Jiřà StivÃn
Jiří Stivín ( born November 23, 1942 in Prague) is a Czech musician (flute family, saxophones and clarinets). It acts as an interpreter in the field of early music and the Modern Creative Jazz.
Life and work
Stivín comes from a musical family; one of his uncles was a musician and one of his aunts (the mother of Milan Svoboda ) musicologist. He had learned as a child something violin, but then played no instrument until he was 18 years old. It was only during his studies, he graduated from the Prague Film Academy ( where he was trained as a cameraman) he started to play music. Self-taught, he began playing in the Czech beat group " Sputnick " saxophone; He then received flute lessons with the Baroque music expert Milan Munclinger. During his military service he played with jazz musicians such as bassist Vincenç grief in the quintet of the Army Art Ensemble. He won several prizes as an amateur musician, ewa on the Jazz Festival of San Sebastian.
As a member of Martin Kratochvil formation "Jazz Q" and from 1967 to 1969 the " SHQ Combo" by Karel Velebný he played early in peak formations of the Czech jazz. In the Prague ensemble " Quax " he turned to the avant-garde music. 1968 visited Stivin Thanks John Worth's class at the Royal Academy of Music and played in London in the Scratch Orchestra of Cornelius Cardew. After his return to Prague he worked in a variety of musical styles from baroque to contemporary music and jazz, what could be described as global music in Czech.
Stivín continued to play with "Jazz Q" and kicked repeatedly as a soloist with the Big Band of the Czechoslovak Radio, headed by Václav Zahradník on; also he was repeatedly heard the led by Milan Svoboda Big Band. From the collaboration with "Jazz Q" created their own groups with the name Stivín & Co Jazz System. In the 1970s and 1980s he also gave numerous solo concerts ( with Tonbandzuspielungen ). Stivín, which has become known as a soloist of flute concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann was involved in its productions with leading Czechoslovak chamber orchestras.
He is known not only as a flute player, but also as a collector and creative flute flute maker who, like plastic or metal tubes designed flutes also from aberrant raw materials, which he presents in concert. He also acts as an interpreter of Renaissance and Baroque music recorders. From Stivín LP and CD recordings come with partners such as Rudolf Dašek, Zbigniew Seifert, Barre Phillips, Pierre Favre and his own combo. The partnership with Dašek took first from 1972 to 1975, was renewed in the 1980s and continues to the present day on. Dašek and Stivin the current ( 2007) a trio with drummer Günter Baby Sommer and regularly give concerts. He continued to play with Joe Sachse, Károly Binder, Theo Jörgensmann, Milan Svoboda, Gabriel Jonás, percussionist Alan Vitouš or Tony Scott. He also appears regularly in projects of Ali Haurand, for example in the European Jazz Ensemble, on.
Stivín contributes his performances almost always called a cloth cap to hide his bald head and as his trademark, on the other hand, he combines the flute with histrionic acting that are sometimes clownish, sometimes tinged romantic.
Of his children are now working three also a musician ( drummer / jazz flutist / Classical, bassist / jazz), another daughter, Zuzana Stivínová, is recognized actress.