TWO ARTISTS, TWO VIEWS – Coppey, Jamník

A protégé of Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, French cellist Marc Coppey entered the international music scene at the age of 18 by winning the prestigious Bach Competition in Leipzig. He has worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Kirill Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine or Yan Pascal Tortelier. He regularly records for the international labels Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Accord/Universal and Naïve and his performances are part of the audio-visual archives of Arte.tv and Medici.tv. A sought-after chamber musician and acclaimed interpreter of contemporary music, he has premiered works by composers such as Elliott Carter, Annunzio Mantovani, Eric Tanguy and Erkki-Sven Tüür. From 1995 to 2000 he was a member of the Ysaÿe Quartet. He is a professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris and since 2020 he has been the artistic director of the Saline Royale Academy d’Arc-et-Senans. He regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In 2014, he was awarded the title Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.

Winner of the 2006 Prague Spring Competition and finalist of the 2011 Pierre Fournier Award in London, Tomáš Jamník has made his debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Mozarteum in Salzburg and Japan’s Kitara Hall and Tokyo Metropolitan Hall. He studied cello at the HAMU in Prague under Mirko Škampa, Martin Škampa and Josef Chuchro, and continued his studies in Leipzig under Peter Bruns and at the Universität der Künste in Berlin under Jens Peter Maintz. He completed his studies as a scholarship holder at the renowned Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In addition, he has completed masterclasses with Heinrich Schiff, Gustav Rivinius, Truls Mørk, Pieter Wispelwey and Steven Isserlis. Tomáš Jamník also devotes himself to contemporary music: he has premiered works by Czech composers Miroslav Srnka, Michal Nejtek, Slavomír Hořínka, Marko Ivanović, Tomáš ‘Floex’ Dvořák and Ondřej Kukal. In 2018, he became the artistic director of the Ševčík Academy and is the author of the Vážný zájem (Serious Interest) initiative, which promotes the idea of house concerts.