Kryštof Mařatka & Karine Lethiec: Music Among Paintings

The National Gallery Prague, in collaboration with the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, presents a musical afternoon with Czech composer, conductor and performer Kryštof Mařatka and French violist Karine Lethiec.

The programme links contemporary music, improvisation and a presentation of archaic trance instruments that Mařatka collects, reconstructs and uses in his work. A musical walk with the performers is interspersed with short commentary by educator Monika Švec Sybolová on selected artworks.

Programme: Signály, improvisation; Kryštof Mařatka: Altotem for solo viola; Elise Bertrand: Trans 51 for viola; Kryštof Mařatka: Faliko for viola, phallic ocarina and Amazonian lure; Philippe Hersant: Archaïos for solo viola; presentation of archaic trance instruments; Pascale Jakubowski: Sefar for solo viola; Kryštof Mařatka: Sono Anima for viola and archaic trance instruments.

The programme takes place within the exhibition “Against the Current. Group of Surrealists. 1934-2024”.