Czech Classical Cantors in Song
A Tribute to the Anniversaries of J. J. Ryba and J. I. Linek

Künstler

• Ensemble Serpens cantat
  ’The Ensemble Serpens cantat was founded in the autumn of 2008. After returning from an internship at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Alice Ondrejková began to focus on early music and to collaborate with harpsichordists from the class of Professor Barbara Maria Willi at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. From their initial performances at several concerts, the idea of founding their own musical group emerged. Soon, its line-up expanded to include Baroque flutes, viola da gamba, Baroque violin, theorbo, and Baroque guitar. The name is derived from a sacred cantata by Dieterich Buxtehude, which was performed at one of their first concerts. It is entitled “Sicut Moses exaltavit Serpentem in deserto – Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness”. Since 2008, the ensemble has given a great number of concert performances and has participated in numerous music festivals both in the Czech Republic and abroad.’
• Alice Ondrejková – soprano
  She studied History and later Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc. She first studied singing privately with Hana Štolfová-Bandová in Bratislava. During her studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, she completed a foreign internship in 2007 with Prof. Elizabeth Kovacs at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She further dedicated herself to studying Singing at the Academy of Early Music in Brno in the class of Irena Troupová and privately with Prof. Jarmila Hladíková. She has participated in singing courses with, for example, Eva Randová and Jiří Kotouč, and in Baroque chamber music seminars under the direction of Václav Luks and Marek Štryncl. She is the artistic director of the Baroque ensemble Ensemble Serpens cantat. In addition to Baroque music, she also devotes herself to the interpretation of contemporary music. She teaches at the Conservatory of the Evangelical Academy in Olomouc, the A. R. K. Music Private Primary Art School, and the Jaroslav Kvapil Primary Art School in Brno.
• Jan Ondrejka – tenor
  He studied singing at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, where he graduated in 2008 under the guidance of Prof. Jarmila Hladíková. He further expanded his education through masterclasses and workshops with, among others, Evelyn Tubb, Peter Dvorský, Jutta Schlegel, and Bernd Riedel. He is a laureate of the Leoš Janáček International Singing Competition in Brno. He has made guest appearances at the National Theatre Brno, the National Theatre Prague, the Moravian Theatre Olomouc, and others. He has portrayed numerous operatic roles on stage. He also focuses on the historically informed interpretation of 17th and 18th-century music and is a core member of the Baroque ensemble Ensemble Serpens cantat. He performs both in the Czech Republic and abroad, participates in music festivals, and has collaborated with many other ensembles, such as the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, Musica Florea Prague, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, Ensemble Damian, and Ensemble Inégal. He teaches at the Jaroslav Kvapil Primary Art School in Brno, where he works as a solo singing teacher and deputy headmaster.
• Martin Flašar – baroque violin
  He studied violin at the Primary Art School in Hronov with Josef Vlach and subsequently at the Brno Conservatory in the class of Jan Řezníček. He then pursued musicology at the Institute of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University. He currently holds the position of associate professor there. Concurrently, he completed a course in music composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts with Jaroslav Šťastný (alias Peter Graham). He continuously expanded his violin studies through solo and chamber music courses with Rudolf Šťastný, Bohumil Kotmel, Václav Hudeček, and Antonín Moravec. Since 2000, he has been dedicated to the interpretation of jazz and contemporary music with the Indigo Quartet. He studied Baroque violin briefly with Elen Machová and Jana Spáčilová, and later at early music courses with Catherine Mackintosh and Peter Zajíček. He has collaborated with the ensembles Capella Academica, Hofmusici Český Krumlov, Musica Figuralis, Ensemble Damian, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Cantus et Cordis, and Musica Poetica, and is a long-standing member of Ensemble Serpens cantat.
• Kamila Kubátová – harpsichord
  She is a graduate of organ performance in the class of Zdeněk Nováček at the Brno Conservatory and holds a master’s degree in harpsichord performance from the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, where she studied with Barbara Maria Willi. In 2010, she completed a study abroad programme at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in the class of Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot. She has attended classes with distinguished specialists in the field, such as Jacques Ogg, Sasha Zamler-Carhart, Corina Marti, and Patrick Ayrton. She further deepened her musical education through interpretation courses, including the Academie de Sablé in Prague, the Prachatice Summer School of Early Music, and Baroque chamber music courses with Václav Luks, Marek Štryncl, Jesper Christensen, and Miklós Spányi. Currently, she focuses mainly on chamber music and concert performance. In addition, she also teaches at the Primary Art School in Tišnov and at the Brno Conservatory. She is a permanent member of the ensembles Ensemble Serpens Cantat and Musica Poetica, and also collaborates with the ensembles Musica Minore, Melante’s Band, the Camerata Moravia of the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Ensemble Damian, and with the theatre companies Geisslers Hofcomoedianten and Tygr v tísni.

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