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| Who | Jiří Bárta cello Terezie Fialová piano Petr Dvorský double bass Jiří Stivín Jr. drums |
| Where | Lednice Riding Hall |
| Program | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 Johann Sebastian Bach Gavotte in B minor (Orchestral Suite in D major, BWV 1068), arr. Jacques Loussier Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) Solfeggietto in C minor, H 220, Wq. 117: 2, arr. Luca Sestak —intermission— Claude Bolling (1930–2020) Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio Dress code: Semi-Formal |
Four Czech performers – cellist Jiří Bárta, pianist Terezie Fialová, double bassist Petr Dvorský, and drummer Jiří Stivín Jr. – will venture into the fine line between jazz and classical music. Bach’s Cello suite will be followed by Jacques Loussier’s Jazz variations on Bach’s theme, and the evening will culminate with Claude Bolling’s Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio.
Leading Czech cellist Jiří Bárta studied with Josef Chuchr and Mirko Škampa in Prague, Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne, and Eleonore Schoenfeld in Los Angeles. He regularly collaborates with Czech and international orchestras and conductors, is invited to leading festivals and venues, and plays with distinguished artists. His recordings of Bach’s cello suites and Shostakovich’s and both Dvořák’s concertos for Supraphon were twice rated by Harmonie magazine as the best in their categories. London’s The Gramophone magazine awarded Editor’s Choice to his discs with Kodály’s solo sonata and cello concertos by B. Martinů, J. Foerster, and J. Novák. He performed with Magdalena Kožená on the Gramophone Award-winning album Songs for Deutsche Grammophon and with Milan Svoboda’s jazz quartet on the classical-jazz CD Znamení Střelce („Sign of Sagittarius”). Czech TV documentary Můj pokus o mistrovský opus: Jiří Bárta versus Bachovy suity directed by Jakub Sommer was awarded the general award of Cirkom Price in 2015.
Bárta returned to Bach’s cello suites for the label Animal Music – this time with a Baroque cello, and recorded Beethoven’s complete sonatas for piano and cello with pianist Terezie Fialová.
In 2008, he co-founded the International Chamber Music Festival in Kutná Hora. In the 2014 season, he was the curator of the chamber music series at the Dvořákova Praha. He plays a newly built cello by German master Dietmar Rexhausen.
The young Czech pianist and sought-after chamber musician Terezie Fialová studied piano and violin at the Brno Conservatory. However, she switched and graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the guidance of pianist Ivan Klánský. She went on to study chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (Niklas Schmidt) and participated in several masterclasses. She is a laureate of international competitions in Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia and performs at international festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad.
At the Prague Spring 2019 festival, she performed Petr Eben’s Piano Concerto in collaboration with the Prague Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen. In the same year, as a member of the Eben Trio, she gave the Czech premiere of Bent Sørensen’s Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra “L’Isolla della Cita”. She also premiered a piano quartet by English composer Edward Nesbit and a composition for cello and piano, Smutek utek, by Martin Smolka.
Terezie was the only Czech pianist to participate in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy 2013 in Switzerland, and she was invited again in 2017. She has participated in the recording of several CDs, and the album dedicated to composer Petr Eben won the Recording of the Months and IRR Outstanding awards. In 2024, she released the CD “Janáček” with cellist Jiří Bárta for the Animal Music label. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Interpretation and Theory of Interpretation at HAMU in Prague.
Double bass player Petr Dvorský graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague under Jaromír Honzák and continued his private studies of classical double bass with Jan Kmenta, Václav Fuka, and Jiří Valenta. He also participated in summer jazz workshops and courses in Puławy, Poland, near Warsaw. He collaborates with leading domestic and foreign jazz performers, and although his focus is mainly on jazz, he is also involved in classical music and other genres.
He entered the Czech scene as a member of the debuting quartet The Four, which won the international competition at the Karlovy Vary Jazz Festival in 1990. In 1992, he won second place with the Pavel Wlosok Trio at the Jazz Juniors international competition festival in Krakow, Poland. From 2004 to 2013, he was a member of the Czech Radio Big Band.
He currently performs regularly with Emil Viklický Trio and Quartet, Concept Art Orchestra, Adam Tvrdý Trio and guests in many other projects. Among his international projects, he has a long-standing collaboration with Walter Fischbacher, with whom he works on his solo projects and often accompanies several excellent soloists. In 2017, he performed with the Emil Viklický Trio feat. Ernie Adams at the Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Chicago.
Since 1998, he has been involved in the Czech Jazz Society not only as a member, but also as an editor of JAM magazine and a lecturer and later director of the Summer Jazz Workshop in Prague.
Jazz drummer Jiří Stivín was born in Prague into a musical family and has been playing percussion instruments since early childhood. Since the age of 15, he has been playing in the jazz band of saxophonist Jiří Stivín, with whom he has performed hundreds of concerts in the Czech Republic and abroad.
He studied at the Prague Conservatory under Prof. Miloš Veselý. In 2021, he completed a master’s program at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the field of jazz music. As a studio musician, he has participated in dozens of CDs by Czech and foreign artists of all genres.
He currently plays in the Emil Viklický Trio, Radek Baborák Orquestrina, Adam Tvrdý Trio and many others.
