PAMPINEA
ABOUT US
Co-director
Fiona Kizzie Lee
Co-director
Maruša Brezavšček
Recorder and Keyboard Player Fiona Kizzie Lee performs internationally as a soloist and co-directs award-winning ensembles in Basel and Hong Kong. Her recent performances in early music festivals included the London International Early Music Festival (2023, GB), Seviqc Brevice (2023, SI), Salzburger Festtage alter und neuer musik (2023, AT), Muzyka w raju (2023, PL), Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe (2023, NL), among others. Her ensembles won the first prize of the London Early Music Young Ensemble Competition and were finalists and semi-finalists in the International Young Artists Competition in York, England (2019) and the Internationaal Van Wassenaer Concours in Utrecht, Netherlands (2019) respectively.
Fiona is also a researcher and educator in early music, frequently invited to teach and speak in events internationally, such as the Renaissancemusikwoche in Sondershausen (2022, DE) and the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (2023, CZ). She devotes herself in organizing numerous concerts, lectures and classes in Hong Kong to raise the interest of the public in early music. Together with L'Artiste, she spoke and perform at HKUST Center for the Arts (Artist-in-residence 2017/18), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong City University, The Education University of Hong Kong etc. and also in Macau (2018) and Japan (2015).
Fiona was a Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund scholar in 2016-2017, which supported her studies of a first Masters in Musiocology (Distinction) at King's College London. Based in Basel since 2017, she studied recorder and early keyboards with Corina Marti, obtaining two further Masters in Performance at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (2019, 2021). She is now reading a Doctorate in Musicology at the University of Zürich, with her project funded by the UZH Candoc Grant and the UZH Start-Up Grant .
Maruša Brezavšček is a Slovenian recorder player, specialising in early and contemporary music, also active as a performer of the baroque bassoon and dulcian. She is based in Basel, Switzerland.
She teaches recorder at the Academy for Music in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Maruša has been the recipient of numerous prestigious accolades, including First prizes at the TARF 3 (Tel Aviv Recorder Competition) in 2020 in two distinct categories and First prize at the ERPS (European Recorder Players Society) Competition in Graz (2016). In September 2021, she received the Ivan Werner award for artistic achievement for her performance as a soloist with the ensemble Musica Cubicularis at the Varaždinske Barokne Većeri festival.
Maruša is active as a soloist, as well as a chamber musician, and is a founding member of ensembles Ensemble Bastion and Ensemble Pampinea. The latter received the First prize at the London International Festival of Early Music competition in 2022.
She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras/ensembles including Capricornus Consort Basel, Musica Cubicularis and the Chamber Ensemble of the Slovenska Filharmonija. As a soloist with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, she performed in prestigious venues in Israel, including Zucker Hall in Tel Aviv and the YMCA in Jerusalem.
Maruša obtained diplomas with distinction from Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/Musikakademie Basel, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, took part in an Erasmus exchange at Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya and underwent a Corso libero Flauto dolce at Conservatorio di Musica Luca Marenzio di Brescia.
Vojtěch Jakl
Vojtěch Jakl studied in the class of Amandine Beyer at the prestigious early music institute, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and holds degrees from the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, under the guidance of Lenka Torgersen, as well as the Prague Conservatoire, where he studied with Dagmar Zárubová and Jaroslav Foltýn. Throughout his career, Vojtěch has had the privilege of participating in masterclasses led by esteemed musicians such as Leila Shayegh, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, René Jacobs, Lenka Torgersen, Jana Semerádová, John Holloway, Lucy van Dael, Ton Koopman, Patrick Cohën-Akenine, among others.
Vojtěch actively performs across Europe, showcasing his skills on a variety of historical bowed instruments and specializing in a wide repertoire of early music. He has been invited to perform at renowned stages and festivals including Bachfest Leipzig, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Salzburger Festspiele, Berliner Philharmonie, BOZAR (Palais des Beaux-Arts) Brussels, the Prague Spring Festival, Château de Versailles Spectacles, Resonanzen Festival Wien, London Early Music Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, Concentus Moraviae festival, and more.
Vojtěch has collaborated with esteemed directors such as Rudolf Lutz, Václav Luks, René Jacobs, Olivier Schneebeli and soloists Magdalena Kožená, Andreas Scholl, Philippe Jaroussky, Emöke Barath, Leila Shayegh, Xenia Löffler, Barbara Maria Willi, Hana Blažíková, Dagmar Šašková, among others. He is an active member of ensembles such as Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks), Collegium Marianum (Jana Semerádová, Lenka Torgersen), Ensemble Inégal (Adam Viktora), and Musica Florea (Marek Štryncl). Vojtěch is also a founding member of the B3 Ensemble and the Basel-based Rýnský Trio. Additionally, he has showcased his talent with medieval vielle, as part of the renowned ensemble La Morra (Corina Marti, Michał Gondko) and the recently formed Ensemble Pampinea.
Vojtěch has contributed to numerous CD recordings for respected labels such as Pentatone, Accent, Prospero, Ramée, Glossa, Chateau de Versailles Spectacles, Supraphon, ARTA, among others. His dedication to early music has been recognized through awards at various competitions, including the Biagio Marini Competition 2021 in Neuburg, The London International Festival of Early Music Competition 2022, Da Vinci Young Sounds 2022, and the Manhattan International Music Competition 2023.