Event date
13 / 07 / 2025 - Sunday 11:00
Event type
Organ Concerts
Sunday Matinee: to the Sound of Organ and Trumpet
Jiří Houdek and Aleš Bárta will pay tribute to the royal instrument and the sonorous tones of the trumpet on Sunday morning.
Artists
Jiří Houdek – trumpet
Aleš Bárta – organ
Program
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský Sonata in G minor for Trumpet and Organ
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský: Toccata in C major
Josef Seger: Fugue in A minor
Henry Purcell: Sonata in D major for trumpet and organ
Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude
Johann Pachelbel: Ciaccona F dur
Dietrich Buxtehude: Ciaccona e moll
Jean-Baptiste Loillet: Sonáta g moll pro trubku a varhany
Johann Sebastian Bach: Pastorale F dur BWV 590
Jeremiah Clarke: Suite in D major for Trumpet and Organ
--- without intermission ---
Jiří Houdek
The winner of the 30th anniversary edition of the International Radio Competition Concertino Praga, Jiří Houdek, after graduating from the Prague Conservatory, studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and completed his education at master classes in the Czech Republic and abroad. The trumpeter has performed as a soloist with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Since 1999 Jiří Houdek has been the 1st trumpeter of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague and since 2008 he has also been the 1st trumpeter of the National Theatre Orchestra in Prague. He has appeared as a soloist with the Sinfonie Orchester Berlin and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and has also been a regular guest of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Solistes Européens Luxembourg. He is also a member of the Schagerl Artists. Since 2023 Jiří Houdek has been teaching at the Jan Deyl Conservatory.
Aleš Bárta
Winner of the Anton Bruckner International Organ Competition in Linz and laureate of the Franz Liszt International Organ Competition in Budapest, Aleš Bárta graduated from the Brno Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. As a soloist, he performs with leading symphony and chamber orchestras and collaborates with distinguished soloists and conductors, both from the Czech Republic and abroad. He has given concerts in Austria, Hungary, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Turkey, USA, Japan and China. He has also been a guest at international festivals in Tokyo, London, Zurich, Berlin, Leipzig, Avignon, Madrid, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Budapest and Bratislava. During a tour of Japan in 1998, he opened the new Minato Mirai concert hall in Yokohama with a recital. He regularly cooperates with Czech Radio, and since 1995 he has been a “soloist of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra”. He gives premieres of contemporary organ music.
Church of Corpus Christi and the Grieving Virgin Mary
Behind the baroque altar, you will find the oldest preserved organ in Český Krumlov, about which we may say that it is completely original.
