Tomáš Lajtkep Coridon

Tomáš Lajtkep began taking private solo singing lessons while studying electrical engineering at Brno University of Technology. He first attended lessons with Hana Málková in Brno, and since 2015 with Luděk Löbl in Prague. His interpretation of Baroque and Renaissance music draws on his experience from masterclasses with bass Joel Fredericksen, soprano Evelyn Tubb, and tenor Erik Stoklossa.
 
Since 2008, he has established cooperation with leading ensembles dedicated to medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music in the Czech Republic and other European countries. These include the Czech groups Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, Collegium 1704, Cappella Mariana, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Hof-Musici, and the Berg Orchestra, and the foreign groups Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Jordi Savall), Ensemble Cinquecento, In Alto Ensemble, Vox Luminis, La Grande Chapelle, Copenhagen Soloists, Wrocław Baroque Ensemble, and the Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble. He collaborates with these ensembles on concert and recording projects.
 
With the Collegium Marianum, he appears in Georg Frideric Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea. At the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen, he sang in Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’incoronazione di Poppea, conducted by Vojtěch Spurný and directed by Ondřej Pilař. With the Hof-Musici ensemble under the artistic direction of Ondřej Macek, he performed in opera by Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani’s La vaghezza del fato (in 2022 in its world premiere), and in 2023, in Antonio Gianettini’s L’Echo ravvivata (at the Festival of Baroque Art in the Baroque Theatre in Český Krumlov).
 
Tomáš Lajtkep also presents contemporary music with the Berg Orchestra and Cappella Mariana, including compositions by composers such as Steve Reich, Wolfgang Rihm, Stanislav Hořínka, and Martin Smolka.