Education
Pospíšil studied voice at the Prague Conservatory from 1981 to 1986.
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Michael Pospisil
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He took master classes with Marius van Altena and Stephen Stubbs, among others He has collaborated internationally with ensembles such as Musica Antiqua Praha, Capella Regia Musicalis, Bornus Consort and the Tölzer Knabenchor. In 1993, he founded the ensemble Ritornello.
The chamber group concentrates on music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
A core group consists of three musicians who sing and are able to play several instruments. They perform music which they study scholarly from manuscripts and early publications.
Their instruments are historic or faithful reproductions, including lute, theorbo, Baroque guitar and violins, hurdy-gurdy, Renaissance bagpipes and trombones, organ, dulcian, flutes, viola da braccio and viola da gamba. The ensemble performs sacred music as well as traditional songs and music for dance and banquet.
lieutenant has been described as "one of the jewels of Czechoslovakian musical history".
In 1998, Pospíšil recorded Jakub January Ryba"s Česká mše vánoční (Czechoslovakian Christmas Mass) with Gabriela Eibenová, Magdalena Kožená, Jaroslav Březina, the Calmus Ensemble and the Capella Regia Musicalis. In 2004, he sang the bass part in Bach"s Christmas Oratorio in Saint Martin, Idstein, with Katia Plaschka, Franz Vitzthum and the orchestra Antichi Strumenti.
