Vojtěch Semerád

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 trained as a singer since 2010 during private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Markéta Cukrová) and many masterclasses. 

As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád has been invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Pygmalion, Vox Luminis, Ensemble Correspondances, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, Philharmonie de Paris, Salzburger Festspiele. He has taken part in several opera productions, and recently has sung the role of Acis in George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, the title role in Jean Baptiste Lully’s Atys, the role of Pythonisse in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, as well as in Charpentier’s Histoires Sacrés, and The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell. He has been 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.  

As a violinist, Vojtěch Semerád is a permanent member of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and also performs in multi-genre and original musical projects.