Jiří Stivín

Jiří Stivín has been engaged in the interpretation of pre -classical music on the recorder since 1975. He first studied camera at FAMU in Prague, but after graduation he began to focus exclusively on music. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the song at the Academy of Sciences of Prague. He learned the game at the flute at Milan Munclinger (ARS Rediviva) and Jiří Válek (Czech Philharmonic). Stivín interprets the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque. He recorded most of the concerts for the recorder (4 CD Vivaldi, Telemann). It controls all kinds of transverse and recorders. In addition to pre -classical music, she is intensively devoted to jazz, folding and improvised new music, and in addition to saxophones, clarinet and transverse flutes, he also uses recorder flutes and various folk whistles. As a soloist, he cooperates with renowned musical ensembles, manages his own collegium quodlibet and Jiří Stivín And what jazz quartet, performs in solo recitals with harpsichord, organ, guitar, or plays all alone and with a tape.