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The Czech tenor, Vojtěch Semerád, is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University in Prague (choirmastering) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (baroque violin with Francois Fernandez). He is a finalist of the Telemann-Wettbewerb International Competition in Magdeburg. He has been trained as a singer since 2010 throughout private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Poppy Holden) and master-classes.
As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants (Director: William Christie), Ensemble Correspondances, Vox Luminis (Director: Lionel Meunier) or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung Histoires Sacrés by M.A. Charpentier for Early Music festival Utrecht in 2021, the role of Acis in George Frideric Handel's Acis and Galathea for TAM Regensburg, the role of Atys in the opera of the same name by J.B. Lully and the role of Thélème by J.B. Lully in 2022...
Vojtěch Semerád is the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Mariana (since December 2007), with which he performs forgotten works of vocal polyphony of Renaissance and Baroque era. Today the ensemble is regularly invited to the prestigious festivals a.o. Oude Muziek Utrecht, Laus Polyphoniae Antwerpen, MAfestival Brugge, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Prague Spring and Concentus Moraviae. He has recorded for Deutsche Gramophon, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi and Supraphon, in total more than 30 recordings, and also regularly records for Czech Radio.
Vojtěch Semerád is also a researcher, focusing on the discovery of 15th, 16th and 17th century vocal music in Central Europe. He currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic. |
