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Hana Blažíková is an exceptional figure on the Czech and international early music scene. She graduated from the Prague Conservatory, where she studied under Jiří Kotouč.
Currently, the singer specialises in the interpretation of mostly Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval repertoire and performs solo with many of the world’s leading ensembles, including Collegium Vocale Gent, Gli Angeli Genève, Bach Collegium Japan, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Pygmalion, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, La Cetra, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Collegium Marianum, Tiburtina Ensemble, Collegium 1704 and Cappella Mariana.
 
Hana Blažíková appears at major international festivals, such as the Prague Spring, the Edinburgh International Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Resonanzen (Vienna), the Summer Festivities of Early Music, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Chopin i jego Europa, Festival de Saintes, Bachfest Leipzig and Concentus Moraviae.
 
She has also sung works by Bach with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberger Symphoniker under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt. Her collaboration with the Bach Collegium Japan took her to New York’s Carnegie Hall. Since 2015, she has worked closely with the renowned cornetto player Bruce Dickey, with whom she has toured several times in North America, Australia and Tasmania.
 
In 2017, she performed in all three of Monteverdi’s operas under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and sang in leading opera and concert houses in both Europe and the USA.
 
Hana Blažíková also plays the Gothic and Romanesque harp. She appeared on more than forty CD recordings.

Pavla Radostová is a graduate of the Brno Conservatory and Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. She focuses primarily on Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary music, but in recent years she has also returned to Classical and Romantic music. She loves discovering the stories hidden in the texts of the vocal repertoire, in any musical genre. Here she showcases her natural musicality, sense of words, musical alertness, precise intonation, and unique interpretation. Her singing is often praised by critics for its technical maturity, wide vocal range, and varied emotional spectrum, supported by a colorfulness ranging from angelic crystal and sweet to honey-deep and sensual tones.
 
As a soloist and ensemble singer, she regularly collaborates with leading Czech and foreign ensembles of various musical genres (such as Collegium Vocale Gent, Collegium 1704, Drei Engel, Musica Florea, Cappella Mariana, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inégal, Brno Philharmonic, Reich Quartet, Brno Contemporary Orchestra, Berg Orchestra, Musica aeterna, Ensemble Opera Diversa, Tupá šídla, Musica Laetitia). This collaboration has given her the opportunity to perform in Czech and world premieres of several compositions.
 
Pavla Radostová made her debut in 2018 at the South Bohemian Theater in České Budějovice in the role of Barena in the opera Její pastorkyňa. In 2024, she made her successful debut at the National Theater in Prague in the dual role of L’Amour and Clarine in the opera Platée, which was ranked among the ten best productions of 2024 by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
 
As a soloist, she has participated in the creation of several CDs and radio recordings (Philippe de Monte: Madrigali spirituali, Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boréades, František Ignác Antonín Tůma: Te Deum, Antonín Brossmann: Missa in A, František Xaver Richter: Super flumina Babylonis / Miserere mei Deus, Gérard Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, the cycle Music for the Siren, Joël Bons: Thirty Situations, Fausto Romitelli: EnTrance, Petr Hora: The Red of the Flesh, Hans Abrahamsen: Two Songs by Inger Christensen, etc.).

Mezzo-soprano Anna Moriová graduated from the Pilsen Conservatory under the guidance of Simona Procházková and subsequently from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Natalija Melnik. In 2022 and 2024, she completed two six-month residencies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, studying with Sebastian Vittucci, Stephen Delaney, and Anton Scharinger. In 2021, she won the Dušek Singing Competition in Prague. In 2025, she was awarded 1st Prize in the Song category and 2nd Prize in the Opera category at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition, along with several special prizes. She regularly participates in vocal masterclasses led by distinguished artists such as A. Carangelo, V. Chmelo, G. Beňačková, K. Kněžíková, M. Cukrová, B. Lafont, and S. Šaturová.

In 2022, she made her debut at the National Theatre in Prague as Fekluša (L. Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) and in March 2024 as the Kitchen Boy (A. Dvořák: Rusalka). In December 2022, she debuted at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc as the Third Wood Sprite (Rusalka), and in May 2023 she appeared there as Annio (W. A. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito). In December 2023, she debuted at the South Bohemian Theatre as Magdaléna (J. Jirásek: Komenský), and in April 2024 as Varvara (L. Janáček: Káťa Kabanová) at the Silesian Theatre in Opava.

Since September 2023, she has been a soloist of the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, where she has prepared additional roles including Fenena (G. Verdi: Nabucco), Barena and Jana (L. Janáček: Jenůfa), Hänsel (E. Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel), and Flora Bervoix (G. Verdi: La Traviata). In October 2025, she made her debut at the National Theatre Brno as Barena (Jenůfa).

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 et de danse de Paris (Baroque violin with François Fernandez). He is a finalist of the Telemann-Wettbewerb International Competition in Magdeburg. He has been trained as a singer since 2010 throughout private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Poppy Holden) and many masterclasses.
 
As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Correspondances, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Vox Luminis, or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory in New York, Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung the role of Acis in Georg Friedrich Handel’s Acis and Galatea, the role of Atys in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Atys, the role of Pythonisse in David et Jonathas and Histoires Sacrés by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, or The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell. He is 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. Today the ensemble is regularly invited to the prestigious festivals, a.o. Oude Muziek Utrecht, MAfestival Brugge, Voices of Passion in Leuven, Laus Polyphoniae in Antwerpen, Klangvokal Musikfestival Dortmund, Prague Spring, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Summer Festivities of Early Music and Concentus Moraviae. The ensemble received the Czech Angel Award for Best Recording in the category of Classical Music for 2024 for the project Pilgrimage.
 
As a violinist, Vojtěch Semerád is a permanent member of the Collegium Marianum ensemble and also performs in multi-genre and original musical projects.
 
He has recorded for Deutsche Gramophon, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi, Passacaille and Supraphon, in total more than 30 recordings, and also regularly records for Czech Radio. Vojtěch Semerád is also a researcher, focusing on the discovery of 15th, 16th and 17th century vocal music in Central Europe.

Tomáš Šelc graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in the class of Peter Mikuláš and in opera singing and choral conducting at the Bratislava Conservatory. In 2013 he received the Student Personality of Slovakia Award 2013/2014 in the Music and Arts category.

He focuses on sacred music, songwriting, opera and operetta genre. Since 2006, he has regularly participated in domestic and foreign international singing competitions (Vráble, Trnava, Karlovy Vary, Kroměříž, Olomouc, Eger, Prague, Munich, Berlin), where he took the top places several times in a row.

He appeared on prestigious concert stages and international festivals (Bratislava Music Festival, Central-European Music Festival in Žilina, Musica Nobilis, Easter Festival of Sacred Music, Prague Spring, Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Wratislavia Cantans, Festival de Santander, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and others). He attended masterclasses focused on interpretation of Baroque music led by Peter Schreier in Lubeck.

Tomáš Šelc performed at the world premieres of works by Jorge Bosso and Vladimír Godár. He made recordings for Hänssler Classic (Fauré: Requiem), Pavian Records (Godár: Querela pacis), Accent (Zelenka: Italian Arias), Phaedra (Ján Levoslav Bella) and in 2013 he released his first profile CD – Biographie – published in Pavian Records and his second profile CD entitled Ave Maria et alia opera musicasacra (nominated for Album of the Year 2013 in the Radio Head Awards), published in Music Forum.

He is a member of the prestigious choral and ensemble groups Collegium Vocale Gent, Clemencic Consort, Taverner Consort, Savaria Baroque Orchestra.

Since 2013 he has performed baritone roles in the operas Don Giovanni, Maria di Rohan, La clemenza di Tito, King Teodor in Venice, Carmen, Salome and Gianni Schicchi at the National Theatre in Brno and the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava.