Dušan Dobiaš

Today, again, the award ceremony is under surveillance. This time the crew of Czech TV comes with us. We’re standing downtown. Kubrej at the gate of one exceptional music teacher and promoter.

Dušan Dobias has spent years collecting and playing contemporary musical instruments. She works in musical band Musica Poetica, which is devoted to the interpretation of Renaissance and Baroque music. With his students he created the Fistulatoris Consort music group and added Irish and Scottish music in the Drowsy Maggie group. As Master Dobias says, music makes no sense to box. You can only divide into good and bad.

I’ve been doing music since I was 13 and I’ve gone through all sorts of genres from rokenrol to country music to jazz. After the military, I applied to the conservatory because I wanted to learn more about the music.

Finally, he ended up with old music, and he instills in children his love for it. He collects replicas of old musical instruments to convey to his students an authentic gaming experience.

I’m trying to sell information and knowledge about the music, because I’m not gonna be here forever, he said. He added that he and his children play concerts for the city and also at the culture centre in Sihot, where he teaches.

We were lucky enough, and the householder invited us to his attic and showed us a collection of his contemporary instruments. He performed a baroque lute and one of the many flaps he had exhibited in the collection.

Seeing and hearing period tools was one of the most extraordinary experiences we had during the Trenčin project. Thank you, Master!