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The Czech organist, conductor and harmonium player, Adam Viktora, graduated from the Conservatory in Pilsen and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He further expanded his education by studying privately with Christoph Bossert and on master-classes such as Tagliavini, Erickssohn, Koimann and Martin Haselböck
In 2000, Adam Viktora founded Ensemble Inégal of which he is Artistic Director; he is also Artistic Director of and Prague Baroque Soloist. With both ensembles he realized numerous present-day premiere concerts and records of the European Baroque repertoire with focus on works by Czech Baroque composers. As such and with these two ensembles, he has become in recent years the most outspoken representative of the currently ongoing process to rediscover the oeuvre of Jan Dismas Zelenka, musical genius of the Bohemian Baroque. In 2007, he founded and organized the unique Czech Organ Festival project, of which he is Artistic Director.
Adam Viktora appears regularly at music festivals all over Europe, and his great interest in historical organs is accompanied by lectures and concert performances at international congresses. He also serves as an advisor on expert committees for the restoration of important historical organs and records for European radio and television channels. He is highly dedicated to historical organs and to efforts towards their conservation and promotion. He is one of the key figures in the process of the rediscovery of the music of the Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Since 1998, Adam Viktora has been teaching organ playing at the Conservatory in Pilsen and since 2007 he has also taught music theory at the Prague Conservatory. He is married to the Czech soprano Gabriela Eibenová. |
