Jan Škrdlík

JAN ŠKRDLÍK – who is Jan Škrdlík?

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So I thought — if anyone
wants to know something more professional about me,
they can visit the agency’s website:
CELLO.CZ
or perhaps Wikipedia:
cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Škrdlík

Here, I want to speak through poetry (on the right) →
but truly — everywhere you look ↓ ☺ → →
you’ll find something ↑ → ↓ ☺ ☮

More info – CELLO.CZ/MANIFEST
or – THE PUBLISHING HOUSE – MUSICAL FORGE

CONTACT: +420 603 520 227 // skrdlik@cello.cz

↑ Richard Wilson recites my poem:
“SANZ BRIZ AND SMILE IN THE ABYSS OF TIME”
about the Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, who saved 5,200 Jews in Budapest in 1944. – The poem is my first work in the style of new suprarealism.

I WAS BORN

I was born
for a poem
we always
longed to hear,

when trees
slipped beetles
beneath our cortex
and told us the world
was wider
than we believed.

Curled up on my bed
I played softly,
while almond trees
sent sharp fragrance
across my dreams,

and the poem
began to root
deep within me,

as the trees,
so full of knowing,
lured me
with their branches.

but that’s
a long story,
my friend —

so stop by,
I’ll tell you with music
or over good coffee

in quiet glances...

Foto Pálava

With Jana Rosie – hot-air balloon flight over Pálava, August 15, 2021 (Klentnice in the background):

Polibek

← Bathing within the Light

Jan Škrdlík:
musical reflection/improvisation
on a painting by Jana Rosie Dvořáková:
“In Connection.
The Man and His Cello” → →

Jan Škrdlík – cello/improvisation
Jana Rosie Dvořáková – movement performance
and mobile phone
Rabí Castle, 22/6/2019

I invite you to journey through my poems ↓

Jan Škrdlík – Variations on Tzara • The Son-of-a-Narcissist-Mother’s Guide Book
← Samples from the texts

Based on an imaginary journey from planet Earth to the "Seventh Heaven," I reunite with five women who most profoundly influenced my past life, and then with my current partner, Jana Rosia. Yet, I need to penetrate even higher realms to finally connect with my Essential Self...
The title "Variations on Tzara" arose from the fact that each of her poems begins with a quotation of a verse from the poetry collection "L’Homme approximatif," thus paying tribute to its author, Tristan Tzara.

The subtitle of this verse novel refers to my experience with a narcissistic mother. Unconsciously, I carried her as a pattern for choosing later life partners in adulthood. It took a long journey to break free from this toxic vicious circle…
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2016 – 2024

The work crystallized starting in 2016. However, I wrote the vast majority of the poems during the first three months of 2020. The creation of the English version by the translation team of Thomas McComb between 2020 and 2024 inspired me to make further changes and additions, so the presented version of the novel dates to 2024.
On the right: Richard Wilson recites selected poems from Variations on Tzara, accompanied by the music of Ahmend Adel →
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To order VARIATIONS ON TZARA as a PDF or paperback, please visit: ⇝ cello.cz/order

...now also in Spanish ↓
	← Excerpts from the Spanish version of “Variations on Tzara”. This version began to take shape immediately after the Czech edition was completed. However, it is not a translation of the “original Czech.” The collection lives its own life in this new language. Some of the verses differ from the Czech version—just as the living Spanish language naturally leads them to. I can afford this freedom. After all, I’m the author. :-) In fact, since 2016, when the foundations of this work were laid, I’ve written some poems in both languages, although most of the collection was originally recorded in Czech. The creation of the English version by Thomas McComb’s translation team between 2020 and 2024 inspired me to revise and expand the Spanish version as well, so the version presented here dates from 2024. --------------------------------------- To order VARIATIONS ON TZARA as a PDF or printed booklet, visit: ⇝ cello.cz/objednat
2016 – 2024

...poems, micro-stories, essays, the libretto for the chamber micro-opera Postal Ballad, and more... ↓

2013 – 2015	2021	2022	2022	2023

	drawings ↓ and literary studies ↓ (in Spanish)

2024	1986 – 2007	2008 – 2014

...my recordings ↓ and CDs →

L. VAN BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in A major, Op. 69, No. 3
Allegro, ma non tanto:

Scherzo. Allegro molto:

Adagio cantabile. Allegro vivace:

Jan Škrdlík – cello, Petra Besa – piano
Shire Hall, Hereford, UK, 14/11/2015, Live

Jan Škrdlík Plays J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites

IMPRINT . /// TITLE: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites 1–6 • PUBLISHER: Art Petra Production © 2013 tel.: +420 603 520 227 • PERFORMER: Jan Škrdlík – cello • SOUND ENGINEER: Jürgen Costede • MASTERING: Petr Řezníček • TEXT: Jan Škrdlík • ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Sára Longová • GERMAN TRANSLATION: Štěpán Odstrčil • COVER DESIGN: Jan Škrdlík • RECORDED AT: Church of Bursfelde Abbey, Germany (Suites No. 2–6); Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Vranov near Brno (Suite No. 1)

HAYDEN WAYNE Dances for Cello and Piano
Reggae Animato:

Moderato:

Vivace:

Jan Škrdlík – cello, Petra Besa – piano
Convent of the Brothers of Mercy, Brno, 2–3/12/2004

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ Cello Sonata No. 2, H. 340
Poco andante. Moderato:

Andante:

Allegro ma non Presto:

Jan Škrdlík – cello, Petra Besa – piano
Shire Hall, Hereford, UK, 12/11/2016, Live

JAN ŠKRDLÍK – who is Jan Škrdlík?

With Jana Rosie – hot-air balloon flight over Pálava, August 15, 2021 (Klentnice in the background):

← Bathing within the Light

I invite you to journey through my poems ↓

Jan Škrdlík – Variations on Tzara • The Son-of-a-Narcissist-Mother’s Guide Book← Samples from the texts

...now also in Spanish ↓

...poems, micro-stories, essays, the libretto for the chamber micro-opera Postal Ballad, and more... ↓

drawings ↓ and literary studies ↓ (in Spanish)

...my recordings ↓ and CDs →

Jan Škrdlík Plays J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites

Jan Škrdlík – Variations on Tzara • The Son-of-a-Narcissist-Mother’s Guide Book
← Samples from the texts