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The Czech soprano, Ivana Bilej Brouková, graduated in singing from the Prague Conservatory and the Berlin Hochschule der Künste (2000), where, under the instruction of lutenist Nigel North, she became acquainted with the authentic interpretation of early music. That led her to develop an interest in music from the Early Baroque to the Early Classical period. She has attended master-classes, for example, with Emma Kirkby, Jill Feldman, Richard Wistreich and René Jacobs. She was awarded a prize in the Biagio Marini (BRD) competition and was on a year’s scholarship at the Akademie für Alte Musik, Bremen.
In past years Ivana Brouková has been invited to participate in opera projects, for example, the National Thatre Prague, Lausitzer Opernsommer and the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata, frequent participation at Music Festivals: Prague Spring Festival, Concentus Moravie, Uckermaerkische Musikwochen, De Bijloke Gent, Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, Accademia delle Creti Senesi a.o. At home and abroad she gives concerts with various professional ensembles concerned with early music (Collegium 1704 (Director: Václav Luks), Musica Florea (Director: Marek Štryncl), Capella Regia, Hipocondria Ensemble or Bremer Baroque Consort, a.o.) and also in duets with Lute players Ophira Zakai, Jan Krejča., cembalist Edita Keglerová and romantic guitar player Jana Steidl Kindernayova. Since 2008 she is a member of a female vocal ensemble Tiburtina ensemble interpreting western plainchant, medieval polyphonic music and contemporary music.
Ivana Brouková figures on various Radio, TV and CD recordings (Supraphon, Arta Records, Animal Music, Brilliant Classics a.o.) To her favourite CD recordigs belong: "Mucic from the Prague Cathedral" with Hipocondria Ensemble, "Amor Tiranno" (from the oldes music manuscript of Raudnitz-Lobkowicz collection) and in 2015 released CD "Sonatas, Sonatinas, Songs" set from the "Sammlung vermischter Klavier und Gesangstücke für geübte und ungeübte Spieler" by G.A. Benda. |
