modern jazz group
Milan Svoboda - piano
Milan Krajic - tenor and soprano sax
Filip Spaleny - bass guitar
Ivan Audes - drums
MILAN SVOBODA QUARTET, founded in 1979. Modern mainstream combining
jazz
with elements of contemporary classical music, rock
and folkloric elements
and very often grouping individual themes into larger
musical units of a suite character.
Concerts all over Europe, in the U.S.A., Maxico
and in India.
Special guests: Sigi Finkel (A) - ts, Tony Lakatos
(H) - ts.
Possible special programme with classical solo cello
player Jiri Barta (CZ).
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CDs:
Open The Window Wide (1984), Dedication (1990),
The Boston Concert (1993),
Tonight-Tomorrow Morning (1993), Milan Svoboda Q
& Tony Lakatos (1998)
Sign Of Sagittarius (2005), Live At The Castle (2005)
Requirements:
PA system with stage monitors (link to stage plan)
tuned concert piano
Transport:
2 cars or 1 minibus
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Prague big band
Personnel:
Zdenek Sedivy, Ludek Emanovsky, Radek Nemec, Michal
Gera - trumpets,
Premysl Tomsicek, Svatopluk Kosvanec, Jan Vimr
- trombones, Filip Spaleny - tuba,
Martin Plachy, Marcel Barta, Tomas Kremenak,
Milan Krajic, Pavel Pivarci - saxophones
Jiri Simek - guitar, Krystof Marek
- piano, Tomas Liska - bass guitar, Ivan Audes - drums
Milan Svoboda- conductor, leader
A modern Big Band featuring leading Czech jazz soloists.
The Orchestra plays mostly original music composed by Milan Svoboda which
is the key to its unique sound.
The Milan Svoboda Jazz Orchestra performed at many eminent European festivals,
gained numerous awards and recorded thirteen albums.
The ensemble featured a long list of well-known personalities of the world
jazz scene as guest musicians.
So far Milan Svoboda has been leading and conducting the Orchestra for
thirty years.
Whole generations of great Czech jazz musicians took part in the project
during the years.
ALBUMS:
Portrait (1978), Reminiscences (1980, 1995), Poste
Restante (1982), Gemini (1986),
Interjazz 5 (1986), Keep It Up (1989), Chrismas Songs And Carols (1992),
Live at Viersen (1992),
The Boston Concert (1993), Live At The Lucerna
Hall (1995), Family (1999), Contraband Goes To Town (2002)
Requirements:
PA system for big band with stage monitors
(link to stage plan)
tuned concert piano
green room
Transportation:
1 bus or 5 cars
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chamber jazz duo
Michal Gera - trumpet, flugelhorn
Milan Svoboda - piano
Milan Svoboda has been doing duo performances with trumpet player
Michal Gera for more than 15 years.
The duo performs original compositions and improvisation.
As a result of their long association and similar musical roots,
both musicians complement each other very well.
Their joint efforts have been recorded on CD named
“DUO” in 1991.
CD: Duo (1991)
Requirements:
tuned concert piano
sound system with 4 microphones - depending
on the accoustics of the room
Transportation:
1 car
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solo piano recital
In a solo jazz piano recital Milan Svoboda presents mostly his
own compositions and improvisation. His style goes much beyond the jazz
idiom. Svoboda gave solo recitals in the USA, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Poland
and other countries. A recording of his recital from the European Jazz Pianist
Festival in Köln, Germany, was broadcasted in spring 1994 by the WDR German
television company. V 1997 he presented his recital at the International
Jazz Piano Festival at Prague's Rudolfinum Hall. His performance was released
on an album entitled “Solo Piano Recital”. In autumn 2003 Svoboda's solo
concert was featured within the classical series “World's Piano Works” produced
by the FOK agency. A recording of this concert, again at the Rudolfinum Hall,
was released on an album entitled “Merging”. In spring 2005 Milan Svoboda
presented his solo recital to great acclaim at the Eurojazz Festival in
Mexico City.
CDs: Solo Piano Recital (1997), Merging (2004)
Requirements:
tuned concert piano
Transportation:
1 car
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modern jazz combo
Michal Gera - trumpet (Marcel Barta - alto sax)
Milan Krajic - tenor sax (Bedrich Smarda
- tenor sax)
Premysl Tomsicek - trombone (Pavel Pivarci
- baritone sax)
Milan Svoboda - piano
Filip Spaleny - bass guitar
Ivan Audes - drums
The Milan Svoboda Sextet features soloists of the Contraband
Jazz Orchestra.
The group plays Svoboda's compositions as well as his original
arrangements of jazz standards.
The sextet (septet) performs with an international line-up
as well, featuring Tony Lakatos,
Sigi Finkel, Jarek Smietana, Robert Majewski and others.
Requirements:
PA system with stage monitors
tuned concert piano
Transportation:
2 cars or 1 minibus
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MILAN
SVOBODA
ORIGINAL CLASSICAL CONCERT
orchestral concert of Svoboda's contemporary classical music
Programme:
Concerto grosso
for violin, piano and string orchestra
Suite from the ballet Mowgli
for symphonic orchestra
Oldrich Vlcek - violin
Milan Svoboda - piano
Virtuosi di Praga orchestra
and guests
Composer and conductor Milan Svoboda presents his latests compositions
with the well known Virtuosi di Praga chamber orchestra.
The Concerto grosso has been performed in the Rudolfinum
Hall four times so far
and was recorded twice by Czech Television.
The Mowgli ballet was composed for the National Theater
in Prague,
where it was on programme for several seasons.
Orchestral works of Milan Svoboda were released on a CD entitled
"The Rudolfinum Concert".
The compositions may be performed by other orchestras as well.
The concert program of Milan Svoboda together with the Virtuosi
di Praga orchestra
is organised by the agency LUPULUS, Korunní 60, 120 00 Praha
2, tel/fax: 420/222 513 782.
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songs
Jana Paulova - vocal
Milan Svoboda - piano
Gamavilla String Quartet
(members of the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra)
A chamber programme of original songs of actress and
singer Jana Paulova,
accompanied by string quartet and piano.
Arrangements of the tunes for this unusual instrumentation
come from composer,
conductor and jazzman Milan Svoboda.
Part of the programme consists of original intrumental arrangements
of well-known Beatles' tunes.
Requirements:
sound system with stage monitors,
6 microphones
tuned concert piano
Transportation:
2 cars