Vojtěch Jouza

Vojtěch Jouza is a Czech conductor and wind instrument player (horn, oboe). His interest in early music and chamber music led him to the idea of ​​founding the Prague Baroque Ensemble, which has been active since 1982 until today. V. Jouza works here as an oboist, artistic director and occasionally also as a conductor. As part of his other artistic activities, Vojtěch Jouza devotes himself intensively to choirmastering - in 1995 he founded the chamber choir En Arché in Prague, where he works as choirmaster and conductor. In 2009, he also took over leadership of the Pilsen Choir Czech Song.

V. So far, Jouza has had the opportunity as a conductor to collaborate with leading Czech, or with Slovak orchestras and choirs – with the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the Košice State Philharmonic, the Prague Chamber Choir, the Kühn Mixed Choir and many philharmonics.

With the Berg Chamber Orchestra he performed the operas of Bohuslav Martinů Veselohra na mosto and Marriage. As a co-creator and above all a conductor, in recent seasons he has participated in the successful educational programs of the Czech Philharmonic called Penguins in the Rudolfinum.