September 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, NYC

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Jiří Stivín is an internationally acclaimed Czech musician. After graduating from the cinematography department of the Prague Film Academy (FAMU), he devoted himself exclusively to music. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music. Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque periods. He has also been intensely involved in jazz, composition, and in the improvisational New Music, using saxophone, clarinet, flute and several kinds of folk pipes. As a soloist, he works with renowned musical ensembles and institutions from all around the World. He fronts his own Collegium Quodlibet and leads the jazz quartet Jiří Stivín & Co. For the last ten years, as a part of the Prague Symphony Orchestra's concert subscription series, he has been giving a series of performances called 'All Manner of Flutes'. Recently Jiří Stivín founded his own studio of music improvisation called CAP-ART.

More info at www.stivin.cz  
Organized by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in cooperation with Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association.