Jiří Stivín

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Jiří Stivín (2012)

Jiří Stivín (born November 23, 1942 in Prague ) is a Czech musician and composer . He works as an interpreter in the field of early music and modern creative jazz .

Live and act

Stivín comes from a family of artists. He is the son of actress Eva Svobodová and grandson of theater director Milan Svoboda . His sister is the actress Zuzana Stivínová and his cousin the jazz musician Milan Svoboda . He had learned to play the violin as a child , but then stopped playing an instrument until he was 18 years old. It was only during his studies at the Prague Film Academy (where he was trained as a cameraman ) that he began to make music again. As an autodidact he began to play the saxophone in the Czech beat group “Sputnici”; he then received flute lessons from the baroque music expert Milan Munclinger . During his military service he played with jazz musicians such as the bass player Vincenc Kummer in the quintet of the army art ensemble. He won several awards as an amateur musician, for example at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival .

As a member of Martin Kratochvíl's formation "Jazz Q" and from 1967 to 1969 the "SHQ Combo" around Karel Velebný , he played early on in top formations of Czech jazz. In the Prague ensemble “Quax” he turned to avant-garde music. 1968 visited Stivin John Thanks Worth class at the Royal Academy of Music and played in London in the Scratch Orchestra of Cornelius Cardew . After returning to Prague, he worked in a wide variety of musical directions from old to new music and jazz, which could be described as global music in Czech .

Stivín continued to play with “Jazz Q” and appeared repeatedly as a soloist in the big band of the Czechoslovak Radio under the direction of Václav Zahradník ; he was also heard repeatedly with the big band led by Milan Svoboda. The collaboration with “Jazz Q” resulted in separate groups called Stivín & Co Jazz System . In the 1970s and 1980s he also gave numerous solo concerts (with tapes). Stivín, who is also known as the soloist in the flute concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann , has participated in record productions with leading Czechoslovak chamber orchestras.

Jiří Stivín (1978)

He is known not only as a flute player, but also as a flute collector and creative flute maker, who also constructs flutes from absurd raw materials such as plastic or metal pipes, which he presents in concert. He also works as an interpreter of Renaissance and Baroque music on recorders. Stivín has produced LP and CD productions with partners such as Rudolf Dašek , Zbigniew Seifert , Barre Phillips , Pierre Favre and his own combo. The partnership with Dašek initially lasted from 1972 to 1975, was renewed in the 1980s and continues to the present day. Dašek and Stivin currently (2007) form a trio with the drummer Günter Baby Sommer and regularly give concerts. He continued to play with Joe Sachse , Károly Binder , Theo Jörgensmann , Milan Svoboda, Gabriel Jonás, percussionist Alan Vitouš and Tony Scott . He also appeared regularly in Ali Haurand's (1943–2018) projects , for example in the European Jazz Ensemble .

Stivín almost always wears a so-called racket cap during his appearances in order to hide his bald head and as his trademark, on the other hand he combines playing the flute with acting, which is sometimes clownish, sometimes romantic.

Three of his children now also work as musicians (drummer / jazz, flutist / classical, bassist / jazz), another daughter is the actress Zuzana Stivínová .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978: I don't want to hear anything (Nechci nic slyšet)
  • 1983: Fauns too late afternoon (Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne)
  • 1984: King Thrushbeard (Král Drozdia Brada)
  • 1986: Antonys Chance (Antonyho šance)
  • 1986: Like poison (Jako jed)
  • 1988: The purest drama (Dámská jízda)
  • 1988: The Water of Life (O živej vode)
  • 1989: The Falcon King (Jestřábí moudrost)
  • 1990: Martha and I (Martha et moi)
  • 1993: Vaclav Havel - A Bohemian Fairy Tale
  • 1995: fog
  • 1997: boomerang

literature

  • Lubomír Dorůžka : Czechoslovak jazz scene today . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (=  cassette ). No. 3 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, p. 120–128 (therein Stivín, p. 125).
  • Lubomír Dorůžka: Jazz in Czechoslovakia . In: That's jazz. The sound of the 20th century. Exhibition catalog. Darmstadt 1988.
  • Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
  • Alexander J. Schneller, Ada Schneller: That Jazz of Praha. Fourteen jazz portraits in words and pictures. Vitalis, Furth im Wald 2006, ISBN 3-89919-097-1 , pp. 59–70.

Web links

Commons : Jiří Stivín  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. after Doruzka Jazz in Czechoslovakia
personal data
SURNAME Stivín, Jiří
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague