Strings of Autumn 2010

STRINGS OF AUTUMN

JAZZ CLASSICS TRADITION EXPERIMENT

International music festival

15th Year

Prague, 19 September–21 November 2010

15 YEARS OF STRINGS OF AUTUMN – 15 years of discovery

It is fifteen years since the first Strings of Autumn festival took place in 1996. Since that time, the festival has established itself as one of the best-loved and most-respected in Prague, with its eclectic mix of jazz, classical, and world music and its appetite for musical discovery. The fifteenth anniversary will be marked by this year’s Inspirations series, which sees the return of three artists whose first appearances were landmarks in the festival’s history – each in a new concert programme and in venues new to Strings.

Programm:

INSPIRATION

15 Years of Inspiration

Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble

19^th September 2010, National Memorial, Vítkov

Brad Mehldau & Anne Sofie von Otter

26^th October 2010, Municipal House

REFLECTIONS 2010 (Jiří Bárta, Jana Boušková, Radek Baborák, Ludmila Peterková a others)

7^th November 2010, National Memorial, Vítkov

CROSSOVER

Blurring the boundaries

David Orlowsky Trio

7^th October 2010, Spanish Synagogue

Alash

21^st October 2010, Czech Museum of Music

Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider

31^st October 2010, Prague Crossroads

LUMINARIES

Stars and Legends

Julia Fischer & Milana Chernyavska

12^th October 2010, Prague Crossroads

Dowland Project

3^rd November 2010, Church of Our Lady before Týn

Dianne Reeves

21^st November 2010, Prague Congress Centre

SPOTLIGHT

Cutting-Edge Talents

Vijay Iyer Trio

18^th October 2010, Lucerna Music Bar

INFORMACE O KONCERTECH:

19^th September 2010, 7.30 pm

National Memorial, Vítkov

JAN GARBAREK– saxophones

HILLIARD ENSEMBLE

David James – countertenor

Rogers Dovez-Crump – tenor

Steven Harrold – tenor

Gordon Jones – baritone

‘Officium Novum’: Sacred music from the 13^th to 16^th centuries brought alive by vocal quartet and jazz saxophone. Czech debut: Strings of Autumn, 29^th November 1997.

7^th October 2010, 7.30 pm

Spanish Synagogue

DAVID ORLOWSKY TRIO

David Orlowsky – clarinet

Jens-Uwe Popp – guitar

Florian Dohrmann – double bass

Nessiah: World music performed with the precision and subtlety of the best chamber music. A fresh approach to the klezmer tradition. PREMIERE

12^th October 2010, 7.30 pm

Prague Crossroads (St Anne’s Church)

JULIA FISCHER – violin

Milana Chernyavska – piano

Widely held as one of the most impressive contemporary classical violinists and still only 26, Julia Fischer plays an intimate solo concert in St Anna’s church.

18^th October 2010, 7.30 pm

Lucerna Music Bar

VIJAY IYER TRIO

Vijay Iyer – piano

Stephen Crump – bass

Marcus Gilmore – drums

The preeminent rising star of the jazz world, whose latest album Historicity was on several critics‘ ‚best-of-the-year‘ lists for 2009, makes his Czech Republic debut as the centrepiece of Strings of Autumn’s new Spotlights programme.

21^st October 2010, 7.30 pm

Czech Museum of Music

ALASH

Nachyn Choodu – voice, byzaanchy, chadagan, igil, xomus

Bady-Dorzhu Ondar – voice, igil, guitar

Ayan-ool Sam – voice, doshpuluur, igil, guitar

Ayan Shirizhik - voice, kengirge, shyngyrash, shoor, murgu, xomus

PREMIERE: Strings of Autumn’s yearly exploration of unorthodox vocal styles continues with this Siberian throat-singing quartet.

26^th October 2010, 7.30 pm

Municipal House

BRAD MEHLDAU– piano

ANNE SOFIE von OTTER – mezzosoprano

Love Songs: Jazz’s enfant terrible returns to Strings of Autumn for his third appearance, this time in tandem with one of the world’s most sought-after opera singers. A meeting of two musicians who blur the lines between genres. Czech debut: Strings of Autumn, 5th November 2006.

31^st October 2010, 7.30 pm

Prague Crossroads (St Anne’s Church)

KAYHAN KALHOR – kamancheh

BROOKLYN RIDER

Colin Jacobsen – violin, JohnnyGendelsman – violin, NicholasCords – viola, EricJacobsen – cello, JeffreyBeecher – double bass, MarkSuter – percussion

Silent City: A hypnotising, seamless mix of Classical and world music elements in this meeting of charismatic Iranian ‚kamanche‘ virtuoso and critically-acclaimed New York string ensemble. PREMIERE

3^rd November 2010, 8 pm

Church of Our Lady before Týn

THE DOWLAND PROJECT

John Potter – tenor

John Surman – bass clarinet, flutes

Miloš Valent – violin, viola

Stephen Stubbs – baroque guitar, vihuela

Romaria: With a programme ranging from 12th-century sacred music to Iberian folk songs via troubadour ballads, trailblazing British tenor John Potter brings his innovative early music project to Prague for the first time. PREMIERE

7^th November 2010, 7.30 pm

National Memorial, Vítkov

REFLECTIONS 2010

Jiří Bárta – cello

Jana Boušková – harp

Radek Baborák – French horn

Ludmila Peterková – clarinet

Marie Hřebíčková – soprano (recorded)

Miroslav Ambrož – violin

KarelUntermüller– viola

JakubFišer– viola, violin

František Raba – double bass

Bořek ŠÍPEK – sets and visual art design

The Czech Republic’s foremost cellist brings together some of the finest young classical musicians in the country for a concert of meditative music in unique surroundings. Premiere concert: Strings of Autumn, 13 October 2002.

21^st November 2010, 7.30 pm

Prague Congress Centre

Closing Concert

DIANNE REEVES – vocals

Peter Martin – piano

Terreon Gully – drums

Reginald Veal – double bass

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Prague Philharmonia

From one jazz great to another: vocalist Dianne Reeves performs her orchestral tribute to the unforgettable Sarah Vaughan.