Collegium Marianum - Týnská vyšší odborná škola, s.r.o.

Collegium Marianum - Ensemble in residence

is a music and dance ensemble Collegium Marianum (artistic director Jana Semerádová focussing on the authentic interpretation of pre-romantic music and the reconstruction of baroque choreographies. The ensemble was founded and has worked by the Collegium Marianum Cultural Centre for Historical Arts in Prague. Members of Collegium Marianum are foremost young Czech artists playing on historical originals and copies of period instruments. As a result of their research in the music archives in the Czech Republic and abroad, they have introduced in modern premieres a number of long-forgotten treasures of the 17th and 18th century music and dance repertoire, mostly from the region of Central Europe.

Collegium Marianum collaborats with eminent international soloists, conductors, choreographers and stage directors (Andrew Parrott, Simon Standage, Chiara Banchini, Peter Kooij, Anton Steck, Peter van Heyghen, Sigrid T´Hooft, Jean-Marc Piquemal, Benjamin Lazar, Jean-Denis Monory among others) and regularly appears in a number of prestigious international music festivals, such as Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Vantaan Barokki, Bachfest Leipzig, Mozartfest, Mitte Europa, Uckermärkische Musikwochwen, Concentus Moraviae, Festival Český Krumlov, Segni Barocchi Foligno, Dardagny, Brezice Festival and Košice Musical Spring. The ensemble has staged a number of performances in various baroque theatres throughout the Czech Republic. Collegium Marianum maintains regular collaboration with Czech TV and Czech Radio; its discography encompasses Concerti, Op. 7 by J. H. Albicastro (Pan Classic), a CD featuring the Music of Baroque Prague (2003) and Music of Baroque Prague II (2005).

Modern world and Czech premieres: J.-M. Leclair – opera Scylla et Glaucus (1999); A. Caldara – oratorio Maddalena ai piedi di Christo (2001); A. Vivaldi – serenata La Senna festeggiante (2001); J.H. Schmelzer – serenata Hercules und Onfale (2001); A. Lotti a J.D. Zelenka – sacred works (2001); A. Caldara – opera La Contesa de´Numi (2002), Ballet for the Sun King – music and dance performance (2003) Ballet des Nations (2005).

CDs:
H. Albicastro: Concerti
(in collaboration with Collegium 1704)
Music of the Baroque Prague
Music of the Baroque Prague II

 

 

Jana Semerádová

studied the transverse flute at the Prague conservatoire and at the Birmingham Conservatoire. After graduating from the Charles University in Prague, where she specialized in Music Theory and the Interpretation Practice of Early Music, she studied flauto traverso with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 2003 she received 3rd Prize in the “2. Internationalen Telemann-Wettbewerb für historische Holzblasinstrumente”. Later the same year, she was awarded 3rd Prize in the duo category of the Munich “16. Grosser Förderpreiswettbewerb”, together with the harpsichord player Monika Knoblochová. She has given concerts in prestigious festivals all over Europe and in the U.S.A. (Bachfest Leipzig, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Mozartfest, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Pražské jaro, Europamusicale, Kuhmo Festival, Vantaa Baroque, among others).

As the artistic director of Collegium Marianum, Jana Semerádová organizes its regular concert series and dance performances, but also devotes herself to intensive research in the music archives. She prepares the dramaturgy of the concert cycle Baroque Soirées and the International Music Festival Summer Festivities of Early Music. She is a regular guest of other baroque music ensembles, such as for instance Musica Aeterna, Amphion Octett, Solamente Naturali, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. She is also active as a teacher and she organizes workshops at the Collegium Marianum Centre for Historical Arts, teaches at the Prague Conservatoire and at the Masaryk University in Brno, also giving masterclasses at Janacek Academy of Music and in Lizbark Warminski in Poland. Jana Semerádová has recorded extensively for the Czech Radio and Czech TV. Another field of her interest and systematic research has been baroque gesture and rhetoric, as well as baroque dance.