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 Beata Hlavenková (Morávková)
In contemporary she has been active as a leader of Beata Hlavenkova Trio (2005 – till today) performing her original compositions together with the most renowned musicians of Czech jazz scene, the drummers Pavel Bady Zboril, Jiri Slavicek, Roman Vicha, and the bassists Rasto Uhrik or Tomas Liska. The Trio (with R. Uhrik and R. Vicha) won the award “Jazz Junior 2005“ as the ensemble of the year plus the Best Composition and Best Music Arrangement awards of the year.
Besides her own band activities, as a composer and performer she has contributed to a special project S´aight meeting guitarist and composer Patrik Hlavenka, Rosta Fras (tenor saxophone), Jaromir Honzak (bass) and Dano Soltys (drums) in 2004. Critically well acclaimed album of the title originated the same year. Summer 2005 has welcomed a remarkable double-ensemble project S’aight and Vertigo Connection winning the music competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. December same year they continued as Open Sextet welcoming renowned players of the international jazz scene Ingrid Jensen (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Rich Perry (tenor saxophone) along the special concerts in Prague. A reunion of all mentioned in prevous line came in 2008 for JazzFestBrno for a special live concert international radio broadcasting program EBU which ranged among the most respected highlights of the Czech jazz season of the year. At 2006 she was the co-founding member and also composer for Jaromir Honzak jazz trio Face of the Bass (with R. Vicha).
In September 2008 she has released co-album with Lenka Dusilova and Clarinet Factory Eternal Seekers, the project where she greatly contributed as a composer and arranger.
In January 2009 she is going to record a new album of her own together with renowned New York jazz players Ingrid Jensen (trumpet, flugelhorn), Rich Perry (tenor saxophone), Dave Easley (pedal steel guitar), Matt Clohesy (double bass) and Jon Wikan (drums). The album to go off in April next year follows a special commission by the Czech jazz label “Animal Music“ of Petr Ostrouchov will lounch a tour in Czech Republic, Austria and Germany in April next year as well.
Education
1992-98 – Janacek Conservatory of Music, Ostrava, CZ:
classical music composition
2001-4 – University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA:
Master´s Degree in composition, jazz composition and arrangement
(with Jeffrey Holmes, Salavatore Macchia plus master-classes with Danillo Perez,
Roy Hargrove, Dave Berkman)
2004 - Betty Carter Jazz Ahead, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
(with Curtis Fuller, John Clayton etc.)
Awards
2005 – Jazz Junior – Best Ensemble, Best Composition, Best Arrangement for Beata Hlavenkova Trio;
2005 – First Prize of Montreux Jazz Festival Competition for S’aight and Vertigo Connection
2006- Czech Radio First Prize for Anonymous Composer for „Dachshund behind a column in fog, alias Monday Meeting“ composition
Symphonical music
1998 - Three Times About the Same – for Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, CZ
Music for drama
1999 - Heaven Love –Theater Tramtaria, Olomouc, CZ
Jazz Arrangements
2002 - Abby Riccards, New York based jazz singer (Down Beat Awards 2002, 2004)
2004 - UMass Big Band, USA
Cooperations
As author, co-author, arranger and performer
2004 – 2007: Yvonne Sanchez (bossa nova & jazz singer), Vertigo Quintet (modern acoustic jazz), David Doruzka Trio (modern acoustic jazz)
2005 – till today - Lenka Dusilova (Czech rock & pop star)
2006 - Vera Martinova (first lady of Czech country music)
2008 - Eternal Seekers – (with Lenka Dusilova, Clarinet Factory): new compositions and arrangements for solo vocal, clarinet quartet and rhythm section;
2008 - Jazz in Rudolfinum event in Prague Dvorak Hall, with Prague Philharmonia, Beata Hlavenkova Trio and Lenka Dusilova: original works.
As Educator
2005 – 2006: High Jazz Studies Department of Jaroslav Jezek Jazz Conservatory in Prague: composition, ensemble;
2006 – till today: New York University in Prague: composition, jazz piano, ensemble.
2008 – Co-author of guidelines for the very first Czech university jazz education department to open soon at Janacek Academy of Music in Brno.
International Appearances
Beata has played in Poland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Norway, Canada, U.S.A, Slovakia, Turkey, and performed at several renowned international events as Montreux Jazz Festival, IAJE Conference in Toronto, Jazz Festival in Regensburg, Jazz Festival in Turkey, and at Czech jazz festivals Jazz Goes to Town Hradec Kralove, JazzFestBrno, Jazzinec Trutnov, and others.
Media Appearances
Czech TV:
CT Brno: 2005 Kulturni medailon (S´aight Profile);
CT2: 2006, 2008 Noc s Andelem (Benedikta; Eternal Seekers);
CT Brno: 2007 Na Pekarne (live concert with Lenka Dusilova);
CT1: 2008 Dobre rano s Eternal seekers (Eternal Seekers);
CT 2: 2008 Kultura cz. (Beata Hlavenková’s profile)
Czech Radio:
CRo / EBU: 2008 Open Sextet feat. Ingrid Jensen and Rich Perry, JazzFestBrno
Instruments
Concert Piano (cooperation with Czech piano building company Petrof),
Fender Rhodes
Korg Triton
Discography
2001 – Vera Martinova – Slunci je to jedno
2002 – Katka Sarkozi – Magorie
2004 – S’aight
2005 – Triny - Aven
2006 – Vera Martinová – Verim svym snum
2006 – Adam Vojtech, Jiri Mádl
2008 – Eternal Seekers - Clarinet Factory, Lenka Dusilova, Beata Hlavenková
2009 – Beata Hlavenková - Joy For Joel
Favorites
Her favorites include Ingrid Jensen, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Take 6, as well as Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, Gil Evans and Maria Schneider, yet also Prince, Michael Jackson, Steely Dan, Sting and many more others..
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