Helena Hozová Galatea

The soprano Helena Hozová was born in Polička. She studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatory, the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, and at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden with Christiane Hossfeld and Ludger Rémy. She also attended a number of masterclasses with prominent personalities of the opera world, such as Tom Krause, Federica Proietti, Gabriela Beňačková, and Josef Protschka.
 
The singer has collaborated with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra Zlín and the ensembles Les Gouts Réunis (Luxembourg), Collegium Marianum, Barocco Sempre Giovane, and Ensemble Inégal. Nowadays, Helena Hozová cooperates mainly with the Collegium 1704 ensemble focusing on the interpretation of early music.
 
She has performed solo parts at festivals such as Salzburger Festspiele, Chopin i jego Europa in Warsaw, Smetana’s Litomyšl, the St Wenceslas Music Festival and in concert venues such as the Theater an der Wien, the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow, or Centro Nacional de Difusón Musical in Madrid among many more. Helena Hozová sang the role of Nicandro in Antonio Vivaldi’s opera Arsilda at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, staged by David Radok under the baton of Václav Luks, and also appeared at the Opéra de Lille, the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, the Théâtre de Caen, and the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava.
 
In 2010, together with guitarist Irena Sedláčková, she founded Duo Nana, which focuses on Czech contemporary music. In the last few years, the singer has recorded Pavel Haas’s Seven Songs in Folk Tone and Luboš Sluka’s song cycles Singing to Children and Flower Language for Czech Radio, and Karel Růžička’s Celebration Jazz Mass for Czech TV. In 2019, she toured in Portugal, Brazil, and Peru with song cycles by Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Manuel de Falla, and Joaquín Rodrigo.