Mathias Albanus from 1696, which at one time was owned by Master Jaroslav Kocian, and a copy of Giuseppe Guarneri's Baroque violin made by Dalibor Bzirský. lucie.kinskytrio.cz
• Jaroslav Tůma (CZ) – organ, harpsichord
  Jaroslav Tůma was born in 1956. He is a concert organist and professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He also performs on harpsichord, clavichord, pianoforte and other keyboard instruments. He is also dedicated to musical composition. He studied at the Prague Conservatory with prof. Jaroslav Vodrazky and AMU in Prague with prof. Milan Šlechta (organ) and prof. Zuzana Růžičková (harpsichord). He is the winner of the first prizes in organ improvisation competitions in Nuremberg in 1980 and in Haarlem, Holland in 1986; he is the laureate of a number of interpretation organ competitions, e.g. in Linz in 1978, in the Prague Spring Competition in 1979, in the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1980 and many others. As part of his rich concert activity, he visited almost all European countries, repeatedly also the USA, and since the nineties almost every year Japan, as well as Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Japan, Mongolia, Singapore, the Republic of South Africa, etc. He collaborated with a number of top domestic and foreign soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras. He is also active as a chairman or a member of juries of international music competitions, he passes on his interpretation experience at domestic and international organ courses and seminars. Tům's repertoire includes key compositions by Czech and international composers in a wide range of styles from the Renaissance to the 21st century. His discography so far includes 68 solo titles released on the one hand by Supraphon (until 2002), on the other hand by Arta Records (from 1991 to the present), he also released several titles in Germany and Poland. J. Tůma also filmed a large number of projects for the Czech Radio, apart from a set of piano sonatas by Jan Ladislav Dusík, these are mainly pictures taken on historic organs in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. In 2010, he was appointed titular organist at Svatá Hora in Příbram, where between 2020 and 2022 he recorded the complete organ work by J.S. Bach in an audiovisual version in the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the organ of Vladimír Šlajch from 2018, which he supplemented with dedicated comments. Numerous audiovisual recordings of Jaroslav Tůma's concerts from recent years are available on the website. Jaroslav Tůma is also the author of the music for Pavel Koutecký's film The Transformation of Prague Castle, several collections of organ pieces and a number of professional publications. In 2025, Jaroslav Tům was awarded the annual prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for his successful artistic, pedagogical, publishing and popularizing activities. jaroslavtuma.cz

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