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DESCRIPTION:Important Links and Information\n\nProgram\n\nLivestream \n\nTh
 is event is free and open to the public with general seating.\n\nTiAmo - C
 hamber Opera \n\nComposers:  Sára Medková\, Ivo Medek\, Vít Zouhar \n\n
 Performers:  ISHA Trio: Lucie Rozsnyó – soprano Hana Hána – flute an
 d voice Sára Medková – piano and voice Accompanied by Ivo Medek - chil
 dren toys\, percussion Vít Zouhar - voice and laptop Jiři Piecha - sound
   Lukáš Medek\, Sára Jedličková - video Directed by: Rocc \n\n \n\nTi
 Amo is the chamber opera teamwork about women (in 12 scenes)\, for women (
 three ladies of the ISHA trio\, Isha is a woman in Hebrew language) and (p
 artly – one composer of the three) by a woman (Sára Medková). TiAmo is
  a documentary video opera about the transformation of female roles\, desi
 res\, needs (love\, mother\, instrument\, toy…) and objects of their int
 erests. The libretto is based on news reports responding to changes in wom
 en's attitudes and rights of the last decades and changes in their percept
 ion in global society. Newspaper stories become a parallel to Ovid's Metam
 orphoses and revived legends.  \n\n \n\nAbout the team: The members of the
  team (in various combinations) have participated in successful projects a
 s multimedia projects TASTES\, Gardens or operas\, Alice in Bed\, The Deat
 h?\, Coronide\, La Dafne etc. Sára Medková  - the well-known Czech piani
 st and composer of young generation who took place at tens of renewed fest
 ivals and concert stages in the Europe\, USA and Asia. She is focused on c
 ontemporary music but also on J.S. Bach and she performed with several orc
 hestras the classical repertoire too. \n\nSára Medková is the laureate o
 f international competitions and she received various awards also for her 
 compositions. Ivo Medek – Czech composer\, organizer\, theorist and prof
 essor of composition is the highly respected personality of Czech music in
  last twenty years – as the composer with worldwide activities\, preside
 nt of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts\, director of the internati
 onal festival of new music and author of several books and tens of article
 s. \n\nVít Zouhar – Czech composer\, musicologist\, professor and vice-
 president of the Palacky University Olomouc. Reflecting the impulses of th
 e minimal music and combining them with the elements of baroque music Zouh
 ar has had a unique position in Czech contemporary music. His music is reg
 ularly presented abroad. His research and books focus on Bohuslav Martinů
 's oeuvre and composing in the classroom. \n\nLukáš Medek – Czech vide
 o-artist and computer games designer. As the member of the CBE Software  -
  the Independent Development Studio  - he produced internationally success
 ful games (J.U.L.I.A.:Among the Stars among others or Someday You’ll Ret
 urn). \n\nRocc – famous Slovenian stage director+designer\, former artis
 tic director of the Czech National Opera in Prague and later Slovenian Nat
 ional Opera in Ljubljana\, directed ca. 50 opera productions international
 ly. He has been the initiator and director of “opera povera”\, an ense
 mble focused on contemporary music-theatre. In 2018\, Rocc received the Re
 cognition for important works of art\, the highest artistic title of the U
 niversity of Ljubljana\, which is equivalent to the scientific title of Do
 ctor of Science. He also works as docent of opera acting at the Academy of
  Music in Ljubljana.
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LOCATION:Recital Hall at the Music Building
SUMMARY:Czech Festival 2023
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