VÍT NERMUT DUO / CZE

VÍT NERMUT DUO / CZE

The duo will present the audience with music inspired by medieval themes from Czech, Italian and Spanish environments in a sound-varied connection with the world of contemporary free improvisation.

Vít Nermut is a graduate of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory (violin) and musicology at the Faculty of Music, Charles University in Prague. He studied interpretation of music from older stylistic periods at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen in Germany. In addition to classical music, he also devotes himself to improvisation. He has also composed music for theater and film (e.g. Minulost (The Past), directed by Ivo Trajkov, 1998).

He worked in the late 1990s as a jazz player, with among others, the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra of Pavel Klikar, in the previous decade he collaborated with renowned early music ensembles as a violinist throughout Europe (Armonico Tributo Austria, Hofkapelle München, Trondheim Baroque, Instrumenta Musica Dresden, Bach Collegium Japan, etc.). At present, he mainly works in groups that combine elements of old and new music, cooperates, for example, with the ensembles Societas Incognitorum, Musica Florea, and Ondřej Havelka’s Melody Makers, and is engaged in pedagogical activities.

Michal Hrubý plays clarinets, tenor saxophone and folk pipes from Slovakia. He founded and led the groups Unexpected Party and Captain Cayman. He is currently active in several different bands (Romanovská Tichý Hrubý, Květovány koň, Prázdné hory je fullen wind og rain, Thrush and yeast…). He was a guest with the Berg Orchestra. In 2017 and 2018, he was the dramaturg of the Dobršská brána festival and in 2020 of the music festival in Louková. He says of his work: “I like to make sounds.”

MEDIEVAL INSPIRATION PROJECT

The themes of medieval compositions for the vielle and flute sound in their own historicist conception and are then confronted with the language of the contemporary instrumental cast through the dialogue of the violin and the bass clarinet.

Vít Nermut (violin, vielle)

Michal Hrubý (flute, bass clarinet)

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