Jan Kyncl and Vojtěch Procházka will perform together in the jazz club U Staré paní.
The performers
Jan Kyncl ()
Jan Kyncl is a saxophonist and composer who is one of the outstanding faces of the young Czech jazz generation. He regularly collaborates with top Czech jazz and alternative music artists, both as a sideman and leader. Currently he is involved in the projects Jan Kyncl Quartet, Kyncl Culture, FaKyn, Kristina Barta Quartet, Jan Smigmator & Band, Jan Smigmator Big Band, Camoes House Band. He also collaborates with big bands such as the Jazz Dock Orchestra and the Gustav Brom Radio Big Band. In addition to his varied musical activities, he works as a music dramaturge at the Czech Radio.
Vojtěch Procházka ()
Vojtěch Procházka is a Czech pianist, composer and improviser.
He moves between jazz and free improvisation. He studied piano, composition and North Indian classical music in Oslo, Paris and Prague. He is a co-founder of the band Vertigo, with which he has won three Golden Angel awards, and has long collaborated with prominent figures on the domestic and international scene - among them Harpreet Bansal, Sisa Feher (KHI), Michaela Antalová (Mikoo), Luboš Soukup (Freetown Quartet), Monika Načeva and Lucie Páchová (Talaqpo). He is also involved in film and theatre music (Handa Gote, Josef Tuka, Naivní divadlo Liberec, Divadlo Alfa Plzeň, etc.) and for more than twenty years he has been creating live soundtracks for silent films. He is also active in the field of improvised music (projects Krekso, PIO, ex-Bergljot) and plays harmonium in the brass ensemble FSKC Drancy. He teaches at the jazz department of HAMU and at New York University in Prague.