The Cotatcha Orchestra will present the concert Carp on a Rope (Kapr na Provázku) vol. III. The Brno big band continues its free concert series with a Christmas theme at the Husa na provázku Theater this year. This time the Cotatcha Orchestra will be joined by a great talent of the Bulgarian jazz scene, singer Veleka Tsankova. Along with an eclectic mix of American Christmas songs and Czech Baroque carols, this time she will also perform Bulgarian carols.
“Every year we have a new guest and therefore new carols from the country from which the guest comes. I enjoy discovering Christmas music from different parts of Europe and dressing it up in a new coat in our big band arrangements. This also applies to Czech Christmas songs, many of which were written during the Baroque era. It’s fun and challenging at the same time – arranging these tunes for big band and watching the character of the piece change. I would be quite interested to know what the authors Michna z Otradovic or Václav K. H. Rovenský would think of these arrangements.”, says bandleader Jiří Kotača. The Christmas concert is announced for 11 December 2022 at 19:00 at the Husa na provázku Theater.
This year’s guest of the program will be one of the most prominent singers of the Bulgarian jazz scene Veleka Tsankova – a graduate of music universities in Maastricht, Trieste in Italy and Sofia in Bulgaria. Despite her young age, she has collaborated with leading Bulgarian artists such as Mihail Yossifov, and her voice has captivated the prestigious JM Jazz World Orchestra, with whom she toured Croatia this year.
The sixteen-year-old big band Cotatcha Orchestra was founded eight years ago by trumpeter Jiří Kotača with a vision to play original and original big band music. The band has done many projects with domestic and foreign artists such as Lenka Dusilová, Ilja Reijngoud, Mar Vilaseca, and Daniel Caccia. One of the latest projects, which was created directly in the core of the big band – Bigband Electronica – the band decided to record on their debut album, which was released by the American label Parma Recordings. It is a unique fusion of original compositions combined with electronic music. The album received a nomination for the Anděl Award and won the Czech Jazz Harvest ČRo Jazz poll for 2020. Apart from original music, the big band does several other original projects a year, whether they be collaborations with foreign artists or concerts dedicated to exceptional personalities of jazz music.
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