Bratislava Music Agency
Záhumenská 3/A
841 06 Bratislava 4
Slovakia
Slovakia Cantat 2025
April 24 - 27, 2025, April 23 - 26, 2026, Bratislava
April 24 - 27, 2025, April 23 - 26, 2026, Bratislava
Ensembles
Choirchestra
Czech Republic
The Choirchestra Mixed Choir was founded in 2010 by a group of friends with previous choral experience and their own vision. Choirchestra does not have a genre-specific repertoire; the ensemble performs art choral compositions by Czech and foreign composers from the Renaissance to the 21st century, as well as arrangements of folk songs and spirituals, and often also compositions belonging to popular music. Concerts are dramaturgically conceived with regard to the chosen topic. The choir also performs contemporary music (in 2021 the premiere of D. Šimek’s Lux aeterna, in 2024 the Czech premiere of Ľ. Bernáth’s Brevi oratione pro defunctis). In 2024, Choirchestra won the golden award at the Festival of Songs in Olomouc in the Mixed Choirs category and made it to the competition for the absolute winner. Since 2022 the choir has been led by Eduard Kostelník.
Eduard Kostelník
Conductor / Leader
Eduard Kostelník comes from the historical town of Levoča. After graduating from organ and conducting at the Košice Conservatory, he went on to the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in choral conducting. In 2021 he started his studies in orchestra conducting at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno. As part of his studies, he is actively involved in the Chamber Opera of the JAMU, where he collaborated as an accompanist on the staging of the operas Dialogues of the Carmelites by F. Poulanc, The Two Widows by B. Smetana and Calvary by Markéta Brothánková. He also served as assistant conductor of the contemporary opera J.A.K from Labyrinth by Noema Savková, which premiered at the Janáček Brno Festival. At the beginning of 2023 he was assistant conductor at the National Theratre Brno for the opera Falstaff by G. Verdi and also collaborated with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc (2023, 2024) and PKF – Prague Phillharmonia (2023). Within the JAMU Chamber Opera he has staged the operas The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and the one-act opera In the Well by Vilém Blodek.
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