Emil Viklický

Emil Viklicky Was Born On The 23rd November 1948 In Olomouc Where In 1971 He Graduated From The Palacky University In Mathematics. Whilst A Student He Devoted Much Time To Playing Jazz Piano. In 1974 He Was Awarded The Prize For Best Soloist At The Czechoslovak Amateur Jazz Festival And In That Same Year He Became A Member Of Karel Velebny's SHQ Ensemble. In 1976 He Was A Prizewinner At The Jazz Improvisation Competition In Lyon And His Composition Green Satin Zeleny Saten Earned Him First Prize In The Music Conservatory Competition In Monaco Where In 1985 His Cacharel Won Second Prize In The Same Competition. In 1977 He Was Awarded A Year's Scholarship To Study Composition And Arrangement With Herb Pomeroy At The Jazz School Of The Berklee College Of Music In Boston. He Then Continued His Composition Studies With Jarmo Sermila George Crumb And Vaclav Kucera. Since His Return To Prague He Has Been Directing His Own Ensembles Primarily Quartets And Quintets Composing And Arranging Music And - Since The Death Of Karel Velebny - Working As Director Of The Summer Jazz Workshops In Frydlant. He Has Also Lectured At A Similar Workshop Event In Glamorgan Wales. Between 1991 And 1995 Viklicky Was President Of The Czech Jazz Society And Since 1994 He Has Worked With The Ad Lib Moravia Ensemble Whose Performances Combine Elements Of Moravian Folk Music Modern Jazz And Contemporary Serious Music. In 1996 The Ensemble Undertook A Highly Successful Concert Tour Of Mexico And The United States. Emil Viklicky - Photo Jan Sibrik C 1998 As Pianist Viklicky Often Performs In International Ensembles Alongside Musicians From The USA And Other European Countries - With The Lou Blackburn International Quartet And The Benny Bailey Quintet For Example And With Multi-Instrumentalist Scott Robinson. He Has Made Frequent Appearances In Finland With The Finnczech Quartet And In Particular With Jarmo Sermila And Norway With The Czech-Norwegian Big Band And Harald Gundhus And Has Performed In The USA Japan Mexico Israel Germany Luxembourg The Netherlands At The North Sea Festival And Elsewhere. The Editor Of Rolling Stone Wrote Of Viklicky That "It Was A Delightful Surprise To See Such First-Class Top-Of-The-Line Jazz In Prague. As Composer Viklicky Has Attracted Attention Abroad Primarily For Having Created A Synthesis Of The Expressive Elements Of Modern Jazz With The Melodicism And Tonalities Of Moravian Folk Song That Is Distinctly Individual In Contemporary Jazz. Besides This However He Also Composes 'straight-Ahead' Modern Jazz As Well As Chamber And Orchestral Works That Utilize Certain Elements Of The New Music And At Times His Music Requires A Combination Of Classical And Jazz Performers. He Also Composes Incidental And Film Music And Has Produced Scores For Several Full-Length Feature Films And Television Series. Throughout The 1990s He Has Devoted An Increasing Amount Of Time To The Composition Of Contemporary Classical Music For A Great Variety Of Instrumental Combinations Ranging From Small Chamber Ensembles And Electronic Instruments To Symphony Orchestras And Choruses. Viklicky's Work Has Gained Him Quite A Number Of Prestigious Awards. See Also Www.Viklicky.Com The Times ... Viklicky Himself Is A Wonderfully Lyrical Yet Robust Pianist His Playing Packed With Dynamic And Textural Subtleties...
CHRIS PARKER London December 22 1997 Schwann Inside Jazz&Classical April 2001 "Emil Viklicky 's Introspective Musings Might Remind You Of Keith Jarrett Or Brad Mehldau.. CD Morava Is Promissing Arrival At New Creative Plateau"
/ By Calvin Wilson. Los Angeles Times Sunday March 25 2001 "Emil Viklicky Plays Bill Evans Inspired Piano... 'Myjava' 'Slunecko Sa Nizi' A 'Touha' Are Masterfull Examples Of World-Class Jazz Artistry"
/ By Don Heckman Www.Rootsworld.Com/reviews/mraz.Shtml
"..This Music Is Given A Definite Jazz Spin By Viklicky´s Outstanding Arrangements... / By Joe Grossman Perhaps The Greatest Revealation To Me Was The Piano Work Of Emil Viklicky Whose Command Of The Bop Tradition Pulls The Traditional Selections Into A New World.
2001 - Shaun Dale One Of The Best Contemporary Pianists Emil Viklicky´s Soloing And Comping His Touch Voicings And Intervals Have A Good Deal In Common With Fleet Tasteful Pianists Like Tommy Flanagan Jimmy Rowles And Bill Charlap."
Doug Ramsey JazzTimes December 2004 PRIZES AND AWARDS * 1976 - Prize For Jazz Improvization At Competition In Lyon France * 1976 - First Prize In Jazz Composition Competition In Monaco For Green Satin * 1978 - Supraphon Prize For LP In Olomouc Town V Holomoci Meste * 1985 - Second Prize In Monaco Jazz Composition Competition For Cacharel * 1991 - FITES Film And Television Association Prize For Music For Animated Film * 1994 - Second Prize At Marimolin Contemporary Music Competition In Boston USA For Tristana * 1996 - Special Prize For Electroacoustic Music Prague For Paradise Park Rajska Zahrada * 1996 - Special Czech Music Fund Prize For Use Of Folk Music In Art Music * February 2000 - First Prize In International Composition Competition In Prague - Nova Opera Pro Prahu For Opera Faidra - Phaedra CLASSICAL MUSIC WORKS * 1982 - Partial Symmetry Castecna Symetrie For Flute Oboe Bass Clarinet And Piano * 1988 - Tauromaquia For Oboe Violin And Piano CD Bonton 7100162011 * 1988 - Par Pondus For Viola And Jazz Big Band LP Supraphon 110183 * 1988 - Adaemus For Oboe Solo Czechoslovak Radio Recording * 1989 - Wooden Music Drevena Hudba For Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Piano And Tape * 1990 - Spleen Of Optimism For Computer Piano And Voice * 1990 - Twins Of Bern Dvojnik Z Bernu For Five Cellos Edit Records 4100134131 * 1991 - Keys To The Dawn Kluce Od Svitania For Symphony Orchestra And Jazz Quintet * 1994 - The Adventure Of Ignatz P. Dobrodruzstvi Ignaca P. An Electroacoustic Composition * 1994 - Tristana For Violin And Marimba CD Lotos 1996 LT003362131 * 1995 - Letters To Josip Plecnik Dopisy Plecnikovi For Mezzo-Soprano And Eight Instruments CD Lotos 1996 LT003362131 * 1995 - Three Choruses For Male Voices Tri Muzske Sbory On Texts By Eva Petrova CD Lotos 1996 LT003362131 * 1999 - A Bird Flew Out Vyletel Ftak Rhapsody For Dulcimer Soprano Male Voices Jazz Trio And Symphonic Orchestra * 1999 - Stoji Jano U Potoka For Soprano Male Voices Dulcimer And Symphonic Orchestra On Text By Milan Kundera * 2000 - Faidra Opera For Soloists Symphonic Orchestra Choir Cca 90min. * 2002 - Der Ackermann Und Der Tod Chamber Opera Cca 60 Min. * 2003 - Machuv Denik / Macha What Do You Think You Are Doing/ Opera For National Theater Prague /cca 100 Min./ Premiere May 1st 2003 * 2004 - The Mystery Of Man – Melodrama On The Texts Of Vaclav Havel For 2 Narrators And Orchestra Premiere New York City Oct.28-30 2004 With Wynton Marsalis Bigband Alfre Woodard Mario Van Peebles. REVIEW Conceptually The Most Absorbing Of The Presentations Was "The Mystery Of Man " By Czech Composer Emil Viklicky Which Took Fragments From Havel's Prison Letters And Speeches And Weaved Them Into A Spoken-Word Libretto With Van Peebles And Woodard Trading Verbal Choruses With The Music's Ellingtonian Sweep Of Mood And Drama. All Involved Were Challenged To Make It Through This Complex Course Especially Conductor David Berger "called Back Into Action " As Marsalis Put It Who Quietly Put Forth A Clinic On Deploying Cues. As Windy As Havel's Public Rhetoric Can Sometimes Be The Whole Piece Made A Deep Impression With Both Its Intricacy And Its Insistence.
Gene Seymour Staff Writer Www.Newsday.Com Nov 1st 2004 PRINCIPAL FULL-LENGTH FILM SCORES * For Landscape With Furniture Krajina S Nabytkem Directed By Karel Smyczek And Shown In 26 Countries 1985 * For The Officer Factory Tovarna Na Oficiry Directed By Wolf Vollmar Mondada Productions 1988 * For Journey's End Die Wette Directed By Martin Walz 1991 * For Lacrimosa Ma Je Pomsta Directed By Lordan Zafranovic 1995 Soundtrack Popron 540922 * For Kondom Des Grauens Ascot-Ecco Film 1996 Soundtrack Polygram Hamburg 5358372 * For Liebe Lugen Metropolis Film Berlin 1997 * For Zprava O Putovani Petra A Jakuba Dir. D.Vihanova 2000 Nominated For Czech Lion. MUSIC FOR TELEVISION * For The Series Hamster In A Nightshirt Krecek V Nocni Kosili Directed By Vaclav Vorlicek 1994-95 * For Twelve-Part Series Lucas And Lucy Broucci Directed By Vlasta Pospisilova * For The Series The Blunders Of Boy Blunder Hugo Of The Hills The Hippopotamus And The Abominable Snowman * Apocalypso TV PRO7 Munchen 1999 * And For More Than Twenty Films For Czech Television MUSIC FOR THEATRE * For The Dance Of Death August Strindberg National Theatre/Studio Kolowrat Prague 1994 * For The Labyrinth Of The World 1990 And Ecce Homo 1993 F.X. Salda Theatre Liberec Czech Republic * For A Delicate Balance Edward Albee Vinohrady Theatre Prague 1996 * For The Last Yankee Arthur Miller Produced By Jan Balzar 1996 * For Markyza De Sade J.Mishima Vinohrady Theatre Prague 1998 SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY 1. The Window Okno And The Door Dvere The Emil Viklicky Quartet With Bill Frisell LP Supraphon 1980 And 1985 Reissued On CD Bonton 1997 7105402 2. Confluence Jarmo Sermila And Emil Viklicky LP Jasemusiikki Finland 1983 Jase0004 Reissued On CD 1995 3. Together Spolu Viklicky In A Piano Duet With James Williams LP Supraphon 1981 Reissued On CD 1996 SU50712511 4. Homage To Joan Miro The Emil Viklicky Quartet And The Talich Quartet LP Supraphon 1988 1101801531 Reissued On CD 1989 1107632531 5. Beyond The Mountains Za Horama Za Dolama The Emil Viklicky Trio LP Supraphon 1990 CD Supraphon 1108622531 6. While My Lady Sleeps... The Benny Bailey Quintet CD Gemini Records 1990 GMCD 0069 7. 'Round Midnight The Emil Viklicky Quartet CD Arta 1991 F100202511 8. Last Conection From Niirasaki Emil Viklicky And Alex Svamberk With Lucie Bila CD Monitor/EMI Records 1995 6600912331 9. Fast Falls The Rain Prsi Dest Ad Lib Moravia CD Lotos 1994 LT00142531 10. Food Of Love The Emil Viklicky Quartet CD Melantrich 1995 MCD0142 Lotos 1998 LT00612531 11. Lacrimosa Soundtrack From The Film Ma Je Pomsta CD Popron 1995 540922 12. Homage To Josip Plecnik Pocta Josipu Plecnikovi Real Audio File CD Lotos 1996 LT00362131 13. UV Drive Emil Viklicky With Boris Urbanek CD Arta 1997 F100812 14. Bohemia After Dark Emil Viklicky With S.Houben P.Dvorsky And L.Tropp CD PJ Music 1997 PJ0122 15. Duets Emil Viklicky With A.Wardell G.Hopkins G.Ittzes E.Marienthal And J.Nicholas CD Lotos 1998 LT00552131 16. Neuro Emil Viklicky With Jarmo Sermila Alex Svamberk And Miroslav Posejpal CD Gallup Music 1998 0152 17. Docela Vsedni Obycejny Den Emil Viklicky With F.Uhlir P.Dvorsky L.Tropp R.Pokorny E.Rattay CD Lotos 1998 LT00712531 18. Moravian Love Songs Zuzana Lapcikova With E.Viklicky P.Ruzicka PP Members Vcelaran CD Lotos 1999 LT00722431 19. An American In Prague Benny Golbin With E.Viklicky CD ClearWater 2000 CW001 20. Morava George Mraz Billy Hart Zuzana Lapcikova Emil Viklicky CD Fantasy / Milestone 2001 MCD-9309-2 21. Live In Rudolfinum Solo Piano CD PJ Music 2001 PJ 0172 22. Lullabies Zuzana Lapcikova Emil Viklicky Petr Ruzicka CD Multisonic 2001 3105332 23. Trio '01 Emil Viklicky Laco Tropp Frantisek Uhlir CD Arta 2002 F10111 24. What´s New Emil Viklický Trio Steve Houben CD Cube-Métier 2003 MJCD 2317 25. Summertime Emil Viklický Trio Scott Robinson CD Cube-Metier 2004 MJCD 2422 What´s New Emil Viklický Trio Steve Houben CD Cube-Métier 2003 MJCD 2317 Summertime Emil Viklický Trio Scott Robinson CD Cube-Metier 2004 MJCD 2422 CDs Available At CDmusic.Cz / Siroky Dvur. E.V. Billy Hart Drums Zuzana Lapcikova Voice Dulcimer Todd Barkan Producer Jiri George Mraz Bass In Current Sounds Studio New York City See Also Www.Viklicky.Com read less