Ratiboř

Carl Ditters and his contemporaries - Czech classics 20 October 2019 at 16:30 in the church in Ratiboř.

Performed by the Stupka Quartet:
Vladimír Žůrek and Martina Fischerová - violin, Jiří Kobza - viola David Kostrhon - violoncello
Co-performers:
Markéta Cabajová - flute

PROGRAMME

- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: String Quartet No.2 in B flat major (1739-1799) / Moderato / Andante / Thema con Variatione
- Jakub Jan Ryba: Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello (1765-1815) / Allegro maestoso / Andante poco adagio / Finale.Allegro
- Pavel Vranický: String Quartet in G major Op.23 No.5 (1756-1808) / Allegro molto / Poco adagio / Menuetto.Allegretto / Rondo.Allegro

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stupka Quartet
The history of the quartet began in 1981, and its two founding members - the primary violinist Vladimír Žůrek and the violist Jiří Kobza - are still playing today. For the last twenty years the ensemble has included members of the Moravian Philharmonic Martina Fischerová and David Kostrhon. Since 2013, Václav David, a member of the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, has also appeared at the viola console. The quartet has performed 450 concerts, some of which have taken place in places where history (not only musical history) was written. In 2012, they gave a concert at the famous Carolinas in Prague, where 4 hundred people came. The project Confrontation - Czech Chamber Music in the Changes of Time from 2014 brought the quartet the Olomouc Region Prize for exceptional achievement in the field of music. In their performance, the audience heard classical world repertoire: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and others. Sluka, Hanuš, Zamečník, Vičar, Juřica, Vrbík, Juřica, Zamečník, Vičar, Vrbík.... The staging of a string quartet by Olomouc native Egon Kornauth for foreign tours (Germany, Austria) was exceptional.
The Stupka Quartet has taken part in important chamber music festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Brandýs Music Festival - concert in tribute to the Czech Quartet, Ditters Festival in Javorník, Camerata nova in Náchod, Czech-Saxon Festival, etc.). The ensemble has made a number of radio recordings, recorded 3 CDs (Green to Contemporary Chamber Music in 2011, Musical Bridge Olomouc - Vienna in 2015 and an album of compositions by Stanislav Vrbík in 2018). There is also a DVD from 2013 called Chronicle of the Stupek Quartet (Youtube). In 2018, the project Tribute to Franz Schubert in Jesenick was realized and a series of concerts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Czechoslovakia was held.

Markéta Cabajová - transverse flute
Graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium) in the field of flute performance, where she studied in the master's programme under the pedagogical guidance of Marc Grauwels. She completed her education in the field of authentic performance at Masaryk University in Brno - focusing on the flute traverso. She participated in a number of master classes in her field: pedagogical guidance by Philippe Bernold, Barthold Kuijken, Joshua Smith, Jan Kvapil, etc. She has also performed at European festivals (Concerto Bohemia, Janáček May Ostrava, International Music Festival in Poland, Music Festival in Belgium). In 2013, she performed together with Marc Grauwels and Camerata Moravia in the SPKH at the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc in Reduta, from which the CD "Marc Grauwels, Markéta Cabajová & Camerata Moravia live" was made. In 2016 she performed solo with the MFO. She is a teacher and teaches flute. In 2018 she collaborated with the Stupka Quartet in the Kramář Flute Quintet.