— Early Music Concert Series —
Where | Bučovice château | |||||||||
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When Schedule |
1–6 July 2019 | |||||||||
Dance (Lecturers) |
Emmanuel Soulhat-Goudon (FR) — Dance master |
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Music (Lecturers) |
Jörn Boysen (DE/NL) — Harpsichord, Improvisation María Sánchez Ramírez (ES/NL) — Cello Marta Kratochvílová (CZ) — Traverso Marc Hervieux (FR) — Recorder Jan Čižmář (CZ) — Lutes etc., Improvisation |
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How much Price list |
The “V4 price” (−30% on course fee) is for participants
from the Visegrád countries (CZ/HU/PL/SK). |
This course is dedicated to baroque dance and dance music and is intended for active participants focusing on …
For the public we recommend the opening performance of the tutors and the final performance of the course participants. We also offer passive participation on any day of the course for anyone interested in historical dance and music and their performance practice. Passive participants may attend all lessons during the day and in the evening join actively in the counterdances.
Day by day, we will focus on these baroque dance forms:
Please check the corresponding boxes in the registration form. The number of participants is limited.
[1] Registration 13:00–14:00 in the foyer of hotel Arkáda, afterwards in the château. Telephone +420 606 222 416.
[2] Excursions to Austerlitz etc. for those dancers who are not needed for Step by step (voluntary participation, minimum 4 persons).
[3] Some groups may be focusing on Improvisation of dance music.
[4] Refreshments (snacks) are available throughout this period.
[5] Dinner will be served in wine cellar Rustico, Slavkovská 84.
Zámek 1,
68501 Bučovice,
Czech Republic
Lessons will be in the renaissance
château in Bučovice
.
It is a unique building in the late Italian renaissance (mannerist) style (1575–1585),
the courtyard features arcaded loggias and a newly renovated and fully operational Dionysus fountain
from 1635, and the château contains many reliefs and paintings, some with musical themes.
Two of the halls available in the château have a wooden dance floor.
Lunch and dinner can be ordered in the café in the château (Kavárna na zámku, restaurant Litovel). The meals must be selected from the fixed menus before the course.
For accommodation, we recommend Hotel Arkáda
(náměstí Svobody 32, 68501 Bučovice), located just 150 metres from the château. This
is a quality accommodation in 2- and 3-bed rooms with private bathroom and facilities,
Wi-Fi and coffee service in the room.
You can book a room in Hotel Arkáda through our
registration form.
This is cheaper (group booking), but you may be sharing room with other course
participants.
As an inexpensive alternative, we offer 10–20 places for sleeping bags in the House for Children and Youth (Vyškovská 376, 68501 Bučovice). It has a big room that is used during the day as a children’s playground. For this reason, it is necessary to vacate the place at 8:15, you can return any time after 16:00. Please bring your own sleeping bag. The house has mattresses, two showers and a small kitchen.
Hotel Arkáda | House for Children and Youth | |
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Address (with map) | nám. Svobody 32 | Vyškovská 376 |
Walking distance | 150 m (2 min) | 850 m (16 min) |
Wheelchair accessible | Yes † | No |
Room size | 2- and 3-bed | Dorm room |
Sanitary facilities | At the room | In the corridor |
Access to kitchen | No | Yes |
Wi-fi / WLAN | Yes | No |
Accommodation for 5 nights | 2975 Kč | 400 Kč § |
Breakfast for 5 days | Included | Not offered |
Lunch and dinner for 5 days | 1000 Kč |
† Hotel Arkáda has an elevator, there is a wheelchair accessible toilet on the ground floor.
§ The prices for the dormitory are without breakfast.
Emmanuel Soulhat started at the Jeune Ballet International in Cannes, directed by Rosella Hightower. He was engaged by Maîa Plissetskaîa for creating, performing and rehearsing at the Bolshoi Theatre, by the Théâtre Chorégraphique de Rennes et de Bretagne, directed by Gigi Cacuileanu, by the Ballet-Théâtre Russillo in Toulouse, the Ballet Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence, and by Michel Kéléménis at the Marseilles Opera. Further lyrical operas lead him to the Palais Garnier and the Bastille Opera with Les Arts Florissants, La Fura dels Baus, Robert Carsen, Dmitri Tcherniakov, choreographies by Philippe Giraudeau, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Denni Sayers, Maurice Béjart. With these ensembles he toured the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Russia.
He discovered baroque dance with Béatrice Massin for the film Le Roi Danse in France and Germany, then worked with Bob Wilson at the Théâtre du Châtelet, La Comédie Française, the Paris Opera, and at Watermill Center in the United States. He was hired by Christine Bayle for dance, music and theatre creations of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries after Thoinot Arbeau’s Orchésographie, an Instruction pour danser (from the time of Henry IV) and Apologie de la danse and Louange de la Dance (from the time of Louis XIII); choreographies in the later style of la belle danse after Le maître à danser and the publications of Feuillet. Emmanuel performed these productions at the Royaumont Festival, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Palace of Versailles and the Imperial Theatre in Compiègne, as well as on tours in Slovenia, China and Japan.
In addition, he participated in the productions of the Compagnie de Danse l’Eventail directed by Marie-Geneviève Massé at the Royal Opera of Versailles and at the Opéra-Comique (Paris), Artemis at the Royan Theatre, the Vaux-le-Vicomte château, in churches and temples. The choreographer was invited by the ensembles of Marc Hervieux in Strasbourg, Dominique Corbiau in France and Belgium, Jean-Sébastien Beauvais for the BaroQuiales in Sospel, Trio Nitétis at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris. He directed the Sleeping Beauty, in which he also danced, at the châteaus of Sully and Pierrefonds, the Magnin Museum (Dijon), the Hôtel de Miramion (Paris) and the Conservatoire de Créteil.
Emmanuel Soulhat teaches La belle danse at summer courses (e. g., BaroQuiales Sospel, Académie de Neuwiller) and at institutions such as Conservatoire de Nice.
Teaching languages: FR, (EN), (ES).
Harpsichordist, conductor and composer Jörn Boysen was born in Lübeck, Germany. After his studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck he went to the Netherlands where he studied with Tini Mathot and Ton Koopman at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. As founder and director of Musica Poetica, guest conductor, soloist or continuo player, he regularly performs in Germany, the Netherlands and France.
He was invited to European festivals such as Festival Mitte Europa, Göttinger Händel Festspiele, Delft Chamber Music Festival, Itinéraire Baroque and the Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek. Boysen worked with Alina Ibragimova, Lisa Ferschtman and regularly records and performs with Antoinette Lohmann (Furor Musicus). He conducted productions of the O. T. Opera Rotterdam (Orfeo Intermezzi, 2005) and the Utrechtse Spelen (Molière’s/Charpentier’s Imaginary Invalid, 2009 and 2011) for whose productions he has also composed music. In 2012 he was music director of Opéra Mosset in France. He is artistic director of concert organisation Musica Antica da Camera in The Hague.
Boysen composed various orchestral, chamber and vocal works. In 2011, he completed Bach’s St. Mark Passion by composing all missing recitatives, turba-choirs and arias. His works have been commissioned and performed by Musica Poetica (NL), De Nederlandse Bachverniging, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado (USA), by soloists of Pratum Integrum (RUS) and of the Berlin Philharmonics (DE) and the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague (NL), amongst others.
Boysen is a much sought-after lecturer and teacher. He has led projects and master classes for singers and instrumentalists on rhetoric, basso continuo, musical temperatures, historical singing, performance practice and composition at the conservatories in The Hague, Palma de Mallorca, Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod amongst others. Boysen teaches at the Utrecht Conservatory. His schedule for the season 2018–19 includes masterclasses and lectures on Bach and rhetorics, guest performances of Bach’s St. John Passion at the Nizhny Novgorod Pärt Festival, and performances of his St. Mark Passion-reconstruction at the new Zaryadye concerthall in Moscow.
Teaching languages: DE, EN, NL, (FR).
Hailing from Toledo (Spain), María Sánchez finished her High Degree cello and chamber music studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Jesús Guridi in Vitoria with the teacher Itziar Atutxa. In 1999, María moved to the Netherlands to study Baroque Cello and Classical Cello with Jaap ter Linden and Lucia Swarts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, where she finished her diplomas in 2003 and 2005.
María is member of the ensemble Musica Poetica. She also collaborates with other groups and orchestras with which she has performed in Festivals and venues all along Europe. She has worked with conductors such as Jos van Veldhoven, Marcus Creed, Jacques Ogg, Adrian Rodriguez van der Spoel and Federico María Sardelli, and has played in various recordings for the labels Verso, K617, Challenge Records and Globe Records as well as for different European classical radio channels such as Radio 4 (Netherlands), Radio Catalunya (Spain) and ORF (Austria).
María has taught cello at the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica in Salamanca (Spain). In the last years, she was invited to give baroque cello courses and master classes in the Netherlands, France and at different conservatories in Spain. She also taught baroque cello in the Curso de Música Barroca de Denia (Alicante).
Teaching languages: EN, ES, NL.
Marta Kratochvílová studied flute at the Conservatory in Pardubice and then at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. In 2000 began her studies in France at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, where she specialized in baroque and renaissance flute with Jean-François Alizon and Nancy Hadden, and chamber music with Martin Gester and Patrick Blanc. She has participated in masterclasses and workshops by prominent figures such as Paul McCreesh, Barthold Kuijken, Jan Latham-Koenig and Sir Neville Marriner. In France until 2010, she played baroque and renaissance flute extensively in the ensembles Le Parlement de Musique Strasbourg, Bohemia duo and NotaBene. She also performed renaissance workshops (Ferrara, Munich, Stuttgart, Basel) with a consort of traverso players from Strasbourg.
Today she lives in the Czech Republic and performs regularly throughout Europe. She appears in mostly chamber and solo projects with artists such as Jan Čižmář, Karel Fleischlinger, Joel Frederiksen, Martin Jakubíček, Petr Kolař, Ján Krigovský, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Marc Vonau, Petr Wagner, and with the ensembles {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna and Plaisirs de Musique, of which she is a founding member. She is also artistic leader of the renaissance flute consort Tourdion.
As a teacher with many years of experience she is invited to presentations and masterclasses throughout Europe; she teaches also privately baroque and renaissance traverso playing and interpretation.
Teaching languages: CS, FR, (DE), (EN).
Marc Hervieux studied the recorder in the class of Jean-François Alizon at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg where he obtained a gold medal and a Chamber Music prize at unanimity (1992). This was followed with a specialization course with Patrick Blanc dealing with contemporary recorder repertoire. He obtained the specialization diploma with honors (1997). In addition, Marc started studying song, baroque oboe and traverso and was able to work with Hugo Reyne, Marcos Volontario, Jean-Pierre Pinet and Gilles de Talhouet. He created in 1996 the baroque music ensemble Le Masque with which he performs in France and abroad in a wide variety of programs. In 2005 he created the Academy of Baroque Music in Neuwiller-Lès-Saverne. Since 1991, he teaches recorder at the School of Music of Sélestat and the Conservatoire de Musique de Mulhouse.
Teaching languages: FR, DE, (EN), (ES).
Jan Čižmář is a versatile performer focusing on historical plucked instruments. He performs regularly in Europe, Asia and the USA with ensembles such as Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Capella Cracoviensis, and under conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, Giovanni Antonini, Yannick Nézet–Séguin and Christina Pluhar. He appears also as soloist with of baroque and renaissance repertoire, and is the artistic leader of the ensemble Plaisirs de Musique.
After graduation in guitar and musicology in his native Brno he studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where he began playing the lute in the class of Jakob Lindberg. He continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with the teachers Nigel North, Joachim Held, Mike Fentross and Christina Pluhar.
He was the founder and editor of the Czech guitar magazine Kytara and contributes regularly to other musical periodicals. He is also intensely involved with publishing and research activities in the field of early music.
Jan Čižmář taught lute and related instruments at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in Poland; currently he is teaching at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno and at the Academy of Ancient Music at Masaryk University in Brno. He regularly gives courses and masterclasses in Europe and overseas.
Teaching languages: CS, EN, PL, DE, (FR).
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Full price | V4 price [1] | Full price | V4 price [1] | |
Tuition fee | 4400 Kč (ca. 173 €) |
3080 Kč (ca. 121 €) |
5100 Kč (ca. 200 €) |
3570 Kč (ca. 140 €) |
Recommendations | ||||
Hotel Arkáda (5 nights) | 2975 Kč [2] | |||
Full board | 1000 Kč | |||
Total [3] | 8375 Kč (ca. 329 €) |
7055 Kč (ca. 277 €) |
9075 Kč (ca. 356 €) |
7545 Kč (ca. 296 €) |
Optional blocks | ||||
Masterclass in dance [4] | 850 Kč | 595 Kč | Not applicable | |
In Napoleon’s footsteps | Extra [5] | |||
Masterclass for musicians [4] | Not applicable | 850 Kč | 595 Kč | |
Improvisation | Included |
[1] The “V4 price” is for participants from the Visegrád countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).
[2] The price has not been finalized yet and may depend on the number of participants. The value shown is an upper limit.
[3] If you do not use the offer for accommodation and food, the price will be reduced correspondingly. If you do not use the offer for accommodation and food, the price will be reduced correspondingly.
[4] Per lesson of 30 minutes. The lessons are open to the other participants.
[5] Local transport and entrance fee to museums etc. will be paid cash on the spot.
Price | |
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Tuition fee (per day) [1] | 200 Kč |
[1] Gives access to visit all lessons during the day, and to participate actively in the counterdances in the evening.
Number of active participants per course |
47 | total | 30 | Bučovice |
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35 | Kunín | |||
(18 | Bučovice + Kunín) | |||
Number of active participants by country of residence |
47 | total | 27 | Czechia |
6 | Slovakia | |||
6 | Poland | |||
4 | Austria | |||
2 | Mexico | |||
1 | Germany | |||
1 | Switzerland | |||
Active participants’ age | 70 | Oldest participant | ||
29 | Average age | |||
26 | Median age | |||
19 | Most common age | |||
15 | Youngest participant |
Number of active participants per course |
52 | total | 25 | Bučovice |
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35 | Kunín | |||
(8 | Bučovice + Kunín) | |||
Number of active participants by country of residence |
52 | total | 33 | Czechia |
4 | Germany | |||
3 | France | |||
3 | Slovakia | |||
2 | Poland | |||
2 | Italy | |||
1 | Austria | |||
1 | Switzerland | |||
1 | Sweden | |||
1 | Hungary | |||
1 | Ukraine | |||
Active participants’ age | 56 | Oldest participant | ||
28 | Average age | |||
26 | Median age | |||
22 | Most common age | |||
13 | Youngest participant |
Number of active participants per course |
35 | total | 11 | Bučovice |
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28 | Kunín | |||
(4 | Bučovice + Kunín) | |||
Number of active participants by country of residence |
35 | total | 24 | Czechia |
4 | Poland | |||
3 | Austria | |||
2 | Slovakia | |||
1 | Germany | |||
1 | Hungary | |||
Active participants’ age | 72 | Oldest participant | ||
31 | Average age | |||
29 | Median age | |||
40 | Most common age | |||
14 | Youngest participant |
Number of participants |
50 | total | 28 | one course (≤4 days) |
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22 | both courses (≥5 days) | |||
Number of active participants by country of residence |
50 | total | 28 | Czechia |
6 | Poland | |||
3 | Slovakia | |||
3 | Russia | |||
2 | Austria | |||
2 | Germany | |||
2 | Spain | |||
2 | Chile | |||
2 | United States | |||
1 | Canada | |||
1 | Hungary | |||
Active participants’ age | 57 | Oldest participant | ||
30 | Average age | |||
25 | Median age | |||
22 | Most common age | |||
16 | Youngest participant |
Tuition and events | Lessons minutes |
Partici- pants | ||
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Main subjects | Lutes etc. | 50 | × 40 | 14 |
Harpsichord | 49 | × 40 | 10 | |
Viola da gamba | 34 | × 40 | 7 | |
Harp | 34 | × 40 | 4 | |
Solo singing | 31 | × 40 | 8 | |
Recorder | 27 | × 40 | 7 | |
Traverso | 9 | × 40 | 2 | |
Violin | 4 | × 40 | 1 | |
Special subjects | Recitar cantando | 7 | × 60 | 15 |
Couperin & his time | 9 | × 60 | 14 | |
Forqueray & the art of arranging | 10 | × 40 | 8 | |
Vivaldi concerti | 3 | × 80 | 4 | |
Improvisation | 4 | × 120 | 13 | |
Music and movement | 4 | × 120 | 8 | |
Ensemble@5 | 42 | × 60 | 47 | |
Other events | Lectures | 2 | ~42 | |
Concerts | 4 | ~350 |
Enrolled subject | ||||
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music | dance | together | ||
Number of active participants | 6 | 11 | 17 | |
Number of active participants by country of residence |
Czechia | 5 | 6 | 11 |
France | – | 2 | 2 | |
Switzerland | – | 2 | 2 | |
Estonia | – | 1 | 1 | |
Poland | 1 | – | 1 | |
Active participants’ age | Oldest participant | 42 | 64 | 64 |
Average age | 23 | 40 | 34 | |
Median age | 20 | 42 | 34 | |
Youngest participant | 16 | 20 | 16 |
Number of participants |
31 | total | 13 | short duration (<5 days) |
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18 | long duration (≥5 days) | |||
Number of active participants by country of residence |
31 | total | 16 | Czechia |
4 | Poland | |||
2 | Austria | |||
1 | Slovakia | |||
1 | Hungary | |||
1 | France | |||
1 | Spain | |||
1 | Ukraine | |||
1 | Hong Kong | |||
1 | South Korea | |||
2 | Australia | |||
Active participants’ age | 67 | Oldest participant | ||
34 | Average age | |||
35 | Median age | |||
17 | Youngest participant |
Tuition and events | Lessons minutes |
Partici- pants | ||
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Main subjects | Harpsichord | 61 | × 40 | 12 |
Lutes etc. | 54 | × 40 | 9 | |
Solo singing | 48 | × 40 | 8 | |
Harp | 10 | × 40 | 2 | |
Organ | 5 | × 40 | 2 | |
Traverso | 3 | × 40 | 1 | |
Special subjects | Couperin & his time | 10 | × 60 | 7 |
Forqueray & the art of arranging | 5 | × 40 | 3 | |
Baroque cantatas | 3 | × 60 | 2 | |
El Siglo de Oro | 4 | × 60 | 13 | |
Medieval music | 6 | × 60 | 5 | |
Improvisation | 3 | × 160 | 7 | |
Ensemble@5 | 30 | × 60 | 26 | |
Other events | Lectures | 1 | ~25 | |
Concerts | 3 | ~210 | ||
Some scheduled lessons were canceled due to illness of the participants. |
For additional information about the courses and the associated concerts, see the presentation “The development of our summers courses”.
Bučovice is a town in the South-Eastern part of the Czech Republic (the South Moravian Region).
Austria (state border) | 48 km | to the South | ||
Slovakia (state border) | 30 km | to South-East | ||
Prague (capital of Czech Republic) | 1,300,000 inhabitants | 230 km | to the North-West | |
Brno (head of South Moravian Region) | 380,000 inhabitants | 30 km | to the West | |
Bučovice (town) | 6,500 inhabitants | |||
✈ | Brno Tuřany Airport (IATA: BRQ), Brno (Czechia) Budget airlines: Ryanair (London Stanstead, Milano/Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld). |
23 km | to the West | |
Taxi from the airport, tel. +420 542 321 321 (cca. 900–1100 Kč / 33–40 €) | 29 km | driving distance | ||
Bus/train from the airport (cca. 50–90 Kč / 2–4 €, 5–6 tariff zones, tickets from automat in arrival hall or from newspaper stand in departure hall). | ||||
✈ | Václav Havel Airport (IATA: PRG), Prague (Czechia) Budget airlines: SmartWings, Wizz Air, Ryanair, EasyJet, … |
225 km | to the North-West | |
To get from Prague Airport to Bučovice, take:
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✈ | Wien Schwechat Airport (IATA: VIE), Vienna (Austria) Budget airlines: Niki, EasyJet, Eurowings (many destinations), Germanwings, airBaltic, Norwegian Air, Pegasus, Vueling, … |
120 km | to the South | |
To get from Schwechat Airport to Bučovice, take:
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✈ | Milan Rastislav Štefánik Airport (IATA: BTS), Bratislava (Slovakia) Budget airlines: Ryanair, SmartWings (many destinations), Wizz Air (Skopje). |
110 km | to the South | |
To get from Bratislava Airport to Bučovice, it is usually fastest to take:
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Other busses/trains from the airport (cca. 250–500 Kč / 9–18 €, usually 3–3½ hours) | ||||
Bučovice train station (line 340 Brno – Uherské Hradiště – Bylnice) | 600 m | to the South | ||
Bučovice bus station | 250 m | to the South | ||
Note, some buses stop in front of the train station but not at the bus station. |
Map of Bučovice can be found here (House no. 1 = château, náměstí Svobody 32 = Hotel Arkáda.)
The event is organised by:
Hudební lahůdky, z. s. Kociánka 69/25b CZ-612 00 Brno-Sadová IČO: 22719458 Chairman: Jan Čižmář |
E-mail: kontakt@hudebnilahudky.cz Tel.: +420 606 222 416 Web: www.hudebnilahudky.cz ![]() |
The Summer course on baroque music and dance – Le Roi danse is accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education (MŠMT) within the system for Further Education of Pedagogs (DVPP) under the reference 8810/2019–1.
The Summer course on baroque music and dance – Le Roi danse enjoys the auspices of the Governor of the South Moravian Region JUDr. Bohumil Šimek. It takes place with financial support from the South Moravian Region and the State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic.
For goodwill and pleasant cooperation we thank the municipality Bučovice, Bučovice château (wardeness Ms. Jana Burianková, the National Heritage Institute) and hotel Arkáda.