Cantarina Clarinete

Cantarina Clarinete

Clarinet quartet was founded in October 2011 at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague by four students who wanted put "something interesting" together.
They used the fact that all of them have talent with playing clarient including some who also had a talent for singing and the idea was born! A Playing and singing quartet, this was the reason behind the name of the quartet CANTARINA CLARINETE which means singing clarinets. Vocals and the tones of clarinets are accurately illustrate the name because of the well known similarity for sound of clarinet to the human voice.   
The clarinet sound can express almost all mood, e.g. cheerful, sad, cynical, sarcastic, playful, funny, romantic, dreamy. No other instruments have such a wide range of colors and moods as the clarinet does. This is the reason why you can hear compositions which are made for piano, orchestra, swing band, etc. at the quartet's concerts. The quartet is composed of Hana Tauchmanova, Jana Lahodna, Jana Cernohouzova, Vera Kestrankova. They play 3 Bb clarinets and a bass clarinet.  
Their repertoire consists of classical arrangements of the most famous world and Czech compositions of baroque, classic, romantic, pop and jazz genres. The ensamble also has their own arrangements which are prepared for them by Vera Kestrankova. They have had a lot of successful performances in Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts field. They also performed in Muzejní noc 2012, in isaMusikfestival in Austria and they are artistically participating on handover of professors titles by czech president(2012, 2013).  
CANTARINA CLARINETE is available for multiple occasions: weddings, openings, concerts and other ceremonies.

She studied singing at the Conservatory in Bratislava in class Ivica Neshybová, where she graduated in 2006 and in 2008 completed the operetta superstructure. She only started playing the clarinet in 2006! She studied at the Prague Conservatory in the class Ludmila Peterková and Bratislava in the class of Matej Kozub, where she graduated in 2010. SHe performed in oncerts in the Czech Republic, the Slovakia, and in Germany. She is actively working with children and young people, working with choirs and continues her solo singing. She teaches in Prague at ZUS Biskupska. She is the founder of the quartet. She assumed the role of organizer, tester and manager of sheet music archiving.

A laureate of the Prague Spring 2008, she comes from Prague. She graduated from the Jan Neruda High School (Krejci), the Prague Conservatory (L. Peterková, M. Polak) and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (J. Hlavac, V. Mares). She currently is continuing her doctoral studies. She has a lot of experience and success (internship at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid, studying in Boston, prizes from international competitions in Brescia, Italy, the Czech Republic Conservatory of competition, prize of Leoš Janáček). As a soloist, she has performed with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Hradec Králové, South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the North Czech Philharmonic of Teplice. She has often recorded for Czech Radio. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hradec Králové and between the years 2009-2011, she was an intern for Prague Philharmonia. More information can be found at www.janalahodna.cz

She graduated from the conservatory In Brno in the class Lubomíra Barton, however, she comes from Olomouc. She has participated successfully in several competitions (Concertino Praga, 1st prize in the competition of conservatories, Yamaha competition for a scholarship, grant from the Czech Music Fund). She has held solo appearances with the orchestra of the Brno Conservatory, and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra of Olomouc and Brno. She plays intensely contemporary Czech music and is an occasional guest in the Berg Orchestra. She attended courses in both the Czech Republic and abroad (eg Zirovnice, Internationale Sommer Akademie Prague (Vienna) Budapest, Santander, Spain).

She attended the Conservatory in Česky Budejovice in the classroom of Jana Dafčík, however, she comes from Chodovar, a Czech town in the west. Twice she has performed with the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, she has also appeared regularly in the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Marienbad, Franzensbad Orchestra, the Pilsen Philharmonic, and occasionally in the Berg Orchestra. She has taught courses on clarinet cycle "best" in Klatovy (2010, 2012). In the quartet, she plays mainly on the bass clarinet. She plays intensely contemporary music for clarinet and bass clarinet. Most of her energy is put into a wide range of music and non-music activities, which includes the management of a brass band Chodovarky, educational activities and arranging for brass band and the quartet and finally guiding a brewery. She is perfectly versed in the production of beer.