About us
Our vision
Klarinetissimo
Playing together, inspiration, and joy from the clarinet.
Klarinetissimo creates a space for clarinetists of all generations to come together.
It offers workshops focused on ensemble and chamber music playing in a friendly and motivating atmosphere.
We place emphasis on the musical experience, collaboration, and fun making music together.
Klarinetissimo is a project focused on playing together, the joy of music, and sharing experiences among clarinetists of all generations. It arose from the need to create a space where people meet not because of competition, but because of music itself.
The foundation of Klarinetissimo is workshops focused on ensemble and chamber playing, which are open to children, students, and adult amateur clarinetists. It does not matter whether you have several years of study behind you or play mainly for pleasure – what matters is the desire to play and to be part of making music together.
The main focus of the workshops is:
- playing in the Large Clarinet Orchestra,
- working in smaller chamber ensembles divided according to level,
- systematic yet clear work on ensemble coordination, rhythm, intonation, and expression.
We choose the repertoire so that it is appealing to listeners, musically meaningful, and comfortably playable. Klarinetissimo connects classical music with film, musical, and other stylistically open repertoire – always with an emphasis on the quality of the arrangements and the joy of playing together.
The workshop is intended for children, students, and adult clarinetists and is designed so that everyone takes away:
- new musical inspiration,
- experience playing in a larger ensemble,
- motivation for further practice,
and above all a positive experience of making music together.
The workshops are led by experienced clarinetists and teachers in a friendly, motivating atmosphere, where everyone has space to grow, ask questions, and try new things. Each meeting also includes a final joint performance, which gives the work done in the workshop a clear purpose and goal.
- Klarinetissimo is a place where:different generations of clarinetists meet,
- new friendships and musical collaborations are formed,
- and where it is confirmed again and again that music matters most when we share it.
We look forward to meeting you at one of our workshops.
The Klarinetissimo Team
Zuzana Čajková & Jaroslav Škuta
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The Klarinetissimo Team
Zuzana Čajková
Zuzana Čajková studied clarinet at the Conservatory in Teplice and then further expanded her education at international clarinet courses in Ostrava and in Žirovnice, South Bohemia.
From 2008 to the present, she has been the principal clarinetist of the North Bohemian Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ústí nad Labem, and since 2016 she has also been a member of the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice. She is also a regular guest with other Czech orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Prague, the Chamber Opera Prague, the orchestra of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, and others.
She gained teaching experience at the Elementary School of Arts in Chabařovice, where she has been teaching clarinet since 2010.
Jaroslav Škuta
Jaroslav Škuta was born in 1990 in Mělník, where he began playing the clarinet at the local elementary school of the arts at the age of 11. He studied clarinet performance at the Teplice Conservatory, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava, and Kent State University (Ohio, US), where he also worked as a Teaching Assistant from 2019 to 2020.
Since 2013 he works as a clarinetist in the orchestra of the North Bohemian Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He is a regular guest with Czech orchestras such as the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague, the orchestra of the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, and others.
As a performer, he also focuses on chamber music and contemporary music, regularly appearing at festivals such as Třídenní, Hudba v Souvislostech, and others.
Since 2021, he has been teaching clarinet at ZUŠ Prague 6, Nad Alejí 28. In his teaching, he emphasizes chamber and ensemble playing – he leads the Large Clarinet Ensemble of ZUŠ Nad Alejí.
He also arranges and composes pieces for beginner clarinetists and shares his materials in the Facebook group Clarinet, key, let’s play!
In 2023, he published his first publication entitled Fun Scales.
More information at www.jaroslavskuta.art
