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CENTRAL EUROPEAN MUSIC AGENCY
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CONDUCTOR SINGERS PIANO HARPSICHORD ORGAN HARP VIOLA CELLO FRENCH HORN ENSEMBLES PROJECTS |
| CAMAEL The music group CAMAEL was formed in 2002 by a female vocal trio accompanied by a quintet of instrumentalists that perform successfully in diverse music genres - from folk, jazz, musicals, to world and classical music. They're all bound together by their common passion for world and traditional folk music. CAMAEL took part in the Tschechien in Europhorie festival in Vienna, at the Concentus Moravia festival and in Eubabrunn as part of the Czech Dreams project in the Mitte Europa festival. This year the group is looking forward to taking part in the Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk in Belgium and it will also perform in Yvetot in France, in Utrecht, in the club Moods im Schiffbau in Zurich and in Nachtazyl in Vienna. As of September 2005, the original name of the group "Triny+3My" was changed to CAMAEL. CAMAEL made its debut at MOVE Festival of European Music at Palace Akropolis in Prague 2005, presented itself at the festival United Islands of Prague (2006), International Film Festival Karlovy Vary (2006) and was again a guest group of the festival Mitte Europa (2006). WHY "CAMAEL"? CAMAEL, archangel of the Lord's justice and relation among people, a patron giving us our personal strength and determination to fulfill the goal of our life. To free ourselves from the bonds of the past, we must get through the healing and purifying process, dancing and singing, expressing ourselves and simply being one's own man. Then, by our inner way and experience, we will reach the point where the light and shadow inside us come to their original unity and become light again…Archangel CAMAEL helps us to overcome our fears and to transform the dark and draw back parts of our soul into light. And thus the best by music reaching our long past roots and traditions - with joy, love, spontaneously and fully engaged. That is the music group CAMAEL, excellent musicians bound together by passion and enthusiasm for traditional folk music. During concerts they pass their personal joy of playing music together on the public and receive spontaneous wild ovations. The singing part of the music group CAMAEL is made up by a femail vocal trio named TRINY, which performs and prepares original Gypsy melodies arranged for three voices. It now sings Moravian songs as well. As a separate group, TRINY has performed at international Czech festivals such as "Struny podzimu" (Autumn Strings) and Khamoro, and abroad in Moscow, Ireland, Beirut. Iveta Kovacova is the author of all vocal arrangements. She studied singing at the Prague Conservatory and performed as a guest with the music groups "Bacily" and "Naima" (jazz group) and she appeared as a guest star in the musicals "Hair" and "The Rat Catcher". She is the founder and the leader of the music group TRINY. Dagmar Podkonicka graduated from the Prague conservatory. For many years, she was a member of the country group Sally Rose Band, which focused on American country music. Thanks to this experience she later became also a TV presenter and moderator of the popular TV program "Country plus". She has performed in other popular musicals such as "Dracula", "Cleopatra", "Three musketeers" and "The Rat Catcher". Jana Prochazkova graduated from the private musical school of Petr Novotný which educates future musical singers. She founded her own private musical school and was its director for 2 years. She moved to Prague to take advantage of the opportunity to perform as a star in the musical "The Rat Catcher". Based on this success she received further invitations to star at other popular musicals, such as "Hair", "Beauty and the Beast" and in "Hamlet". Musicians - Instrumentalists: Pavel Fischer - violin, vocals Pavel Fischer is the founder of the group CAMAEL and the author of instrumental arrangements. He graduated the Prague conservatory and the music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the class of Nora Grumlíková. He focused intensively on chamber music during his studies, taking First prize and the Grand Prix winner at the Chamber Music Competition at Trapani in 1988 in Italy (Duo violin and piano). In 1989 he founded the now world famous "Skampa quartet", in which he plays first violin. Vrey Nederlanden ranks Skampa quartet among the world's 10 top contemporary string quartets. Martin Kaplan - violin, vocals Native of Karlovy Vary and graduate of the music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the class of Ivan Straus. During his studies he regularly participated at the international music courses in Sienna (Italy) where he studied with Jurij Belkin and Oto Ughi. At the moment, Martin Kaplan is the concert master of the J.K. Tyl opera theater and a pedagogue at the Conservatory of music in Pilsen. He plays classical music as well as a wide range of other genres (traditional, folk, jazz, country). Improvisation is another of his musical talents, placing him in the ranks of polished Czech musicians capable of excelling in all types of musical genres. Josef Fiala - viola, singing Native from Mariánské Lázně district and graduate of the music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from the studio of Lubomír Malý. Currently, he is a pedagogue at the Conservatory of music in Pilsen and member of Giovanni quartet. In the Czech traditional music scene, he is irreplaceable for his excellent improvisational skills, adaptations and arrangement abilities. Along witj traditional folk music, he is also interested in baroque music played on original historical instruments, based on deep studies of the original historical interpretation. Jiri Zelba - oboe, English horn, recorder, viola, singing and anything else that can be played… The first music instrument he studied to play on in a music school was a violin. However later he studied oboe at the Prague conservatory and music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studio of Pavel Verner and Jiří Mihule. Since 1989 he has been member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as the second oboe and English horn player. For several years he has also performed with the music group Chorea Bohemica, focused on Czech traditional music, where he has had the opportunity to concentrate on perfecting his knowledge of traditional music under the tutelage of Jaroslav Krček. In his free time he takes every opportunity to to play with professional or amateur Czech traditional music groups. Frantisek Raba - contrabass, vocals. CAMAEL is rounded out by double bassist František Raba, whose musical journey has taken him from the Prague Symphony Orchestra to the huge musical projects such as "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Evita", "Grease", Cleopatra…Having graduated from the Prague conservatory, he has also performed and recorded with a number of music groups covering diverse musical genres - TOČR, Golem, KGB, The Orchestra of Karel Vlach, Nerez, Zuzana Navarová and the group KOA..... and also famous Czech soloists - Rudolf Rokl, Ivan Kral, Radim Hladík. |
