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JINDRA BARTOVA Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.
Research interests: 20th-century Czech music, history of music criticism.
MICHAEL BECKERMAN Department of Music, New York University, United States.
Research interests: Czech and Eastern European music; nationalism; film music.
Professor Beckerman is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council and recipient of an Order for Merit from the Czech Parliament and the Janacek Medal from the Czech government for his research on Czech music. In 1989 he received the MLA Publication Award and in 2004 the ASCAP Deems-Taylor award for his new book, New Worlds of Dvorak. DAVID BLOCH Department of Musicology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Research interests: Music of Terezin, pre-war works of Ullmann, Haas, Krasa, Klein.
Professor Bloch is Producer and Artistic Director of the Terezin Music Memorial Project. Since its inception in 1987, the project's aim has been to produce, in collaboration with Koch International, the Terezin Music Anthology Series that will document music composed in the Terezin concentration camp. SYLVIE BODOROVA Composer. Prague, Czech Republic.
Since early 1980s her works have been performed world-wide, including the Antarctic. She is winner of several music competitions and recipient of numerous commissions, the latest from the Warwick Festival for her Terezin Ghetto Requiem. She is a member of the Czech composer collective Quattro. TIMOTHY CHEEK The University of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Research interests: Czech vocal and chamber music. Timothy Cheek, A.Mus.D., is Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, Vocal Arts and the Faculty Associate with CREES at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Cheek has held several grants, including an Olivetti Foundation Grant to perform in Italy, a Fulbright award, and an IREX grant to conduct research in the Czech Republic which led to his book Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, published by Scarecrow Press in 2001.
ERIK ENTWISTLE Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Research interests: 19th- and 20th-century Czech music
As musicologist, Dr. Entwistle has devoted much of his scholarly efforts to the music of Czech composers. He is particularly interested in Bohuslav Martinu who was the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Since 1993, he has been also actively promoting the music of Vitezslava Kapralova in lecture-recitals. As pianist, Dr. Entwistle has presented concerts and lecture-recitals of Czech music in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, as well as in Prague and in Martinu's birthplace of Policka. He has recently recorded a new CD of Martinu's piano works, featuring ten world premieres, for Summit Records. (Photo of E. Entwistle by D. Kahn)
JARMILA GABRIELOVA Institute of Musicology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Research interests: 19th-century music and music theatre, aesthetics of music, 19th- and 20th-century Czech composers, and Scandinavian music.
Past President of the Czech Musicological Society, Professor Gabrielova is a member of various advisory committees and boards of institutions in the Czech Republic, including the Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Czech Music, the International Musicological Colloquium Brno, and the Antonin Dvorak Society (Prague). Her articles on a wide range of musical subjects have appeared in Musicologia olomucensia, Miscellanea musicologica, Opus musicum, Hudebni veda, Hudebni rozhledy, and other music journals. EUGENE GATES The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada. Research interests: women composers, historical performance practice, history of opera.
His research interests include women in music, historical performance practice, and history of opera. His doctoral dissertation was on nineteenth-century women composers. His articles on women composers and other musical subjects have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Canadian Music Educator, Journal of the American Liszt Society, Music Educators Journal, Tempo, VivaVoce, Czech Music, and University of Toronto Quarterly. ANTONIN KUBALEK The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada.
In 1968, Antonin Kubalek left Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Canada where he re-established his career, performing frequently with the Toronto Symphony and other orchestras. In addition to his concert activities, he has made numerous recordings for Dorian Recordings and has been featured by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in many concert broadcasts. He has the distinction of being the only artist to have made a recording on which the late Glenn Gould served as producer (the 2nd Piano sonata by Korngold). Antonin Kubalek is President of the Fred Gaviller Memorial Fund - a charity sponsoring debut recitals of Canadian musicians - and chairman of the Kapralova Society Advisory Committee. For more information on Antonin Kubalek visit his website at www.antoninkubalek.com.
MILAN KYMLICKA Arranger, Composer, Conductor. Toronto, Canada.
Specialization: Film and radio drama music
Milan Kymlicka has written scores for a number of feature films, TV series, and some forty CBC radio dramas. Besides his work for the entertainment industry Kymlicka continues writing chamber music. Among his more recent compositions are a Sonatina, Four Pieces, Four Valses, and Five Preludes for piano, Two Dances for clarinet and piano, Partissima for solo violin, and Cassation for two violins, viola, clarinet, and bassoon. ODALINE DE LA MARTINEZ Composer, Conductor. London, United Kingdom.
JAN SMACZNY School of Music, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Research interests: Czech music (Dvorak, opera, 18th-20th centuries); music of the French Baroque
Professor Smaczny was educated at the University of Oxford and the Charles University, Prague. Since 1996 he has been the Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen's University, Belfast. A frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 3 and 4, he regularly writes reviews for The BBC Music Magazine, the Opera Magazine and The Independent.
MILOS STEDRON Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.Research interests: 20th-century music, music of the Renaissance and Baroque.
KERRY STRATTON Conductor. Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada.
Special interest: Czech music
A long-time devotee of Czech music, Kerry Stratton's Dorian recording of works by Slavic composers with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra has earned him high praise in record reviews. He has also recorded for the Hungaroton label, leading the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere recording of Franz Liszt's De Profundis. |