ČESKÁ LOUTNA – BOHEMIAN LUTE RHAPSODY

Cristián Gutiérrez was born in Santiago, Chile, where he studied with Professor Ernesto Quezada at the Conservatory of Music, University of Chile. He was awarded a scholarship to travel to Spain for advanced studies with Juan Carlos Rivera (Sevilla) and Xavier Díaz-Latorre (Girona), and earned his M. A. at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under guidance of Joachim Held. He has participated in courses and seminars of Early Music, notably under the direction of Hopkinson Smith.

Cristián has recorded more than 15 CDs, including the award winning anthology of colonial music A tocar, a cantar, a baylar and his solo CD Cifras Selectas de Guitarra for the label Carpe Diem, and he has appeared on live broadcasts in Chile, Spain, France, England, Holland and Portugal. He has performed as soloist and ensemble member together with notable personalities such as Monica Huggett, Bruce Dickey, Gabriel Garrido, Manfredo Kraemer, Pedro Estevan, Charles Toet, Michael Chance and Ventura Rico. He has appeared in more than 20 countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Korea.

He is artistic leader of the trio La Pulsata. Since 2014 he is appointed Professor at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago de Chile.

Jan Čižmář studied lute at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. He is a founder of the Czech Lute Society and currently teaches at MUK Wien, AMUZ Katowice and JAMU Brno. As a scholar he is busy researching, editing, performing and recording music from central European archives.

Jan Čižmář is a versatile performer focusing on a wide range of historical plucked instruments. He performs as a soloist with renaissance and baroque repertoire as well as a chamber musician. He is a core member of {oh!} Orkiestra, Ensemble Inégal and his own ensemble Plaisirs de Musique. He has been a busy continuo player, regularly performing with groups such as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 18th century orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ensemble baroque de Limoges, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Collegium 1704, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Ensemble Elyma, Arte dei Suonatori, Vox Luminis, Florilegium and many others at concerts and opera productions across Europe, in USA and in Asia. He has worked under conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood, Giovanni Antonini, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Václav Luks.

In his non-early music past he was busy as a rock, jazz and later as a classical guitarist. He toured Europe with New York production of Jesus Christ Superstar as a rock guitarist and has often appeared on stage in theatrical/dance productions of the Lindsay Kemp Company and Leine & Roebana a.o.

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Marta Kratochvílová studovala hru na flétnu na Konzervatoři v Pardubicích a poté na JAMU v Brně. V roce 2000 zahájila studium ve Francii na Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, kde se specializovala na barokní a renesanční příčnou flétnu ve třídě J. F. Alizona a N. Hadden a na komorní hudbu ve třídách M. Gestera a P. Blanca. Zúčastnila se mistrovských kursů a stáží vedených významnými osobnostmi jako Paul McCreesh, Barthold Kuijken, Jan-Latham Koenig, Sir Neville Marriner. Ve Francii intenzivně působila jako hráčka na barokní a renesanční příčnou flétnou v souborech Le Parlement de Musique, Bohemia duo, se souborem NotaBene. V rámci renesančních workshopů (Ferrara, Mnichov, Stuttgart, Basilej) pravidelně účinkovala s Consortem renesančních fléten ze Strasbourgu.

Od roku 2010 žije v ČR a nadále pravidelně koncertuje po celé Evropě. Úzce spolupracuje především na komorních a sólových projektech s umělci jako Christophe Coin, Jan Čižmář, Karel Fleischlinger, Joel Frederiksen, Martin Jakubíček, Petr Kolař, Ján Krigovský, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Marc Vonau či Petr Wagner. Je také vedoucí consortu renesančních příčných fléten Tourdion.

Jako pedagožka s dlouholetými zkušenostmi bývá zvána k prezentacím a masterclass po celé Evropě a zároveň vyučuje soukromě hru a dobovou interpretaci na barokní a renesanční traverso.

Petr Wagner was born on 13.6.1969 in Prague. For over two decades, Petr Wagner, a viola da gamba virtuoso, has been the mainstay on European and world stages. His international reputation is supported by a series of successful records and enthusiastic reactions of expert media and the public. Whether it is during a solo performance with chamber music accompaniment or in the role of the artistic director and conductor of the Ensemble Tourbillon, he always manages to captivate his colleagues to give a supreme performance.
His extroverted musical expression and communication with the public is the fundamental element, allowing the listener of today to fully perceive the passion and diversity of the musical genre that Petr Wagner embodies.

Born in Prague, Petr Wagner studied cello at the Prague Conservatoire with Josef Chuchro. This was followed by studies in musicology at the Charles‘ University in Prague and at the Royal Holloway University of London. There he was introduced to viola da gamba by Richard Boothby, later continuing with Jaap ter Linden at the Akademie für alte Musik Dresden. After having completed his studies in Dresden, Petr was invited to study with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague where he received the Uitvoerend Musicus solo diploma.

As soloist, chamber and continuo player, Petr has appeared at numerous European festivals, as well as in other parts of the world – Israel, Japan, Mexico.

In 1998 Petr Wagner founded the Ensemble Tourbillon with internationally acclaimed musicians. Its core activities focus on 17th and 18th century repertoire, with music by Couperin, Bach, Marais, Rebel, Purcell, Finger, Fischer and Handel.

Petr regularly records and broadcasts for BBC, Polish Radio, Czech Radio and Czech TV. He has appeared on nearly 50 CDs – either as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor.

Petr Wagner died 30.12. 2019 after brave struggle with serious illness.

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