Jana Semerádová

Flute player Jana Semerádová graduated from the Prague Conservatory, Theory and Conducting Practice of Early Music at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is a laureate of international competitions in Magdeburg and Munich.

Jana Semerádová is the artistic director of the Collegium Marianum ensemble, dramaturg of the Baroque Evenings concert series and the international music festival Summer Festival of Old Music em>. He is intensively engaged in research activities in Czech and foreign archives and the study of baroque gestures, declamation and dance. He has a number of CDs to his credit, not only joint with Collegio Mariano, but also two profile CDs Solo for the King and Chaconne for the Princess. Jana Semerádová performs on major European stages (Bachfest Leipzig, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Center de musique baroque de Versailles, Konzerthaus in Vienna and Berlin, Vratislavia Cantans, Palau de la Música Catalana, etc.), as a soloist she collaborated with M. Kožena, S. Azzolini, A. Bernardini and E. Onofri and performs regularly with the ensembles of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il suonar parlante, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna and Ars Antiqua Austria.

In 2015 she received docent in the field of flute at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2019, she received the award of the Prague Group of the Society for Science and Art, and a year later, together with Erich Traxler, she was nominated for the Angel Award of the Czech Music Academy for the CD Chaconne pro princeznu.