Percussion Ensemble JAMU (Martin Švec, Kristýna Švihálková, Jan Nepodal, Radim Večeřa, Adam Druga, Ján Bodor, Anežka Nováková, Jakub Kub, David Paša, Adéla Spurná)
Artistic director: prof. Martin Opršál
Dominika Kvardová - harp
Program: Dmitry Shostakovich: Interlude from the opera Nos Leoš Janáček: In the Mists (selection, arr. Martin Opršál) Anna Ignatowicz Glińska: Arpimba Vít Zouhar: Rustling (world premiere - written for the JAMU Percussion Ensemble) Sofia Gubajdulina: Im Anfang war der Rhythmus takes place as a harbinger of the Janáček Brno Festival 2022. The concert program responds in a broader context to this year's dramaturgical line of the Janáček Brno Festival. Even during Janáček's lifetime, the first attempts at the independent use of percussion instruments appeared. The pioneers in this direction, several years before Edgard Varès and his Ionization, were Russian composers. In his First Symphony (1927), Alexander Cherepnin devotes a whole movement to drums only. Likewise, Dmitry Shostakovich uses only 9 untuned percussion instruments in the interlude from the first act of the opera Nos (completed in 1928). (It should be added, however, that all were overtaken by Erwin Schulhoff, who already in 1921 reserved a solo part in the new style in Svit.) Even in later times, when the percussion instruments became completely independent, the Russian (or Soviet) environment played an important role. In 1976, Mark Pekarsky founded his legendary drum ensemble in Moscow, with which a plethora of authors are associated. Last year's jubilant Sofia Gubajdulina (* 1931) also wrote several songs for him. Percussion instruments have had a separate place in Polish music since the turn of the fifties and sixties thanks to Bogusław Schaeffer (Construction, Equivalence sonore, Music for MI). The composer Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska (* 1968) is a prominent figure in the current repertoire, especially in marimba compositions. In addition to solo use, it also incorporates it into unusual instrumental combinations, such as with an organ or harp. The composition of Vít Zouhar (* 1966) written for Percussion will have its world premiere at the concert
