Classical: NEXT official selection (NL) - 2019
Showcased at Mundial Montréal (CA) - 2018
Winners of the Classic Prague Awards 2017 – the best crossover project
Showcased at WOMEX (HU) - 2015
2x Guests of Bobby McFerrin’s Prague concerts (CZ)
Winners of International Songwriting Competition in Nashville, USA - 2005
A quartet of excellent clarinet players from the borders of contemporary and classical music, jazz, world music, electronic music and multi-genre projects. Classically educated they master their instruments to present their own creations. The music understandable to various audiences. That is why they were successfully showcased both at WOMEX 2015 and Classical: NEXT 2019.
“They are absolutely original, unique and great,”
- Gerald Seligman, the respected American journalist and producer
“Clarinet Factory are a Czech quartet of clarinets and bass clarinet that have been active for 25 years and are rather brilliant in creating dark and slightly threatening soundscapes. The music they make is atmospheric, moody and ultimately exhilarating. I’ve seen them live on a couple of occasions and come away impressed.”
- Simon Broughton (UK), Songlines, (10/2020)
“Music without borders that will jinx you like a voodoo priestess and whose hypnotic filter will not let go.”
- Jean Claude Vantroyen (BE), Soir, (05/2017)
Clarinet Factory have also composed film music as well as compositions for theatre and ballet performances (latest cooperation with VerTeDance – CORRECTION won the most prestigious Czech award in the field of contemporary dance: Dance Piece of the Year award – 2014; + Herald Angel Award 2015 /Audience Award at BE FESTIVAL 2015 / Mess Festival Award 2015 / Total Theatre Award 2015 nomination).
Clarinet Factory discography:
PIPERS (12 June 2020, Supraphon)
MEADOWS CD (2017, homerecords.be), LP (2018)
Worx and Reworx (2014, Supraphon) – double album of Clarinet Factory’s imaginary “best of” and remixes
Out of Home (2010, Supraphon), Echoes of Colors (2010, Aura-Pont / Supraphon), Eternal Seekers (2008), Polyphony (2005), Echoes from Stone (2003)
Clarinet Factory performed for example:
2019: Classical: NEXT (NL), tour in Canada (6 gigs in July)
2018: tour in France and Belgium, solo concert for Czech Philharmonic, Mundial Montréal showcase (CA)
2017: Ruse Festival (BG); Théatre des Abbesses, Paris (FR); Colours of Ostrava (CZ)
2016: Prague Spring (CZ); Aux heures d’été, Nantes (FR); Japan tour (with Correction)
2015: Red Sea Jazz Festival (IL); Bobby McFerrin concert (CZ); WOMEX showcase (HU)
...Jazzlent Maribor (Slo), Jazz Peak Sofia (BG), Mitte Europa (D), Inalfa festival (NL)