Bruncvík Boys’ Choir Quartet

The Bruncvík Boys’ Choir Quartet is made up of four young men who received their training in the Bruncvík Boys’ Choir. The Boys’ Choir was established in spring 2006 by Lenka Pištecká. While providing the children with voice training and general musical education Pištecká also applies her talent to developing the children’s characters as a whole, for at all times the voice reflects each personality.

With the founding of the choir, it is also director Pištecká’s aim to augment the number of boys choirs in the Czech Republic to a total of five (in addition to Boni pueri – Hradec Králové, Pueri gaudentes – Prague, Bonifantes – Pardubice, Páni kluci – Litomerice) and thus to gain a status somewhat closer to European traditions (especially Germany, Austria, Scandinavian countries) where boys choirs are a natural component of the music cultivated in the respective countries. In those countries, such choirs are also perceived as an effective social institution, for they are extremely effective in forming the youngest male population, whereby the emphasis on team work and a closer knowledge of cultural values generates honorable and cultured adults.

Bruncvík (named after a medieval legendary knight, whose famous statue is poised on the banks of the river Vltava facing Prague’s Charles Bridge) personifies the choir director’s attempts to cultivate in the up-and-coming generation a sense of knightly virtues including honor, truth, and courage. The main aim of the choir is to derive joy from singing everywhere—during rehearsals, on stages, in meadows, etc.

Choir Director Lenka Pištecká has devoted herself to music since childhood; then as a member of the Prague Children’s Choir led by Cestmír Stašek. Her professional career as a soloist was far from straightforward; she studied singing privately (L. Hanzalíková, National Theatre soloist). Having graduated from secondary school, she was employed as a secretary. Following success in an open competition, she became a member of the Czechoslovak Radio Choir. She gained a wealth of experience under conductors Milan Malý and Pavel Kühn.

Having graduated from the Prague Conservatory (B.Šulcová), she then studied privately with J. Kotouc. Since then, she has intensively devoted herself to concert appearances and to performances of oratoria. She gained a wealth of experience in singing sacred music as a soloist (since 1984) in the ensemble Cantores Pragenses which is affiliated to St. Jacob’s Church. She has also appeared regularly with the ensembles Camerata Nova and Collegium Flauto Dolce.

She has sung in a number of international performances of Handel’s Oratoria Messiah and Judas Macabea, Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Requiem and Dvo?ák’s Stabat Mater both in Bohemia and abroad. For many years she has taught and has held the position of vocal advisor to church choirs in Prague and elsewhere.

In addition to her own private classes in Prague (since 1994), she also spent several years teaching vocalists at the Volkshochschule Furt im Wald in Germany. In 2002-2005 she was vocal advisor to the ensemble Pueri gaudentes.

As a teacher, she devotes her attention both to beginners and to master skills and has successfully employed the method of vocal relaxation. This activity came to fruition in an international seminar for youth entitled Sing, Dance and Paint from your Heart (Trebon 2005), with EU support. Since 2000, she has regularly attended the Summer School in Valtice as a lecturer.

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11/2/10: Bruncvík Boys’ Choir Quartet

The group from the Czech Republic sings Gregorian chants, renaissance and baroque music, spirituals, and folk songs. Followed by a vocal workshop. Part of Kids Euro Festival 2010.

Bruncvík Boys’ Choir Quartet

The group from the Czech Republic sings Gregorian chants, renaissance and baroque music, spirituals, and folk songs. Followed by a vocal workshop. Part of Kids Euro Festival 2010.

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