Libor Šmoldas & Vendula Šmoldasová
Saturday 02. 03. 2019, 20:30
The performers
Libor Šmoldas ()
Libor Šmoldas is a Czech jazz guitarist. His concert activity spans four continents and world capitals New York, Washington, Sydney, Beijing, Istanbul, Vienna, Berlin, Denver, Milan, Philadelphia, Brisbane, Melbourne and London. With his quartet, he was the first Czech jazz band to tour the USA and regularly returns there, as well as on annual concert tours to Australia and other countries. Among the world clubs where he performs are the legendary Pizza express, Smalls, Iridium, Blue Note, Dear Head Inn and Bennetts Lane. In the Czech Republic, he has played over two thousand club concerts, leading festivals such as Prague Spring, Prague Proms, Brno Jazz Fest, Bohemia Jazz Fest, Strings of Autumn and Janáček’s May, and collaborated with top Czech jazz artists including Ondřej Pivec, Robert Balzar and David Dorůžka. He has played and recorded with world-class musicians such as George Mraz, Jeff Ballard, Sam Yahel, Bobby Watson, Adam Nussbaum, Brian Charette and Jay Anderson. Libor has won many awards, such as the Best Jazz Composition of 2014 and the Angel Award for Jazz Record of the Year with the Organic Quartet. He teaches at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague and at international workshops in England, Germany, Greece, Italy and Australia. He has released nine albums under his own name and many more as a collaborator.
Zeurítia ()
Vendula Šmoldasová is a Czech singer performing as Zeurítia. Zeurítia is mainly known on the Czech music scene for singing bossa nova in Brazilian Portuguese. Vendula studied singing at the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek, and then jazz singing at the higher technical school in Prague. In 2005 he started to specialize in Brazilian bossa nova and touring in a duo with her current husband, Libor Šmoldasem. In 2007 she founded the band Beloff Zeurítia and first album with the same name. The Board has been received with great success and is one of the best selling plates of jazz music with us. In New York she has worked on the Board by LIBOR Šmoldase In New York on George Time Mráz, Sam Yahelem, and Jeff Ballard. In the Mecca of Jazz also took singing lessons with Peter Eldridge (Manhattan School of Music, the bands New York Voices, Moss). At the Prague Jazz Workshop in turn from the evil and the jazzfest Brno fans well known Polka AGA Zaryan. Education has expanded in London and in Germany, where she graduated from jazz workshops under the leadership of Pete Churchill, Tina May and Guillermo Rozenthulera.
