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Irvin Venyš
Irvin Venyš (born 1981) is a Czech clarinetist. He completed his studies at the Brno Conservatory in 2000 under the tutelage of Břetislav Winkler. Venyš continued his education at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, earning his Master's degree in 2007 while studying with professors Jiří Hlaváč and Vlastimil Mareš. In 2005, he received a prestigious one-year scholarship to study at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked with professor Michel Arrignon. Throughout his career, Venyš has competed in numerous national and international competitions, garnering several awards. Notable achievements include second place at the 2004 International Clarinet Competition in Madeira (with no first prize awarded), second place at the Jean Francaix International Clarinet Competition in Paris, and third place at the Markneukirchen International Clarinet Competition. He also claimed first place at the Yamaha Competition in Prague and advanced to the semifinals at the Carl Nielsen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyjov
Kyjov (; or ''Geyen'') is a town in Hodonín District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 11,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Kyjov consists of four municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Kyjov (7,904) *Bohuslavice (645) *Boršov (716) *Nětčice (1,737) Geography Kyjov is located about north of Hodonín. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Kyjov Hills, only a small northern part lies in the Chřiby highlands. The highest point is the hill Lenivá hora at above sea level. The town is situated in the valley of the Kyjovka River. History The first written mention of Kyjov is from 1126. Until 1539, it was a property of the Hradisko Monastery. In the 12th century, a Romanesque church and new market place were established here. In 1201, Kyjov is first referred to as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz following his death on December 24. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphony, symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber music, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and briefly studied under Czech composer and violinist Josef Suk (composer), Josef Suk. After leaving Czechoslovakia in 1923 for Paris, Martinů deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained. During the 1920s he experimented with modern French stylistic developments, exemplified by his orchestral works ''Half-time'' and ''La Bagarre''. He also adopted jazz idioms, for instance in his ''La revue de cuisine, Kitchen Revue'' (''Kuchyňská revue''). In the early 1930s he found his main fount for compositional style: Neoclassicism (music), neoclassicism, creating textures far denser than those found in composers treating Stravinsky as a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
(; "Central German Broadcasting"), shortened to MDR (; stylized as mdr), is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Established in January 1991, its headquarters are in Leipzig, with regional studios in Dresden, Erfurt and Magdeburg. MDR is a member of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany. MDR broadcasts its own television channel to the three states it serves and also contributes programming to the first German TV channel (), and broadcasts a number of radio channels. History Origins The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) was founded on 22 January 1924 in Leipzig. It aired its first program on 1 March 1924 at 14:30 CET. During the '' Gleichschaltung'' in the Nazi era, the MIRAG was transferred to the "Reichssender Leipzig" in 1934. After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany temporarily licensed "Radio Leipzig" in 1945, which only existed for a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Radio
Czech Radio (, ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest national radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second-oldest in Europe after the BBC. Czech Radio was established in 1992 by the Czech Radio Act, which sets out the framework for its operation and finance. It acts as the successor to the previous state-owned Czechoslovak Radio which ceased to exist by 1992. The service broadcasts throughout the Czech Republic nationally and locally. Its four national services are Radiožurnál, Dvojka, Vltava and Plus. Czech Radio operates twelve nationwide stations and another fourteen regional stations. All ČRo stations broadcast via internet stream, digital via DAB+ and DVB, and part analog via terrestrial transmitters. It is based in Prague in a building in Vinohradská třída. History Czechoslovak era ', then ', was established on 18 May 1923, making its first broadcast from a scout tent in the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Ardašev
Igor Ardašev (born in Brno, 1967) is a Czech pianist. He studied at the Brno Conservatory as a pupil of Inessa Janíčková, later he pursued his studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He was awarded the 1987 International Tchaikovsky Competition's 5th prize and the 1988 Prague Spring Competition's 3rd prize. He was subsequently prized at the 1990 Maria Callas, 1991 Queen Elisabeth (6th) and 1995 Long-Thibaud (4th) competitions. Ardašev is internationally active as a concert pianist since 1990. He performed on concert tours and recitals in various countries in Europe, America and Japan. He cooperates with the Czech recording label Supraphon, for which he records mainly the arrangements of Czech orchestral repertoire for piano duet, together with his wife Renata Ardaševová. Ardašev also collaborated with notable Czech-American pianist Rudolf Firkušný Rudolf Firkušný (; 11 February 191219 July 1994) was a Moravians, Moravian-born, Moravian-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márta Gulyás
Márta Gulyás (born 1953 in Gyula, Hungary) is a classical pianist and a professor of piano and chamber music. Biography Márta Gulyás studied piano at the Liszt Ferenc University for Music in Budapest with Erzsébet Tusa and István Lantos. In 1976, she received the artistic and pedagogic diplomas there. She then completed a post-graduate program at the Tschaikowski Conservatory in Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ... with professor Dmitri Bashkirow. In 2001, she habilitated at the Liszt Ferenc University and was awarded the title of . Since then, she teaches piano and chamber music at the Liszt Ferenc University, first as assistant professor, later as associated professor, then as honorary professor. Since 1991, she is also visiting professor at the "Escuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Teml
Jiří Teml (born 24 June 1935) is a Czech composer and radio producer. Born in Vimperk, Teml studied music theory and composition with Bohumil Dušek and Jiří Jaroch during the 1960s and early 1970s while working as an economist. His first major success as a composer came with his ''Fantasia appassionata'' for organ which took third prize at the 1972 Prague Spring Festival. In 1976, he became the head of music and a radio producer at Plzeň Radio. He left in 1980 to join the staff of Czech Radio 3 in Prague, where he worked as a producer of programs of classical music for over 20 years. A prolific composer, Teml's output includes several symphonies, concertos, song cycles, choral works, children's operas, chamber music, art songs, and works for solo organ and piano. His writing displays an influence of Czech folk music and for many years, he has collaborated with the Plzeň Radio folk ensemble. Selected works ;Orchestral * ''Suita giocosa'' for chamber orchestra (1973) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Csaba
Péter Csaba (born 7 November 1952 in Cluj Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...) is a Romanian violinist and conductor of Hungarian ethnic origin. Career Csaba was the artistic director and permanent conductor of the Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitae between 1993 and 2000. He is the artistic director of the chamber orchestra Virtuosi di Kuhmo in Finland, and since 1996, the musical director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Besançon. Since 1996 he has led the Orchestra Class of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Péter Csaba is artistic director of the Festival Lappland Festspiel in Arjeplog in Sweden. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Csaba, Peter 1952 births Living people Romanian musicians of Hungarian descent Hungarian male conductors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakhar Bron
Zakhar Bron ( ; born 17 December 1947) is a Russian violinist and renowned pedagogue He has been living in Western Europe since 1989. Background Bron was born in Oral, Kazakhstan to a Jewish family. His parents fled to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to escape the Nazis. His father was a Polish pianist and his mother was a Romanian engineering student. His first music teacher in his home town recognised his talent and advised him to attend, at the time one of the best violin schools in the USSR, the Stojlarski School for Music in Ukrainian Odessa. Bron lived in this time with a host family, and the pedagogue Arthus Sisserman taught him the basics. He afterwards moved with his father to Moscow where Boris Goldstein put him in his violin class at the Gnessin Conservatoire as well as taught him at home. In 1966 he became a student of Igor Oistrach at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. After Bron finished his master studies in 1971, he started doing his post-masters as well, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
