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The Czech soprano, Gabriela Eibenová, studied at the Prague Conservatory and then on a scholarship at a summer academy of the Wellington College, and with Julie Kennard at the Royal Academy of Music.
Gabriela Eibenová sings in opera and concert, specialising in music of the Baroque and classical period in historically informed performance. Over the years of her career, she has become a sought-after soprano in this field. She has performed alongside renowned artists such as Eduardo Lopez Banzo, Ian Partridge, Simon Standage, Evelyn Tubb, Magdalena Kožená, Peter Kooij, etc. She has created several title roles in Baroque operas in her country and abroad: J. Blow's Venus and Adonis, J.M. Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus, C. Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (a production that became the performance of the year in the Czech Republic in 1998 and won the Alfréd Radok Award.) In 1995, she sang the part of the sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Purcell Festival in Cologne. She recorded in 1998 Jakub Jan Ryba's Česká mše vánoční (Czech Christmas Mass) with Magdalena Kožená, Jaroslav Březina and Michael Pospíšil, the Calmus Ensemble Leipzig and the Capella Regia Musicalis. In 1999, she sang in Rossini's Petite messe solennelle with the Cologne-based Collegium Cantorum Köln, recorded live. In 2000, together with Adam Viktora, she founded the Ensemble Inégal and later the ensemble Prague Baroque Soloists. She performs at prestigious music festivals throughout Europe (Prague Spring, Bruges, Utrecht, London), has sung in Israel and Japan. She has guested with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague State Opera or the J.K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. In 2013, she flew in from Prague to fill in for a local soprano who had to cancel for health reasons. She sang the soprano part of J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 in St. Martin, Idstein on September 29, 2013, with the Barockorchester L'arpa festante, David Erler, Georg Poplutz and Andreas Pruys. She has sung for Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama and many high-ranking European statesmen.
Gabriela Eibenová records for radio and television, and has more than 30 CD recordings to her credit. She is a participant in Matteo Messori's project Heinrich Schütz Edition, a recording of the complete works by Heinrich Schütz with the Cappella Augustana. With the Ensemble Inégal, she has recorded works by Jan Dismas Zelenka, in 2011 his Missa Omnium Sanctorum, with Kai Wessel, Jan Kobow, and basses Marián Krejčík and Tomáš Král. A 2012 recording of his Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis and Gaude laetare with the Ensemble Inégal and the Prague Baroque Soloists, conducted by Adam Viktora, with soloists Carlos Mena, Makoto Sakurada and Lisandro Abadie, was critically acclaimed. In 2014, a premiere recording of his Missa Paschalis, ZWV 7, and Litaniae omnium Sactorum was performed with the same ensembles and soloists Terry Wey, Cyril Auvity and Marián Krejčík.
Gabriela Eibenová has also collaborated with the ensembles such as Prague Philharmonia, Südwestfunk Orchester Freiburg, Prague Madrigalists, Musica Florea, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704 (Director: Václav Luks), Arte Dei Suonatori and Orquesta Barroca de Sevigla.
The organist and conductor Adam Viktora is her husband. |
