Echoes of Sopranos in Leiser Berge

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• Anita Jirovská (CZ) – mezzo-soprano

  Anita Jirovská completed her opera singing studies at HAMU in Prague in the class of Helena Kaupová and at HEMU in Lausanne, Switzerland, under the tutelage of Hiroko Kawamichi. She attended vocal masterclasses with prominent figures such as Helmut Deutsch, Stuart Petterson, Carol Ysaac, John Fiore, Ludovic Tézier, Kateřina Kněžíková, and Vladimír Chmelo. She regularly collaborates with Markéta Cukrová and Helena Kaupová.

  She is a co-founder of Opera Studio Prague, which provides opportunities for young artists.

  In July 2013, she debuted as Mozart’s Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, presented by the Geneva Opera Studio at the Europa Musa summer opera festival in Samoëns, France. Her first role on Czech-Slovak soil was Santuzza in Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria rusticana at the State Theatre Košice. Other roles include, among others, Madame Cassin (Don Juan, G.-F. Leuenberger, world premiere), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro, W. A. Mozart), Kitchen Boy and at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen Second Wood Nymph (Rusalka, A. Dvořák). In 2016, she had the honour of participating in the world premiere of Enfants du Cristal (J. M. Curti) in Cernay, France, in the dual role of Lady of Water and Air. In the Baroque repertoire, she performed with the Musica Florea ensemble in Poland as Clelie in Muzio Scevola (Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini, George Frideric Handel). Her repertoire also includes the role of Anne Frank in the mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank by G. Frid, and others. She is currently preparing for the role of Charlotte (Werther, J. Massenet) at the State Theatre Košice. From her concert repertoire, she has performed, among others, the alto solo in Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Mozart’s Missa in C, Handel’s My song shall be away, Let God arise.

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• Karolína Cingrošová-Žmolíková (CZ) – soprano

  She studied at the Prague Conservatory, where her professor was mezzo-soprano Jiřina Přívratská, and then with tenor Zdeněk Šmukař at JAMU in Brno. Subsequently, she completed postgraduate studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she was led by Norwegian soprano Kjellaug Tesaker. Karolína is the winner of the Bohuslav Martinů song competition, received awards in the Dušek vocal competition, in the Olomouc vocal competition, and this year she brought home 2nd place from the Wiener Danubia talents international music competition, which took place in Vienna. She actively participated several times in vocal masterclasses with renowned singers Dagmar Pecková and Martina Janková, where she also had the opportunity to collaborate with pianists Ivo Kahánek and Gérard Wyss, and was also an active listener at courses in Vienna with the former soloist of the Vienna State Opera, Bojidar Nikolov. Karolína currently performs concerts both at home and abroad, in Austria, Germany or France, where she also lived for some time. As a soloist, she performs with ensembles such as the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mariánské Lázně, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Central Band of the Czech Army, or Barocco sempre giovane or the Rychnov Church Choir. She regularly collaborates with artists such as guitarist Lubomír Brabec, oboist Vilém Veverka, harpist Kateřina Englichová and harpsichordist Barbara Maria Willi. She has performed at festivals such as Dvořákova Nelahozeves, Tóny Chodovské tvrze, Smiřické svátky hudby, Jihočeské Nové Hrady, at the St. John’s Music Festival, Film Music Prague at the Rudolfinum in Prague, at Forum Karlín or at the Congress Centre in Prague. She performed at the Festival of Three Cathedrals, within which she sang in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna or in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Karolína is the dramaturge of the music festival Hudba z ráje.

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• Kateřina Málková (CZ) – organ

  Kateřina Málková was born in Znojmo. She received her first musical education at the primary art school in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. In 1998, she enrolled at the Brno Conservatory in the class of Prof. Petr Kolař, where she completed her studies in 2004 with a final concert at the Besední dům. In the same year, she was accepted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Doc. Jaroslav Tůma. She successfully completed her bachelor’s concert with him, and in the following year, 2008, she went for a one-year study abroad internship to Germany at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, where she studied with Prof. Arvid Gast. Here she performed at several concerts, e.g., in St. Jakobikirche, in the Cathedral, etc. In 2010, she completed her master’s degree with a concert at HAMU as part of the "The Best" concert series with the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, performing F. Poulenc’s organ concerto. Within the school, she performed, for example, at the Minifestival Kabeláče and Messiaena, at concerts of contemporary music of the composition department, etc.

  During her studies, she participated in a number of masterclasses with prominent organ personalities, such as Marie Claire Alain, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Andreas Schröder, Jon Laukvik, Martin Sander, Martin Schmeding, Slawomir Kaminski, Matthias Maierhoffer, Pier Damiano Peretti and Gustav Leonhardt.

  Currently, she focuses on solo performance, having performed at festivals such as the Eduard Nápravník International Music Festival, Podblanický podzim, Štětský varhanní podzim, Suk’s musical Štiřín, etc. In Slovakia, she played on the occasion of the European organ festival in Kremnica. Kateřina Málková has performed in Germany, Latvia and Lithuania. She collaborates with various Czech orchestras including the CNSO Czech National Symphony Orchestra, North Bohemian Philharmonic, Atlantis Orchestra, Collegium magistrorum Mikulov, and Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic. She is very actively involved in music education for children, teaching piano and organ. With violinist Alexej Aslamas, she developed music lectures for primary and art schools, focusing on classical music and modern contemporary music. She always strives to promote organ music, which is why she organised a series of concerts in the castle chapel in Lednice na Moravě in the summers of 2016 and 2017, and since 2016 she regularly organises Advent and Epiphany concerts with a choir and orchestra in South Moravia. In 2020, she performed as a soloist with the Sedunum String Orchestra at concerts in Switzerland, and is the founder of the newly established international music festival "Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region" in South Moravia and Lower Austria.

  www.katerinamalkova.com

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