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Václav Luks and Collegium 1704 launch Utrecht's Festival of Early Music

By Cynthia Wilson, 30 August 2014
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Reviewed at TivoliVredenburg: Grote Zaal, Utrecht on 29 August 2014
Programme
Fux, Te Deum
František Tůma, Stabat Mater
Zelenka, Missa Divi Xaverii
Performers
Václav Luks, Conductor
Hana Blažíková, Soprano
Kamila Mazalová, Mezzo-soprano
Václav Čížek, Tenor
Tomáš Král, Bass
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Cynthia Wilson
Cynthia Wilson
Boston-born, educated at Concord Academy and Sarah Lawrence College, Cynthia Wilson studied harpsichord in Amsterdam. She has performed, taught and held significant management positions: public radio, Philips Hall, Rotterdam Philharmonic. Wilson subsequently founded wwclassics: (arts) policy and (events) production. She recently published the biography of Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio).