Board of Delegates
(in alphabetical order)
Ales Brezina, CZ
Michael Crump, UK (Chair)
Erik Entwistle, USA
Gert Floor, Netherlands
Lucie Harasim, Germany
Marc Landou, France
Yukiko Sawa, Japan
Zoja Seyckova, CZ (Deputy Chair)
Biographies of the Board Members
Ales Brezina, Czech Republic
Aleš Březina, the director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute, is active in many different fields of musical endeavour. As a composer, he has written music for the concert hall, theatre and cinema (and has even occasionally appeared on the big screen himself). As a musicologist, he has published numerous books and has lectured widely in Europe and the USA. He was responsible for founding the IMC and remains heavily involved in all its activities. Aleš chairs the board meetings which supervise the Complete Critical Edition of Martinů's works. Recently, this project scored a notable success: the volume devoted to The Epic of Gilgamesh was awarded the prize 'Best Edition for 2015' by the German Music Publishers Association.
You can read more information in Patrick Lambert's profile of Aleš, in the second issue of the Martinů Revue for 2015.
Michael Crump, UK
Michael Crump studied music at New College, Oxford and completed his postgraduate thesis on the Martinů symphonies at Birmingham University in 1986. His book “Martinů and the Symphony” was published by Toccata Press in 2010. He has since then prepared performing materials for Martinů's early orchestral works Posvícení, Malá taneční suita, and the ballet Stín, all recently recorded by Toccata Classics. He is now occupied with similar work on the orchestral cycle Míjející půlnoc and the ballet Noc. He is the IMC regional representative for the UK and the new IMC Chairman from 2017.
Erik Entwistle, USA
Pianist, composer and musicologist Erik Entwistle has been performing and teaching for over 30 years. His critically acclaimed recordings feature the music of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů and he is an award-winning writer on music history.
Gert Floor, Netherlands
Gert Floor is a lifelong enthusiast of classical music, from the Renaissance to the 21st century. He is an amateur viola player. He worked as a GP for 20 years and then spent 15 years as a music librarian in the Public library of Heiloo, a small town south of Alkmaar (famous for its cheese market). His interest in Martinů's music was aroused by the enthusiasm of Zoja Seyčková, whom he met at an international library conference. He retired in 2012 and now works to promote classical music for young listeners. He is the IMC regional representative for Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Lucie Harasim Berná, Germany
Lucie Harasim Berná is a musicologist and author of numerous publications and scientific studies on Martinů (eg. A View of His Life and Music, 2008). Between years 2003 and 2011 she worked in the Bohuslav Martinů Institute. She participated in the preparation of the revised edition of the monograph and catalogue of Bohuslav Martinů works (author Harry Halbreich, 2007, Schott, Mainz) and between 2003 and 2007 she was entrusted with preparing the Bohuslav Martinů Festival in Prague. She has been the international coordinator of the project "Martinů Revisited" (2009 – 2010) which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Currently she works externally on the complete edition of the composer's works. Since 2006 she has prepared the Martinů Revue as an editor. She is the IMC regional representative for Germany.
Marc Landou, France
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Marc LANDOU is a retired Human Resources Manager in the automotive industry in France. His love of Martinů's music arose from his participation in Mouvement Janáček (created by the French musicologist Guy Erismann), including two musical trips to Prague in 1988 and 1989. He then intensively explored a treasure trove of Martinů's Supraphon LPs in Compiègne public library, probably donated by someone from nearby Vieux-Moulin who knew the composer, and then fell definitively under the spell of Martinů's music.
Marc is IMC regional representative for France and French-speaking members in Belgium and Switzerland.
Yukiko Sawa, Japan
The pianist, teacher, and translator Yukiko Sawa hails from Tokyo. She graduated from the piano at Musashino Academy in Tokyo and then completed a postgraduate course at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under Prof. Josef Páleníček. This fact has made Yukiko Sawa one of the leading proponents of Czech music in Japan.
Besides her frequent concert performances, she is an active member of the Leoš Janáček Society in Japan, and after the death of Dr Hideo Sekine, she has taken a leading cultural role in the Czech-Japanese Society while also becoming president of the International Martinů Circle in Japan.
Yukiko Sawa is a popular piano teacher and methodologist – she is tenured at Seitoku University, where she trains present and future teachers from the all over Japan.
Zoja Seyčková, Czech Republic
Zoja Seyčková, the deputy director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute, is by profession a librarian and information specialist. She was the president (2011- 2022) of the Czech Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML). Since 2001, she has worked in the Bohuslav Martinů Institute, managing its library and website and aiding researchers. She oversaw the on-line conversion (at www.martinu.cz) of the Martinů Foundation's library catalogue, and of the catalogue of Martinů’s works. She is one of the editors of the Martinů Revue and is the IMC Deputy Chairwoman from 2017.