Clarami Quartet

This female clarinet quartet will bring fresh classical melodies and more serious jazz tones and arrangements of popular compositions to the gardens.

The festival's Monastery Garden will resound with the music of four excellent clarinetists, the Clarami Quartet, consisting of Kateřina Holeček Škardová, Tereza Kosková, Veronika Coganová, and Zlata Vohryzková. The female quartet invites the audience on a colorful musical journey across centuries and genres. From the festive Baroque of George Frideric Handel and the lyrical Sonata in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni to modern compositions by Peter Harvey and Karol Beffa. Their concert will offer a mixture of elegance, ingenuity, and humor. The finale will feature the spirited Three Tangos by Astor Piazzolla, the jazz charm of Gershwin, and the lively rhythm of the samba Tico Tico. The Clarami Quartet proves that the clarinet can be both gentle and fierce, classical and modern.

Artists

Kateřina Holeček Škardová - clarinet

Tereza Kosková - clarinet

Veronika Coganová - clarinet

Zlata Vohryzková - bass clarinet

Program

Georg Friedrich Händel: Oratorium Solomon, HWV 67 (The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba)

Tomaso Albinoni: Sonata G minor, Op. 2 No. 6

Paul Harvey: Quartet for Three Clarinets and Bass Clarinet

Karol Beffa: Feux d’Artifice

Astor Piazzolla: 3 Tangos

Herbert Spencer: Nonette Rag

Zequinha de Abreu: Tico Tico

George Gershwin - Liza

Clarami Quartet

The Clarami Quartet was founded in 2023 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and its members are four graduates of the clarinet class of Prof. Vlastimil Mareš and Doc. MgA. Irvin Venyš, Ph.D. The ensemble focuses on music originally written for clarinet quartet as well as arrangements of popular compositions for other instrumentations, and also combines musical genres.