About the Performers

Lucie Laubová

Lucie Laubová graduated from the Evangelical Academy Conservatory in Olomouc and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (under Professor Magdaléna Hajóssyová). She is the recipient of the 3rd prize at the International Competition Premio Internazionale di Canto Lirico (Fasano, Italy), as well as numerous other awards for her interpretation in both song and opera. Since her studies, she has been actively performing — in addition to solo and chamber projects, she has collaborated with the Academic Chamber Soloists at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Wranitzky Kapelle Orchestra in Prague, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc, and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in Zlín. On the opera stage, she has performed as a guest artist at the State Theatre in Košice and the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec. In addition to European countries, she has also performed in the USA (concert as part of the exhibition “Favorite Songs and Arias of Czech Prima Donnas,” organized by the Metropolitan Opera in collaboration with the Czech Center New York).

Cécile Boiffin

After Cécile Boiffin finished her percussion studies in France (Conservatoire de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt) and in Germany (Musikhochschule Freiburg i.B.), she has become a member of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, where she has been performing since. She regularly appears as a chamber musician and a soloist, and she is active in various musical genres, including jazz, traditional African music, and folk music. She also composes for, including but not limited to, percussion instruments. During her studies in Freiburg, she discovered compositions that combine percussion with text, resonating with her original focus on literature, and began working with her own voice. In 2003, she founded the ensemble Cilijen with the actor Jan Sklenář, where she continues to explore the possibilities of merging spoken word with a wide range of percussion instruments.

David Mimra

David Mimra graduated from the Pardubice Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno with a focus on violin performance. He furthered his studies at Toho Gakuen Academy in Toyama, Japan. He has performed in most European countries as well as in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He worked as a violinist with the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic in Zlín, the Prague Philharmonia, and the Macao Orchestra. He also performed as the first violinist of the Vereor String Quartet and the Macao String Quartet. He was also the artistic director of Collegium Arion. David Mimra taught at the Česká Třebová Elementary Art School, the Macao Conservatory and Music Primary School, and the Evangelical Academy Conservatory in Olomouc. He is currently a violin teacher at the Fantazie Elementary Art School in Olomouc and serves as the director of ISIS – Civic Association for Supporting Foster Families, z. s.

The website Kreativnibudoucnost.cz (CreativeFuture.cz) was created as a presentation of the eponymous conference, which took place in 2018. The website has been very successful. We have therefore added further data on the project Promotion of Art Education for Equal Opportunities (the conference was an inherent part of this project). This was followed by a page on teacher education. The latest items on the website are the newly created sections for the wandering opera project The Heart of a Dog and, most recently, the Prepared Piano project.

The website Kreativnibudoucnost.cz (CreativeFuture.cz) was created as a presentation of the eponymous conference, which took place in 2018. The website has been very successful. We have therefore added further data on the project Promotion of Art Education for Equal Opportunities (the conference was an inherent part of this project). This was followed by a page on teacher education. During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ´Artists´ and the ´Art School´ pages were created to support the artists. The last item of the website is the newly created promotion of the wandering opera Heart of a Dog.