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Marketa Foukalova & Martin Brunner

Martin Brunner & Marketa Foukalova

featuring Jodi Proznik, one of Canada’s finest jazz artists.

The Norman & Annete Rothstein Theatre

May 24, 2025 at 7:30pm

950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7

Marketa Foukalova

Marketa Foukalova – singer, composer, lyricist, and voice coach who has been an active performer since she was thirteen. As a seventeen-year-old she won the main prize at the voice competition Zlíntalet and started to perform with Czech pop star Eva Pilarová. In the past years, she has sung with and written for a number of bands, including the trip-hop Gang Ala Basta and the acid-jazz Madfinger with whom she won first prize at The Young Jazz Musician’s competition of the Philips International Jazz Festival. She has also collaborated with Michal Pavlíček, Kamil Střihavka, BSP, Michal Prokop, the bands Jasná páka, Hudba Praha, and J.A.R., with Vladimír Mišík on his latest recordings, Matěj Benk on the project Planety, or the jazz big band Concept Art Orchestra, and she has also performed with the classical-music Duo Teres. Her home and main focus, however, has been the band Lanugo which whom she has released four albums to date. A co-founder and the director of children’s choir Beznot, Foukalová also teaches at the Jaroslav Deyl Conservatory and New York University in Prague. Lanugo released its debut album in 2009 with Animal Music.


Martin Brunner

Martin Brunner – composer, pianist and keyboardist based in Prague, Czech Republic. He released five studio albums as a leader. Each of these albums consist original music written by Brunner and are very diverse musical projects – piano trio, septet with the string quartet, jazz-rock music or vocal songs with symphonic orchestra. Brunner also regularly composes classics chamber music. As a piano and keyboard player he collaborates with the most significant musicians at the Czech jazz scene. He ranks among distinctive composers of his generation and he is a member of “The Prague Six”, the informal group of composers who regularly write music for Czech award winning jazz big band Concept Art Orchestra.


Jodi Proznick

Jodi Proznick – three time Juno-nominated bassist, composer, producer and educator Jodi Proznick has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s finest jazz artists. She has won numerous National Jazz Awards, including Bassist of the Year in ’08 and ’09. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, was awarded the Acoustic Group of the Year and Album of the Year in ‘08 and the Galaxie Rising Star at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival in ‘04. Most recently, Jodi was awarded the Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and the Platinum Jubilee Art and Music Award from the Lieutenant Governer of British Columbia.



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Next Show: Pavol Hammel/ September 2025

Petr Kroutil & Ondra Kabrna

“bringing people together again”

Friday, May 27, 2022 at 8pm, The Revue Stage, Granville Island

Petr Kroutil. One of the most distinctive and most charismatic musicians in Europe. Petr studied saxophone and clarinet at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague. In addition, he studied Jazz Composition and Performance at the prestigious Berklee College Of Music in Boston. He studied bamboo flute at Kathmandu University in Nepal. Petr Kroutil’s biggest and most successful project so far is the big band Original Vintage Orchestra, where he currently acts as a bandleader, soloist (sax., Clar., Indian flute), singer and arranger.

In the US he accompanied the The Platters with Herb Reid, Marty Allen, Kenny James, Victor Mendoza’s Afro-Latin American Big Band, Joe Mareiny – a member of the Louis Armstrong All Stars Band. Kroutil also performed alongside with phenomenal drummer Dave Weckl, Chris Minh Doky and Dean Brown from Brecker Brothers. He holds the B.E.S.T. Award Of Berklee College Of Music.

He was the only Czech musician to play at the opening festival of the Olympics in London in 2012. For this purpose he made a music arrangement of the song Škoda lásky (Beer Barrel Polka) in swing style. The Trafalgar Square was attended by 25,000 people and the concert was broadcasted by the BBC.

Petr Kroutil and Chuck Wansley expanded to the US with a musical project in 2019 where, along with the Hollywood Dancers, they attracted more than 1,000 visitors to the famous Millennium Baltimore Hotel in Los Angeles (until 1943 the Academy Awards were taking place there).


Ondřej Kabrna. After finishing high school in1994 he joined the piano department of the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek. He graduated from the piano program in the year 2000. Since 1999, he has begun teaching at the Conservatory. In 2016 he further graduated from the piano program at the Academy of Music in Prague, where he studied with Karel Ruzicka and Jiri Slavik. His master thesis was Transformations of Jazz, which was influenced by the music of the Jewish author Erwin Schulhoff.

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