Piccolo

František Kantor

  • played in the opera orchestra of the National Theatre in Brno (piccolo player, 1st flutist), at present he is a solopiccolist of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
  • associate professor at the Faculty of Music, JAMU in Brno
  • focuses intensively on chamber music – he is a member of the Foerster Wind Quintet, the baroque ensemble Camerata brunae and performs with the classical guitar player Vladislav Bláha and with the orchestra Czech Virtuosi. His is active also in other music genres – jazz, folk, pop and avant-garde music
  • has been recording for the Czech radio and television

Tuition description

In his lessons, he will concentrate not only on methodology (tone making, breathing, dynamics versus intonation, finger technique), but also on issues of understanding of a music work structure. Piccolo lessons with emphasis on solo and orchestral repertoire are a part of his master class. He gives a lecture on baroque music interpretation with focus on free variations.