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The singing part of the music group CAMAEL is made up by
a femail vocal trio named TRINY, which performs and prepares
original Gypsy melodies arranged for three voices. It now
sings Moravian songs as well. As a separate group, TRINY has
performed at international Czech festivals such as "Struny
podzimu" (Autumn Strings) and Khamoro, and abroad in Moscow,
Ireland, Beirut.
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Iveta
Kovacova is the author of all vocal arrangements. She studied
singing at the Prague Conservatory and performed as a guest
with the music groups "Bacily" and "Naima" (jazz group) and
she appeared as a guest star in the musicals "Hair" and "The
Rat Catcher". She is the founder and the leader of the music
group TRINY.
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Dagmar Podkonicka graduated from the Prague conservatory.
For many years, she was a member of the country group Sally
Rose Band, which focused on American country music. Thanks
to this experience she later became also a TV presenter and
moderator of the popular TV program "Country plus". She has
performed in other popular musicals such as "Dracula", "Cleopatra",
"Three musketeers" and "The Rat Catcher".
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Jana
Prochazkova graduated from the private musical school of
Petr Novotný which educates future musical singers. She founded
her own private musical school and was its director for 2 years.
She moved to Prague to take advantage of the opportunity to
perform as a star in the musical "The Rat Catcher". Based on
this success she received further invitations to star at other
popular musicals, such as "Hair", "Beauty and the Beast" and
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| Musicians
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Pavel
Fischer - violin, vocals
Pavel Fischer is the founder of the group CAMAEL and the author
of instrumental arrangements. He graduated the Prague conservatory
and the music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
in the class of Nora Grumlíková. He focused intensively on chamber
music during his studies, taking First prize and the Grand Prix
winner at the Chamber Music Competition at Trapani in 1988 in
Italy (Duo violin and piano). In 1989 he founded the now world
famous "Skampa quartet", in which he plays first violin. Vrey
Nederlanden ranks Skampa quartet among the world's 10 top contemporary
string quartets. |
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Josef
Fiala - viola, singing
Native from Mariánské Lázně district and graduate of the music
faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from the studio
of Lubomír Malý. Currently, he is a pedagogue at the Conservatory
of music in Pilsen and member of Giovanni quartet. In the Czech
traditional music scene, he is irreplaceable for his excellent
improvisational skills, adaptations and arrangement abilities.
Along witj traditional folk music, he is also interested in
baroque music played on original historical instruments, based
on deep studies of the original historical interpretation.
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Jiri
Zelba - oboe, English horn, recorder, viola, singing and
anything else that can be played
The first music instrument he studied to play on in a music
school was a violin. However later he studied oboe at the Prague
conservatory and music faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in
Prague in the studio of Pavel Verner and Jiří Mihule. Since
1989 he has been member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
as the second oboe and English horn player. For several years
he has also performed with the music group Chorea Bohemica,
focused on Czech traditional music, where he has had the opportunity
to concentrate on perfecting his knowledge of traditional music
under the tutelage of Jaroslav Krček. In his free time he takes
every opportunity to to play with professional or amateur Czech
traditional music groups.
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Frantisek
Raba - contrabass, vocals. CAMAEL is rounded out by double
bassist Frantiek Raba, whose musical journey has taken him
from the Prague Symphony Orchestra to the huge musical projects
such as "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Evita", "Grease", Cleopatra
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graduated from the Prague conservatory, he has also performed
and recorded with a number of music groups covering diverse
musical genres - TOČR, Golem, KGB, The Orchestra of Karel Vlach,
Nerez, Zuzana Navarová and the group KOA..... and also famous
Czech soloists - Rudolf Rokl, Ivan Kral, Radim Hladík. |
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