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With Katerina Chrobokova on purity of style and going beyond genre.

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The organist and harpsichord player Katerina Chrobokova has performed at many prestigious music festivals abroad, and works with important ensembles and conductors. She has taken part in many international master courses with famous musicians. Katerina has given concerts at international organ festivals in the Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, England and Scotland. She has worked with the Janacek Chamber Orchestra, and with the Olomouc Moravian Philharmonic she gave the world premiere of E. Skoczek's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra at the 2006 International Organ Festival in Olomouc. Last year she appeared with the renowned Anima Eterna Orchestra conducted by Jose van Immerseel in Brussels and Brusges with a performance of B. Martintu's Harpsichord Concerto. Her repertoire includes music from different stylistic periods. She is an enthusiastic performer and popularizer of contemporary music, which she presents at festivals at home and abroad in co-operation with composers and other musicians. She has been teaching at the Janacek Conservatory and Grammar School in Ostrava since 2004. She has also been invited to teach at international courses for organists--Oundle for Organists in England and the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

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After studying organ at the Janacek Conservatory in Ostrava you started to study at the Janacek Academy in Brno. Soon after that your musical studies took you abroad. Where precisely and with which teachers?

Halfway through my second year at JAMU I was chosen for a scholarship at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht in the Netherlands. After finishing my scholarship with professor Jan Raas I was accepted as a regular student in the Tweede Fase (equivalent of master's course-editor's note). Since then I have moved around to various parts of Europe and as far as friends and professional contacts are concerned, I feel I'm a European.

What have you got out of studying abroad?

Studying abroad opens...

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