Lenka Filipová - Brno Strings and guests

Lenka Filipova /guitars, vocals/

Jára Bárta /keyboard, piano/

Sean Barry /accordion, Celtic harp, vocals/

Robert Fischmann /flute, percussions, vocals/

Brno Strings – artistic director: Miloš Vávra, solo violin: Jiří Klecker

Singer and guitarist Lenka Filipová studied at the Prague Conservatory and later she studied classical guitar at the International Music Academy in Paris. Up till now she has released more than 20 albums of different styles and genres. Most of them have been certified as gold or platinum. She is also an author of music and many of her compositions have become big and long-lasting hits. She has given concerts in most European countries, Japan, USA, Canada and Australia, has won a Grand Prix at the guitar festival Netherlands Antilles and the Czech Grammy Award. She went on a concert tour with Francis Cabrel and was a guest at the concert of Céline Dion during her tour in the Czech Republic. The concert of Lenka Filipová in Český Krumlov will be dedicated to a whole array of adaptations of famous compositions for classical guitar; the audience will also listen to adaptations of folk songs and chansons and songs from the new album OPPIDUM. In the program Lenka Filipová will perform with her guests and the string octet Brno Strings. She will sing in four languages, in the old Gaelic language, Irish as well as Scottish, and also in Breton and English.

The ensemble Brno Strings originated thanks to the unison of outstanding musicians focused on the interpretation of chamber music. The members of the ensemble are first players of the Janáček Opera and Brno Philharmonic orchestras based in Brno and long-term members of chamber ensembles such as, for example, Czech Virtuosi, Czech Chamber Soloists, the quartet Incognito and Slavonic Quartet.