dr hab. Jana Semerádová – flet traverso
The transverse flute player Jana Semerádová is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University (Theory and Practice of Early Music), and the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is a laureate of the Magdeburg and Munich international competitions.
Jana Semerádová is the artistic director of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and programming director of the concert cycle Baroque Soirées and the international music festival Summer Festivities of Early Music.
She is engaged in intensive research both at home and abroad and in the study of Baroque gesture, declamation, and dance. Many of her unique programs are built on the interconnection of music and drama.
Jana Semerádová has made a number of recordings; her CDs with Collegium Marianum have appeared as part of the successful series „Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague“ on the Supraphon label. On Supraphon she has also recorded her feature CD „Solo for the King“ and „Chaconne for the Princess“.
Jana Semerádová has performed on prominent European concert platforms (eg. Bachfest Leipzig, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival, Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Festival de Sablé, Pražské jaro, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Konzerthaus ve Vídni a Berlíně, Vratislavia Cantans, and Palau de Música Barcelona). As a soloist she has collaborated with eminent artists such as Magdalena Kožená, Sergio Azzolini, Alfredo Bernardini, and Enrico Onofri, and she regularly appears with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il suonar parlante, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa, Orkiestra Historyczna, and Ars Antiqua Austria.
In 2015 she received her habilitation degree as an associate professor of flute from the Faculty of Music and Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2024 she has been named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Goverment.