Czech tenor Štefan Margita is represented by the Camerata Agency within the Czech Republic and Slovakia. During his long international career, he has performed on almost all major European and overseas opera stages such as Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, São Paulo, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Amsterdam, and hosted at prestigious festivals in Salzburg, Ludwigsburg, Bregenz and Edinburgh. Štefan Margita also devotes extensive concert activities.
A conductor, composer and pianist Jan Kučera is one of the most versatile Czech artists. As a composer he intervenes in many areas, he composes symphonic, chamber, song and scenic compositions. As a conductor he cooperates with leading Czech orchestras, with whom he performed or directed more than one hundred symphonic pieces. He is an author of comic opera Red Mary and Ballet Three Musketeers and The Taming of a Wicked Woman. In 2015-2021 he was engaged as the chief conductor of the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra.
Olga Arribas Quintana (nee Šroubková) is an absolvent of Prague Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. She is a laureate of several international competitions (Rodolfo Lipizer Prize, International Competition Prague Spring, Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition etc.).
Roman Hoza finished his studies at the Janáček's Academy of Performing Arts Brno and an internship at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He was a member of Deutsche Oper am Rhein Opera Studio in Düsseldorf / Duisburg, where he makes his guest performance also in the season 2016/2017. In 2019, Roman Hoza returned to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, again as Rossini's Dandini, and since the 2020/21 season he has been a permanent soloist in the opera.
Jan Čmejla is an absolvent of the Prague Conservatory and currently studies at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. He is a winner of many prestigious competitions in the Czech Republic and abroad including Concours International de Piano 2022. Thanks to his competitive successes he had an opportunity to perform with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Jan has made his USA recital debut in Washington D.C. in the prestigious Kennedy Center. He gave concerts also in New York, Chicago and Ottawa.
Tenor Daniel Matoušek is an absolvent of the EMA masterclass and the Carangelo Belcanto Academy in Cornuda. He is a guest at the National Theater in Brno, Opernhaus Magdeburg, DJKT in Pilsen or the Moravian Theater in Olomouc. He participated in the iSING festival in China, where he was selected from 2,500 singers from all over the world to participate in 2 performances, 6 concerts and 2 television recordings under the baton of the world conductors. As of the 2022/23 season, Daniel is a member of the National Theatre in Prague.
The mezzo-soprano Štěpánka Pučálková is an absolvent of the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She performed in number of productions at the Landestheater in Salzburg and performed also at the Salzburger Festspiele. Štěpánka is engaged in Semper Oper Dresden and performs as a guest in the Prague State Opera, the National Theatre Prague, the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava as well as in the Landestheater Bregenz. She is a laureate of the "Best Female Voice Award" from the International Singing Competition Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini in Marseille, France.
Markéta Cukrová belongs to the most sought-for Czech soloists in the field of historically informed music. She gives guest performances in the National Theatre in Prague, National Theatre in Brno and Košice State Theatre. She regularly cooperates with Italian ensemble Mala Punica and Belgian Club Mediéval, in the Czech Republic she regularly performs with Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Czech Ensemble Baroque or Ensemble 18+. In recent years, she has been short-listed two times for the Opera Plus Award for the Best Opera Singer of the season and nominated for two major opera awards of the Czech Republic (Thalia, Classic Prague Awards).
Richard Samek is a permanent cast member of the Staatsoperette Dresden and regularly performs in the National Theatre in Prague, J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, National Theatre Brno, National Moravia-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava, Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Semperoper Dresden, Theater Magdeburg and Theater und Philharmonie Essen.
Karel Vrtiška completed his master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg and a master's degree at the Academy of Performing Arts in the class of Professor M. Kasík. He received the title of laureate of the International Smetana Competition in Pilsen in 2014. He currently works at the Department of Piano Co-operation at HAMU and is engaged in solo concert activities in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Vojtěch Spurný is a prominent Czech conductor, piano and harpsichord player and music instructor. His conducting career has seen him collaborate with the prestigious opera scenes and orchestras; he also actively performs on early keyboard instruments. At present, he is a chief conductor of the Silesian Theater in Opava and a permanent guest conductor of the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kateřina Kněžíková is a permanent cast member of the National Theatre in Prague. She is a laureate of the Classic Prague Awards 2018 for the best chamber performance and Thalia Award 2019 for extraordinary stage performance in the opera Julietta (B. Martinů) on the boards of the National Moravian-Silesian Theater. In 2021, she released her first solo album "Phidylé" for Supraphon label, which was named as Editor's Choice and The Best Classical Albums of 2021 in Gramophone Magazine. In 2022, album "Phidylé" won the prestigious BBC Magazine Music Awards in the "Vocal" category.
Svatopluk Sem is a permanent guest of the National Theatre in Prague, J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, National Theatre Brno, National Moravia-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava and South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice. He is a laureate of the Thalia Award for the Best Male Opera Performance in 2017.
Adam Plachetka is represented by the Camerata Agency within the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Beeing one of the most succesful bass-baritones of today, his engagements include appearances at the Salzburger Festspiele, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Lyric Opera of Chicago or Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Eduard Šístek studied at the Prague Conservatoire and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In the academic year 2015/16 he successfully passed the internship at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Since 2011 he has been a permanent member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a laureate of the Leoš Janáček international competition 2013, Contests of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation and the International Music Competition Beethoven's Hradec 2018.
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