Monastic Composers

Künstler

• Kateřina Málková – organ, positive organ
  She is the founder of the Opus Organum association, which strives to promote and in the future restore organs, primarily from the Znojmo organ school. This activity is followed by the creation of the Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region festival, of which she is the director and dramaturge. The aim of the festival is to musically connect the Czech and Austrian border regions, with the purpose of the future restoration of valuable instruments by the organ builder Josef Silberbauer. Kateřina Málková is a promoter of mainly Baroque works, but also of contemporary composers. She always tries to find new places with lesser-known instruments and is dedicated to their promotion to the general public. She organises a number of concerts both in South Moravia and in Lower Austria. In addition to her solo concert career, she is also active as a teacher. She has performed at festivals in Austria, Slovakia, Switzerland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, and other countries. She collaborates with orchestras such as the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Atlantis Orchestra, the Collegium Magistrorum, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, the Sedunum String Orchestra, and others. She studied organ at the Brno Conservatory in the class of Petr Kolař, and then continued with a master’s degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Jaroslav Tůma. During her studies, she completed a one-year foreign internship in Lübeck, Germany, with Arvid Gast.
• Marie Hasoňová – violin
  Marie Hasoňová (violin) is one of the remarkable young talents on the Czech and international music scene. Her domain is an openness to all music from the Renaissance to the present day, and its most natural, sincere, and sensitive interpretation. She is a successful interpreter of classical music in particular, but thanks to her Moravian roots, she also has a warm relationship with folk music, which is a great passion and inspiration for her. In addition to solo performance, she is actively involved in chamber and symphonic music. She has many concerts to her credit, both in her home country and abroad (USA, Canada, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Great Britain, Switzerland, and most EU countries). As a soloist, she has collaborated with a number of renowned orchestras – the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia (PKF), and the Hradec Králové Philharmonic. She has had the opportunity to perform at major music festivals such as the Prague Spring, the Lucerne Festival, and the Dvořák’s Prague Festival. Since 2023, she has been an active member of the Dvořák Piano Quartet, which is one of the leading Czech chamber ensembles. Since 2023, she has collaborated with the talented Italian pianist Tommaso Carlini, with whom she forms a violin and piano duo. Since 2024, she has been collaborating with Michael Foršt and Matouš Hasoň (Ševčík Quartet), with whom she forms the string trio Terchitko di Praga. In 2020, she formed a duo with violist Petr Holman (Zemlinsky Quartet), with whom she collaborated on the CD “VIOLIN-VIOLA DIALOGUES” under the direction of Jiří Gemrot at Studio Martínek, which focuses on most of the works for this instrumentation by Bohuslav Martinů. Marie was also a member of the Quasi Trio (Kateřina Ochmanová, Judita Škodová) for several years. Her most significant achievements include winning the main prize awarded by the Václav Hudeček Academy, with whom she continues to work closely. She is also a graduate of the two-year Orchestral Academy of the Czech Philharmonic. Marie is the holder of many prizes from national and international competitions such as Talents for Europe in Dolný Kubín (Slovakia), the ‘Coffee Mask’ International Music Video (Germany), and the Telemann Violin Competition in Poznań (Poland). In addition to solo, chamber, and orchestral music, she is also invited to collaborate on more diverse projects that go beyond standard classical concerts. In 2024, she began a collaboration with the Prague Chamber Ballet and also worked as a “stunt double” for the main character in the film “Dance with the Bear” (2025), directed by Jitka Rudolfová. She is regularly invited to collaborate with the Unique Orchestra and the Unique Quartet. Marie plays an instrument by the French luthier Jean-François Aldric, which was kindly loaned to her by Jan Kamír and his family.
• Josef Kovačič – bass
  A graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under the expert guidance of Martin Bárta, and of the Prague Conservatory from the class of Jiří Kubík. In 2015, he made his professional operatic debut in the role of Hermann (J. Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann) at the prestigious music festival in Bregenz, Austria. In the same year, he began to establish collaborations with Czech opera houses. He is a regular guest at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, where he has portrayed roles such as Kajetán (Z. Fibich, The Bride of Messina), Seneca (C. Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea), Kecal (B. Smetana, The Bartered Bride), and the Apostle Peter (S. Bodorová, Quo Vadis). At the Silesian Theatre in Opava, he has appeared in roles such as the Eremit (C. M. von Weber, Der Freischütz) and Pistola (G. Verdi, Falstaff). At the North Bohemian Theatre, he performed as Sarastro (W. A. Mozart, The Magic Flute), and at the South Bohemian Theatre, he has taken on roles including the Gaoler Beneš (B. Smetana, Dalibor) and Prince Gremin (P. I. Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin). For two seasons, he was also a permanent member of the opera ensemble at the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec, where he portrayed roles such as the Parson and the Badger (L. Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen), Masetto (W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni), and Lodovico (G. Verdi, Otello). Since 2020, he has also been a guest at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava as Matouš (B. Smetana, The Kiss) and the underworld god Pluto (C. Monteverdi, Il ballo delle ingrate). In 2022, he performed at the international opera festival in Wexford, Ireland, portraying the character of the knight Ubaldo in a successful production of Dvořák’s Armida. In addition to theatre, he is also involved in concert activities and collaborates with renowned musical bodies such as Collegium 1704, the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Musica Florea, the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, and the NeoKlasik orchestra. In sacred music programmes, he regularly performs with the concert organist Kateřina Málková.
• Jiří Bartoloměj Sturz – spoken word, vocals
  Jiří Bartoloměj Sturz studied history at the Technical University of Liberec, and has also studied musicology and history at the faculties of arts in Olomouc, Brno, and Prague. Since 2006, he has been a member of the opera chorus of the Šalda Theatre in Liberec, and since 2016, he has also been involved in the management of the opera. He publishes both scholarly and popular works, mainly on musical topics, early general history, and the history and art of the early modern period. He is also active in literary, compositional, and music-critical activities. He also teaches in the fields of history and music. He has a rich concert and lecture schedule. As a composer and singer, he focuses primarily on the tradition of historical Czech song. Within his engagement in the opera ensemble, he is mainly involved in lecturing, and on stage, he enjoys portraying various characters and genre figures in a distinctive manner.

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