Wednesday 5 February
10:00 > 12:30 I 14:00 > 16:00 : masterclass

17:00 : concert
Martinu, Schumann, Poulenc, Loudova, Wajsar
Karel Dohnal & Igor Frantisak, clarinet
Julie Delbart, piano

Thursday 6 February
10:00 > 12:30 I 14:00 > 17:00 : masterclass

Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles I Chêne Site I Joseph Jongen Auditorium
Rue du Chêne 17 - 1000 Brussels - BELGIUM

Coordination I Jean-Marc Fessard

Karel Dohnal is a laureate of many international competitions (Prague, Roma, London, Sevilla, Ostende, Bayreuth). Studied in Prague, London, Berlin, Hilversum and St. Petersburg. Giving concerts through Europe, North America and Asia., performing wide variety of repertoire from Mozart, Weber, to Penderecki, Nielsen, Francaix, and world premiere concertos. Karel also regularly engages in chamber music, cooperating with Tokyo, Haas, Talich, Wihan String Quartets, Prague PhilHarmonia Octet, famous soprano Edita Gruber and others. He is a member of PhilHarmonia Octet, Trio Amadeus and Prague State Opera Orchestra. Last but not least, he intensively studies and performs contemporary music. His doctorate was focused on contemporary clarinet techniques. His performance of Stockhausenś Harlekin, containing also dancing and pantomime, has been highly acclaimed. Regularly gives master classes both in Czech and abroad. He has numerous recordings in Czech Radio and on CD’s. He is teaching clarinet at the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Ostrava. Karel is sponsored by Selmer and D’Addario Woodwinds and plays on Selmer Privilege clarinets.

Igor Františák studied at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava in the clarinet class of associate professor Valter Vítek, with whom he continued his education at the art-teaching department of the University of Ostrava. In 2001, he received a government scholarship to the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he studied in the class of Prof. Hans Christian Braein. During his studies Igor participated in many international seminars and interpretation courses (Michel Arrignon, Eric Hoeprich, Charles Neidich, Christian Leitherer, Milan Etlík, Andrzej Janicki, Wenzel Grund). He performed as a soloist with the Janáček Philharmonic (conductors: Jakub Hrůša, Vladimír Válek, Valentin Urjupin, Heiko Mathias Förster), the Bohdan Warchal Slovak Chamber Orchestra, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Talich Chamber Orchestra, INTER>Camerata (conductor: Jan Jakub Bokun), the Pavel Haas, the Bennewitz, the Talich, the Škampa, the Zemlinsky and others. He is a founding member of the Stadler Clarinet Quartet and the Ensemble Moravia, with which he won the 1st prize in 2002 at the „Marco Fiorindo“ International Chamber Music Competition in Turin. Recently, he has been devoted to the study of period interpretation on chalumeau, baroque clarinets and classical clarinets (Collegium 1704, Musica Florea, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal). Since 2002, he has been a co-founder and a teacher at the annual international interpretation courses for clarinet a saxophone in Ostrava. Currently, in addition to his concert activities, he is a lecturer of clarinet and chamber music at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Ostrava. Igor Františák is an artist of Buffet Crampon and D´Addario Woodwinds.
 

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