Vojtěch Semerád Acis
Vojtěch Semerád is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University in Prague (Choirmastering), and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (Baroque violin with François Fernandez). He is a finalist of the Telemann-Wettbewerb International Competition in Magdeburg. He has been trained as a singer since 2010 throughout private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Poppy Holden) and many masterclasses.
As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Correspondances, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Vox Luminis, or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung the role of Acis in Georg Friedrich Handel’s Acis and Galatea, the role of Atys in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Atys, the role of Pythonisse in David et Jonathas and Histoires Sacrés by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, or The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell. He is regularly invited as the Evangelist in passions and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Vojtěch Semerád is the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Mariana, with which he performs forgotten works of vocal polyphony of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque era. Today the ensemble is regularly invited to the prestigious festivals, a.o. Oude Muziek Utrecht, MAfestival Brugge, Voices of Passion Leuven, Laus Polyphoniae Antwerpen, Klangvokal Dortmund, Prague Spring, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, and Concentus Moraviae.
As a violinist, Vojtěch Semerád is a permanent member of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and also performs in multi-genre and original musical projects.
He has recorded for Deutsche Gramophon, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi, Passacaille and Supraphon, in total more than 30 recordings, and also regularly records for Czech Radio. Vojtěch Semerád is also a researcher, focusing on the discovery of 15th, 16th and 17th century vocal music in Central Europe.
