Jana Semerádová - NOSPR

The transverse flute player Jana Semerádová is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, Charles University, and the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the Netherlands. She is a laureate of the Magdeburg and Munich international competitions.
Jana Semerádová is the artistic director of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and programming director of the concert cycle Baroque Soirées and the international music festival Summer Festivities of Early Music. She is engaged in intensive research both at home and abroad and in the study of Baroque gesture, declamation, and dance. Many of her unique programs are built on the interconnection of music and drama. Under her direction, Collegium Marianum stages several modern premieres each year. Jana Semerádová has made a number of recordings; her CDs with Collegium Marianum have appeared as part of the successful series ''Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague'' on the Supraphon label. On Supraphon she has also recorded her feature CD ''Solo for the King''.
Jana Semerádová has performed on prominent European festivals (eg. Bachfest Leipzig, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Festival de Sablé, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Prague Spring, Wratislavia Cantans). As a soloist she has collaborated with eminent artists such as Magdalena Kožená, Sergio Azzolini, Alfredo Bernardini, and Enrico Onofri, and she regularly appears with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il Suonar Parlante, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, and Ars Antiqua Austria.
In 2015 she received her habilitation degree as an associate professor of flute from the Faculty of Music and Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.