Our project called „HONEY AND BLOOD presents our original arrangements of the most beautiful tunes from the Balkan Peninsula, as well as some of our original pieces inspired by the idiom of the culture of that region.
What we love most about this music is the abundance of unusual exotic melodies, as well as the tremendous contrasts of style and character.You can be swept by a wild exuberant dance and next minute indulged by the sweetest of melodies.
There is a variety of etymological explanations of the origine of the word Balkan but the one we like best comes from the Turkish- Bal = honey and kan = blood. We believe it goes so well with the spirit of the music we play.
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This energetic duo crosses the boundaries of the musical genres with ease and bring us a stunning union of world music, classical music and jazz.
This energetic duo crosses the boundaries of the musical genres with ease and bring us a stunning union of world music, classical music and jazz. In the unique colours of tone of the violin and accorrdion you will hear the influences of music of the Balkenese, Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Rumanian cultures and many others. Except crossover repertoire the duo also offers the project "From Baroque to Jazz", which presents a wide selection of transcriptions of compositions by greats of the baroque era (Scarlatti, Händel, Bach) to modern authors inspired by jazz or ethnic music (Gershwin, Pärt, Piazzolla, Fischer and others). Both instrumentalists were brought together performing in the group Bardolino music (crossover-folk and ethno music, classical music). Except from Bardolino you may know them from either from Škampa or the Escualo Quintet (tango nuevo) and numerious collabrations with other musicians such as: Iva Bittová, Kathryn Stott or Jethro Tull.
Jakub Jedlinský Jakub Jedlinský is a successful accordion and bandoneon player. He studied at the Conservatory of Pardubice and graduated from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and attended a Master Class at The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Esbjerg, Denmark, with Ass. Professor Jytte von Rüden. He has won several prizes at Czech and international competitions. Jakub attended
international courses and workshops under the guidance of prominent
personalities proficient in their field (Bogdan Dowlasz, Jytte von Rüden, Nikolay Sevrjukov). He has made several recordings for Czech Radio (Český rozhlas). He plays in Escualo Quintet and Bardolino music, cooperates with significant musical personalities, like Gabriela Vermelho, Pavel Fischer and Iva Bittová, and he regularly performs at music festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Poland, UK etc.). Jakub also cooperates with
orchestras (The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, South Czech Philharmonic, UK) Jakub Jedlinský started teaching accordion at the Conservatory of Pardubice in 2008.
Pavel Fischer was born in Zlín in 1965. He heralds from a musical family background, his father, Eduard Fischer, was a well-known composer and conductor who also founded the ŠKO in Zilina. In the years between 1979-85 he completed his studies of the art of violin playing at the Prague Conservatoire, which he further continued at AMU (1985-89) under the guidance of Professor Nora Grumlíková. As a soloist he has performed with a long list of both Czech and international orchestras.During his time at the Prague Academy of Music he concentrated intensively on the study of chamber music and
in the year 1988, together with the pianist Ivo Jančik, he became the outright winner of the international chamber music competition in Trapani, Italy.Also during his time at university he became, in 1989, one of the co-founders and the leader of the Škampa Quartet, a group with which he regularly gave concerts in the most famous of the world stages, including Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York and the Santory Hall in Tokyo ( the Škampa Quartet became the first in the history of the Wigmore Hall to be their official resident ensemble between the years of 1994-1998 ). Pavel Fischer has worked with such excellent musicians as – Josef Suk, Jiři Bárta, D. Pecková, Melvyn Tan, Kathryn Stott, Wolfgang Holzmair, Ronald van Spaendonck, Nikolaj Demiděnko, Janine Jansen etc….With the company Supraphon he and the Škampa Quartet have released a whole series of CDs, the recordings of the quartets by Leoš Janáček and Bedřich Smetana were awarded the anniversary prize in magazine “Harmony” (2001,2002). In the last while Pavel has become even more dedicated to his teaching activities - giving masterclasses both at the Royal college and the Royal Academy in London, the Concertebouw and the Quartet Academy in Amsterdam, at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and, in the year 2008, he became a violin tutor at the RNCM in Manchester and as of this year also at the Birmingham Conservatoire.His unusual interest in music of other genres produced, for example, a long-term cooperation with Iva Bittová spanning many years, the founding of the cross-over ensemble “Camael” and also the trio “Bardolino.” In December of 2009 he participated as a guest in the project of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. We were first introduced to his work as a composer with his three string quartets,commissioned at the request of the British “Lake District Festival”. The premier of the first of these quartets, “Morava”, was heard in April 2008 at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Czech premier in the autumn of 2008, in the chamber series of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The remaining two quartets had the premiers at the “Lake District Festival” in Great Britain.In May 2016 the premiere of his first Violin Concerto was held in České Budějovice ,in January 2018 his “Temperaments”for Voice,Violin,Cello,Accordion and Strings at Dvorak Hall-Prague and February 2018 (performed by The Pavel Haas String Quartet) his “Tales from Moravia” at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg-Germany.
