Jan-Matěj Rak & Štěpán Rak

Jan-Matěj Rak and Štěpán Rak will perform in the church of st. Lawrence 20 September from 19:00 as part of the Guitar Festival September . The title was awarded by President Václav Havel. In 2001, the world's first guitarist in the world was invited to a solo performance at the famous Moscow Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky. The concert response, attended by the top of Russian musical life, was quite extraordinary and resulted in another invitation. In the same year, he and Alfred Strejček in Mexico performed with a concert project to honor J. A. Comenius vivat Comenius . It was the fourth tour of these artists on the American continent. To the seventy -seven countries he had visited with his guitar until then, Japan was added this year. In 2003, a common book by Jaroslava Urbanová and Štěpán Rak Guitar, my love . It is devoted to a large personality, the founder of the Czech guitar school, Professor Štěpán Urban. At the Beijing Theater, he dazzled his tea with his concert . In March 2004, he is a guest of the International Guitar Festival The World Masters of Guitar , which took place in California, USA, where Rakov's feature suite for solo guitar twenty thousand miles below the sea was met with great response. During 2005, he and his guitar visited many countries and many places of our republic as part of his jubilee celebrations. This guitar has quite exceptional resonant properties that Štěpán Rak uses in his project of guitarotherapy. An important moment was the performance of 4. 11. 2007 in Florence in the Uffizi Gallery, where together with Alfred Strejček carried out Comenius general meeting before the painting of Comenius since Rembrandt himself. In December, the selection of the work of Comenius a general meeting on the remedy of human things , which both artists christened. Štěpán Rak is a person who will conquer his listeners with the intensity of experience, an interpretation championship and the absolute merger of the artist and composer in one person, with the soul of music. After his father, composer and guitar virtuoso Štěpán Rak inherited musical talents and also set out on the musician. Although he started studying classic guitars, he finally chose a way in a different, peculiar direction. Later he began to assert himself as a songwriter and, thanks to his colorful and harmoniously rich game, became a sought -after accompanying and instrumentalist. In distinctive modifications and interpretation of the Jewish songs of Central and Eastern Europe, he continued after the collapse of the group in the duo Marion with actress and singer Monika Žáková, with whom they achieved many successes, again on foreign stages (opening concert of the International Jewish Culture Festival in Dresden, etc.). In addition, Jan-Matěj Cancer also worked in the World-Music group Natalika in Brno cellist Natalie Welshmídová. As an author of music and instrumentalist - in addition to the guitar, he also plays an accordion and balalajka - has participated in a number of radio and television programs and productions (eg the twelve -part program of the Czech Republic České Budějovice with guitar around the world . He also performs or cooperates with many important artists and institutions (Alfred Strejček, Jitka Molavcová, Lyra Pragensis, International School of Music and Fine Arts, etc.). Opportunities (awarding the Awards of the Ministry of Culture, Fair Play Awards, etc.).