Staff

Sandra Srnkova Bergmannova, M.A. (*1974)
musicologist

Sandra Srnkova Bergmannova studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Prague. Within the Tempus study programme she spent three months at the Music School of Durham University in England. Between 1995 and 1999 she studied composition at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory. Since 1993 she has taught piano and voice.

Since 1997 she has worked as a musicologist at the Bohuslav Martinu Institute. She participated in the preparations of the 5th edition of the Bohuslav Martinu Fest, held every December, and since 2001 has written and edited the festival’s brochure.

She is the author of the unique “Digitisation of Bohuslav Martinu Documents” project, which was launched in 1999 and to which she constantly devoted until 2001.

She participated in specialist analysis during the preparation of databases of Bohuslav Martinu’s correspondence and the database of Bohuslav Martinu’s compositions.
Furthermore, she co-created the first web information portal about Bohuslav Martinu, led “Prague musical life at the beginning of the 20th century” colloquia at the Bohuslav Martinů Institute and gave a paper entitled “Bohuslav Martinu’s Passing Midnights”.
Other projects she has worked on include Presentation of Bohuslav Martinů at Czech Centres, within which she organised the Bohuslav Martinu’s Life and Work exhibition for Czech Centres worldwide (New York, Sofia, Bucharest). In Bucharest she gave a paper about Martinu’s correspondence with Marcel Mihalovici, now being prepared as part of a Rumanian publication about Mihalovici.
In 2001 she implemented for the National Theatre the exhibition titled Bohuslav Martinu’s stage works through the eyes of contemporary artists, held in connection with several presentations of Bohuslav Martinu’s operas and ballets at the National Theatre.
From 2000 to 2004 she was an editor of and contributor to the Bohuslav Martinu Newsletter, published in English three times a year.
She has published articles in music periodicals, prepared texts for festivals and record labels, and is the author of a biographical study on Bohuslav Martinu in the encyclopaedic magazine Mistri klasicke hudby (Masters of Classical Music).

In 2001 she spent two months working in Paris within the preparations of the Bohuslav Martinu Complete Critical Edition, researching into source materials deposited at the publishing houses Max Eschig Éditions and Alphonse Leduc.

In November 2002 she gave a paper at the French colloquium Musique Tchèque et culture Française at Université de Paris - Sorbonne on the reception of French orchestral music in Prague at the beginning of the 20th century, which in 2004 was published in the volume L´Atraction et la nécessité, Musique Tchèque et culture française au XXe siècle.

In 2002 she began her postgraduate study of musicology at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Charles University in Prague.

Since 2001 she has participated in the preparation of the Bohuslav Martinu Complete Critical Edition (member of the Editorial Board). She has revised Martinu’s Symphony No. 3 (working with the source materials) for a new performance of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with the conductor Jiri Belohlavek and a subsequent recording for the Supraphon label.

She was the supervisor and specialist assistant of the JPD “Further Education of Music Editors” project (implementation 2006-2008) supported by the European Social Fund. 

At the present time, she is the co-ordinator of the Bohuslav Martinu Complete Critical Edition and she is preparing a volume of this edition: Martinu’s early symphonic works (Nocturno in F sharp minor, H. 91, Ballad: Villa on the Sea, H. 97, and Little Dance Suite, H. 123), and is a member of the implementation team for the project’s overall theoretical-methodological preparation.

Language skills: German, English, French.

Children: 
Jakub (2002)
Magdalena (2004)