Slavonice 2026

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TUTORS

Richard Šeda graduated in trumpet playing at the Conservatory in České Budějovice in the class of Professor Jiří Pelikán. Already during this study, he was interested in the early music. He initially started playing and gained his first concert experience in the Ritornello ensemble under the direction Mr. Michael Pospíšil. In 2005, he started his private cornetto study at several interpretation courses in Prague and France with the French cornetto player Mrs. Judith Pacquier. His work in many foreign ensembles of early music includes Les Traversées Baroques, Concerto Copenhagen, Marini Consort Insbruck, L´Arpa Festante München, Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Clemencic Consort Wien. In the Czech Republic, he cooperates with the ensembles Czech Ensemble Baroque, Cappella Mariana, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Collegium 1704 and others. He is the co-founder and musical dramaturge of the regional festival of Baroque arts. He also devotes himself to musical research activities and the spartation of old manuscripts. His research contribution in the field of music in the Kroměříž archive was also mentioned in Jiří Sehnal's book "Pavel Josef Vejvanovský and the Kroměříž music collection". In 2007 he founded his ensemble, Capella Ornamentata, which is dedicated to the interpretation of music from the 16th and 17th centuries. The ensemble performs on domestic and foreign concert stages and presents itself in radio and television broadcasts.

Matthijs van der Moolen loves playing both early and contemporary chamber music. He graduated cum laude from his studies of baroque trombone with Mr. Charles Toet at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague and specialized in Renaissance music on trombone and slide trumpet even further with Mrs. Catherine Motuz at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Matthijs played with the ensembles Música Temprana, Holland Baroque, Capriccio Stravagante, Bach Collegium Japan, New Collegium, La Fonte Musica, Innsbrucker Hofmusik, Cappella Marciana (San Marco, Venice), Ghislieri Consort, and many others. Together with Mrs. Anne-Linde Visser and Mrs. Elise Dupont, he co-founded the Castello Consort. This ensemble, they specialises in the expressive and virtuosic (chamber) music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They recently performed in the foremost (international) concert series and festivals, including the Internationale Händel-Festspiele in Göttingen (DE), Beverley Early Music Festival (UK), Festival d'Ambronay (FR), Festival Barocco è il mondo (IT), BRQ Festival (fringe) in Vantaa (FI), Kongsberg International Organ Summer (NO), International Organ Festival Haarlem (NL), Gaudeamus (NL), November Music (NL), and the Utrecht Early Music Festival (NL). In 2023, they presented their debut CD with a combination of seventeenth-century chamber music and contemporary music by Martijn Padding. Matthijs regularly teaches courses and workshops, including a bi-annual course on polychoral music for the Huismuziek organization. He is also active as a private teacher in historical trombones. As a researcher, he is currently working on his PhD on the trombone in seventeenth-century France, England, and the Low Countries. In concerts, Matthijs plays on a variety of instruments, ranging from original historical instruments from the 19th century to accurate copies of earlier instruments. His most special instrument is the first exact copy of the only surviving renaissance trombone from Italy: the anonymous instrument that is part of the Accademia Filarmonica collection in Verona. Mr. Aron Vajna built this for him, using all the historical techniques. The instrument was created with the support of Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument.

https://www.matthijsvandermoolen.com/