Event date
12 / 07 / 2025 - Saturday 10:30
Event venue
Event type
New Connections
New Connection: Listening Eyes
A travelling concert hall reminiscent of UFOs will make Český Krumlov ring with installations and tailor-made music in a renewed premiere. The audience will also be able to join in.
Artists
Kateřina Vincourová – visual artist
Miroslav Srnka – music for Listening Eyes
David Danel – violin, artistic direction
Masterclass participants
Program
Miroslav Srnka: Listening Eyes
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Kateřina Vincourová
An artist working in the medium of installation and object making, she studied for two years at the Surikova Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She completed fellowships at the DAAD in Berlin and the Headlands Centre for Art in California. Kateřina Vincourová creates complex works that transform the gallery space, drawing on its spatial possibilities and often moving within them. The artist critically comments on the world of consumer culture and consumerism and comments on the human preoccupation with the world of things. The objects she designs often invert the positions of inside and outside, raising the question of how much objects manipulate users. Winner of the Alexander Dorner Prize in Hanover and the first woman to also receive the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize, she introduced, among other things, distinctive feminine themes into contemporary domestic art in the 1990s. She has had solo exhibitions at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Centre and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.
Miroslav Srnka
A professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne and a sought-after adjudicator for competitions such as the Mahler Competition in Bamberg and the Maurizio Kagel Composition Competition, Miroslav Srnka studied musicology at the Charles University and composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The breakthrough in his musical career was the performance of the opera South Pole at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under the direction of Kirill Petrenko in a production by Hans Neuenfels. The works of the winner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composer Prize have been performed by leading orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and many others.
David Danel
David Danel, a graduate of the Janáček Conservatory Ostrava, University of Ostrava, is looking for ways to bring the violin into new media. Winner of awards from national and international competitions, including the Ludwig van Beethoven International Violin Competition and the Leoš Janáček Violin Competition, he was a member of the Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and a guest lecturer at the University of Ostrava. From 2012-2015 he also taught violin at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague and since 2005 he has regularly coached young talented violinists and chamber ensembles at the international summer courses of the Crescendo Summer Institute of the Arts in Tokaj, Hungary. He is one of the few people in the Czech Republic who is dedicated to contemporary music and its interpretation, he is also the initiator of many projects related to it and a member of the Art Discussion. In addition, he is active in several musical ensembles and groups, including the string quartet Fama Q, which he founded, and the Prague Modern ensemble, of which he is the artistic director. David Danel has performed with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Capella Istropolitana, Talich Chamber Orchestra and Bohdan Warchal Slovak Chamber Orchestra. He has also completed a Spanish solo tour with Brno chamber soloists and performed at numerous festivals in the Czech Republic (Prague Spring, Contempuls, Music Olomouc, Forfest Kroměříž) and abroad. He has also been a guest concertmaster of the Bilbao Philharmonia, the Berg Orchestra, the Oratorio Project and the Crescendo Summer Institute Orchestra. He frequently premieres new works by Czech composers.
Port 1560 – courtyard
The courtyard of Port 1560 is an integral part of the former Schwarzenberg brewery, which became the cultural and social centre of Český Krumlov. Port means entrance, gate, harbour. And the date 1560? The year when beer was first brewed in the forecourt of Český Krumlov. It was Eggenberg beer. The oldest, most historically valuable […]
