Jan-Filip Tupa

* in the Czech Republic; cellist; studied in Prague and Essen and with Raphael Wallfisch at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London; as a scholarship holder of the Kunststiftung NRW he took part in the Lucerne Festival Academy and in 2006/07 in the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie in Frankfurt am Main; specialised in contemporary solo and chamber music repertoire for cello, with a particular interest in microtonal cent deviations and complex tempo relations; plays in the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Musikfabrik, the ensemble proton bern, the Ensemble Garage and the Ensemble Matka as well as in the Quartett Praesenz and the Trio PRAESENZ|aer with Richard Haynes and Reto Staub; also active in free improvisation. At the centre of his solo repertoire are “Tout un monde lointain” by Henri Dutilleux, “Ode an den Westwind” by Hans Werner Henze and “Concerto en forme de pas de trois” by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. For ARTist – Musik zur Zeit he devised the concert series “Panakustika – Konzerte für Querhörer”. For Cybele Records he took part in Jacqueline Fontyn and the Concerto (2014) and Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the Late Symphonic Works (2017).