Helena Hozová

Soprano Helena Hozová studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatory with Martina Forštová, at the Janáček Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Brno with Jaroslava Jánská and Marta Beňačková and at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden in Christiane Hossfeld’s class.

As part of the Opera Studio Pardubice and the Chamber Opera of the Janáček Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Brno she studied the roles of Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Cinderella (Martinů’s The Comedy on the Bridge), Luigia (Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali), Jelena Ivanovna Popová (Ivo Jirásek’s Medvěd) and First Witch (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas).

She has collaborated with the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra in Pardubice, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in Zlín, the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic, Collegium 1704 and Ensemble Barocco semper giovane. Helena Hozová is also a member of the vocal and instrumental ensemble ReBelcanto.

She performs regularly at international festivals such as the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl, Theatrum Kuks, the Martinů Fest, the Tomáškova a Novákova hudební Skuteč Festival and the Poláčkovo Summer Festival.

In 2010, together with guitarist Irena Babáčková, she founded Nana, a duo specializing in contemporary music, which is now a member of the Czech association for guitar chamber music.

Helena Hozová has recorded Pavel Haas’s Seven Songs in Folk Tone and Luboš Sluka’s song cycles Singing to Children and Flower Language for Czech Radio, as well as Karel Růžička’s Celebration Jazz Mass for Czech Television.