Barbora Kabátková soprano, artistic director

Barbora Kabátková has dedicated herself to music since early childhood. After completing grammar school, she studied Choir Conducting of Church Music at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague and Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, where she is now researching Gregorian chant in her doctoral studies.
 
The musical interpretation master classes she attended under the guidance of Marius van Altena, Peter Kooij, Julie Hassler, Howard Crook, and Joel Frederiksen inspired her interest in early music, which has become the core of her musical activities. She plays medieval harps and psaltery and is the artistic director and dramaturg of the highly acclaimed all-female Tiburtina Ensemble.
 
Barbora Kabátková regularly performs in prestigious Czech and international concert venues, collaborating with ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent, Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Cappella Mariana, Concerto Melante, Accentus Austria, La Grande Chapelle, Concerto Palatino, Il Gardellino, and the Ricercar Consort.
 
She also takes part in contemporary music projects (Berg Orchestra, Ostravská banda) as well as cross-genre projects – in 2014 she was invited to participate in the production of the latest album by the Eben Brothers, “Čas holin”.