Marek Štryncl is a Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

  conductor, violoncellist

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

, choirmaster, and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, born 1974 in Jablonec nad Nisou

Jablonec nad Nisou

Jablonec nad Nisou is a town in northern Bohemia, the second largest town of the Liberec Region. It is known as a mountain resort in the Jizera Mountains, an education centre, and a centre of world-production of glass and jewellery...

. He is founder and leader of Baroque music

Baroque music

Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...

 ensemble Musica Florea

Musica Florea

Musica Florea is Czech Baroque music ensemble, founded 1992 by conductor and cellist Marek Štryncl, located in Prague.- Profile :The group of young professionals with a common interest in the study and authentic performance of Baroque music engaged primarily in performances and recordings of...

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Biography

Marek Štryncl raised in small village Skuhrov

Skuhrov (Jablonec nad Nisou District)

Skuhrov is a village and municipality in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. -References:...

. He studied violoncello at the Teplice

Teplice

Teplice , Teplice-Šanov until 1948 is a town in the Czech Republic, the capital of the Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is the state's second largest spa town ....

 conservatory. He graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...

 (AMU) in 2002 in the field of conducting, and has also studied cello at the Dresdner Akademie für alte Musik. He also completed a course of studies in Baroque cello performance in France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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He was still a student when he established the ensemble Musica Florea in 1992. In 1994 he conducted a recording of Jan Dismas Zelenka

Jan Dismas Zelenka

Jan Dismas Zelenka , baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka and previously also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was the most important Czech Baroque composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint.- Life :Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a small...

’s "Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis

Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis

Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis in A-minor, ZWV 17, is the vocal-instrumental sacred work, written by Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka...

" for Studio Matouš and conducted this work at Prague’s Spring Music Festival a year later. Also in 1995, he conducted another celebrated work by Zelenka, Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis

Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis

Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis conspicua orbi regia Bohemiae Corona: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao , ZWV 175, is an extensive composition, written in 1723 by Czech baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.- History:The...

, at the St. Wenceslas Festival in Prague. Working with Musica Florea he restores to life the works of forgotten composers, especially from the Czech Baroque

Baroque

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 and Classical periods. He is responsible for programming the ensemble’s regular concert series in Prague

Prague

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 and in other regions of Czechia, and has initiated the unique theatre project of transportable Baroque stage called Florea Theatrum. He performs on the cello both as a soloist and in chamber works, and also occasionally composes. He has appeared in prestigious festivals such as the Prague Spring International Music Festival, Rezonanzen in Vienna

Vienna

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, the Festival van Vlaanderen in Brugge

Brügge

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, the Tage alter Musik in Sopron

Sopron

In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants . Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6% Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125 inhabitants...

, in Regensburg

Regensburg

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, Strings of Autumn, and Concentus Moraviae

Concentus Moraviae

Concentus Moraviae is an international music festival held in the towns of the Vysočina and South Moravian region of the Czech Republic. The festival consists of more than thirty concerts with the subtitle of "Bohemian Dreams" in the churches, castles, and castle courtyards of the Czech towns....

. He has made dozens of compact disc recordings, many of which have received top awards: Diapason in 1994, Zlatá Harmonie in 1997, and a Cannes Classical Award in 2003. Nor does he avoid alternative projects - e.g. a recording of symphonic music played on period instruments (works by Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

 (2009) and contemporary compositions with the singer Iva Bittová

Iva Bittová

Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and...

 (Vladimír Godár

Vladimír Godár

Vladimír Godár is a Slovak composer who is active in the fields of contemporary classical music and film music. He is also known for his collaboration with the Czech violinist, singer and composer Iva Bittová. As an academic, he is a writer, editor and translator of books on historical music...

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As a conductor and choirmaster Štryncl has collaborated with orchestras, ensembles, and soloists such as Magdalena Kožená

Magdalena Kožená

Magdalena Kožená is a Czech mezzo-soprano.In 2003, Kožená was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government...

, Phillipe Jaroussky, Boni Pueri, the Prague Chamber Choir

Prague Chamber Choir

The Prague Chamber Choir is a Czech choir founded in 1990 by singers of the Prague Philharmonic Choir. It has given concerts in Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Lebanon and many European countries .- External links :*...

, Les Musiciens du Paradis, and the Prague Philharmonia

Prague Philharmonia

The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1995 by Czech musicians with the German conductor Friedemann Riehle. The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra quickly developed into one of the leading orchestras for CD-recording in Europe. The orchestra plays about 200 recording sessions every year...

. His repertoire includes works from the early Baroque to the Romantic period as well as contemporary compositions. Currently Štryncl is teaching orchestral conducting and Baroque cello at Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...

. In 1994 - 1995 was section principal with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra in Teplice.