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Jaroslav Tůma
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Jaroslav Tůma (born 1956) is the Czech organist, harpsichordist, clavichord and pianoforte player, Jaroslav Tůma, graduated from the Prague conservatoire (from the class of Professor Jaroslav Vodrážka) and from the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Professor Milan Šlechta organ, and Professor Zuzana Růžičková harpsichord). He won first prizes in organ improvisation competitions in Nuremberg in 1980 and in the Dutch city of Haarlem in 1986. He is also the laureate of a number of organ interpretation competitions, 1978 Linz, 1979 the Prague Spring competition, 1980 the Leipzig Bach competition, and others. Jaroslav Tůma's many concert activities have extended to most European countries including Iceland; he repeatedly toured the USA and Japan, performed in Singapore and Mongolia. From 1990 to 1993, he performed in Prague the complete works for the organ of Johann Sebastian Bach, divided into twenty-one concert programmes. He also repeatedly presented Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier as a whole collection on the clavichord. For the 250th anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach in 2000, he prepared the interpretation of, inter alia, the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), which he performed at the Prague Spring festival, and also in Stralsund and at the Haydn Festival in Dolní Lukavice. Other activities include concerts played on historic instruments or their replicas - besides the organ, also the pianoforte (Paul McNulty), harpsichord (František Vyhnálek) and p
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J.S.BACH: Orgel-Büchlein BWV 599-644
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Renaissance Organ Music
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Great Organ Works
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Janáček, Novák: Complete Organ Works (Historic Organs of Bohemia)
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Magnificat (Horní Police)
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Jaroslav Tůma Moje Vlast (Organ Improvisations on Bedřich Smetana's My Country)
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Vánoční album hvězd - Čas svátečních melodií
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Pachelbel: Historic Organs of Bohemia IV
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Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I
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Bach: Organ Mass
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Pachelbel & Froberger: Clavichord Compositions
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Historic Organs of Bohemia, Rychnov 1843