We warmly invite you to a seminar for teachers.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Concert Hall, Jaroslav Kocian Music School, Ústí nad Orlicí, Smetanova 1500
The open teaching sessions (masterclass) will be led by the renowned educator Prof. Marek Jerie, emeritus professor at Hochschule Luzern and member of the Guarneri Trio Prague.
This seminar is intended for cello teachers. With advanced and intermediate students, he will demonstrate his teaching methods and, in the following discussion, explain the principles and reasoning behind his approaches for effective instruction.
The seminar will begin with an introduction on reading music score to ensure proper understanding of the composition and the composer’s artistic intent.
If needed, the seminar will be translated into English or German.
Marek Jerie is one of the most significant Czech cellists of his generation. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and he deepened his interpretative mastery on courses with the famous cellists – Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich and André Navarra.
He is a member of the Guarneri Trio Prague with Ivan Klánský and Čeněk Pavlík which performs in the season 2024/25 since 38 years in origine line-up. He has performed with this ensemble or as a soloist in many important music centers (London's Wigmore Hall, the Rudolfinum in Prague, Geneva, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Hamburg, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires) and in other major concert halls in Europe, Canada, Australia, Africa, North and South America, the Philipines, China and Japan.
To his credit the omitted concerts of Czech violoncello literature of the 18th century were rediscovered, performed, recorded and released, for example Josef Reicha and Josef Fiala. A number of contemporary composers, as Thüring Bräm, Luboš Fišer have dedicated their pieces to him. He has recorded many solo CDs with the piano, guitar, violin or the orchestra and the complete piano trios by Beethoven, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Schubert, Mozart and Brahms, which have been internationaly awarded many times (Diapason d´Or, CHOC, Le Monde de la Musique).
He worked as a professor of the cello and chamber music at the Music Academy in Lucerne for 34 years.
