Ondřej Holub Damon
Ondřej Holub was a member of the Kühn Children’s Choir and the Pueri Gaudentes Boys’ Choir in his early youth, thanks to which he became a child soloist at the Prague State Opera in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. He first studied classical singing privately with Lenka Pištěcká, then at the Prague Conservatory with Valentin Prolat, and later developed his singing skills with Jiří Kotouč.
Since 2019, he has been collaborating with the Baroque orchestra Collegium 1704, performing both as a soloist and as an ensemble singer, for example, singing the tenor part in Bach’s Mass in B minor in Vézelay, France. Ondřej Holub also regularly works with the Ensemble Damian, with whom he has performed in the operas La contesa de’ numi by Leonardo Vinci (Marte) and L’Amor non há legge by Antonio Caldara (Tirsi). Both of these pieces were staged at the Olomouc Baroque Festival, and Caldara’s opera was performed three times at Smetana’s Litomyšl Festival in Nové Hrady castle (in 2018). As a soloist, Ondřej Holub regularly collaborates with a number of ensembles and orchestras (the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra). He has been an ensemble singer in most of the leading Czech early music ensembles – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, Cappella Mariana, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Musica Florea, and Victoria Ensemble.
Between 2013 and 2019, he was a member of the Martinů Voices chamber choir, one of the outstanding interpreters of 20th century and contemporary music. He regularly participates in prestigious national and international festivals. In 2007, he founded the male vocal quintet Rudolfvoice with former members of the Pueri Gaudentes Boys’ Choir and performed with them at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Ondřej Holub cooperates with the Prague Philharmonic Choir on an external basis and joined it on stage for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in Carnegie Hall in New York to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia.
