MANAKOVA

Name and Surname: Katerina Manakova
Academic Degrees: MMus.
Year and Place of Birth: 1992 Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Institutional Affiliation: Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (Brno, Czech Republic)

Curriculum Vitae: She completed a Master's degree in lute performance at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, the Netherlands. Her thesis and subsequent one-year internship at a Belgian research centre focused on intabulations of sacred vocal polyphonic music for the vihuela de mano in 16th-century Spain. Since 2024, she has been teaching lute performance, practical counterpoint and historical ornamentation at the Department of Historical and Organ Performance at Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno. She is currently a doctoral student at JAMU and KU Leuven in Belgium, where she is analysing Cavalcanti's lute collection (Ms II 275, KBR). In collaboration with Monumenta Artis Musicae Sloveniae, she is participating in an editorial and research project on Giacomo Gorzanis and his connections to Central Europe. Through her performance practice, mainly with the ensemble Ramillete de Tonos, of which she is the artistic director, she is also deepening her research into the connection between voice and lute.

Relevant Bibliography:
1. Proces vihuelové intabulace podle Juana Bermudy. Převod vokálních skladeb do strunných nástrojů dle starých španělských mistrů [The process of vihuela intavolation according to Juan Bermudo. Transcription of vocal compositions for string instruments according to the old Spanish masters]. In: Opus Musicum 55 (2023), No. 4, p. 32-40.
2. De vihuela laten zingen. In: Tabulatuur 128 (2024), p. 5-14.
3. The Process of Vihuela Intabulation of Sacred Music in 16th-century Spain. MMus. thesis, Royal Conservatoire, 2023 Den Haag.