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CENTRAL EUROPEAN MUSIC AGENCY
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CONDUCTOR SINGERS PIANO HARPSICHORD ORGAN HARP VIOLA CELLO FRENCH HORN ENSEMBLES PROJECTS |
| Magdalena Kožená was born in Brno in 1973. She studied at the Brno Conservatoire and continued her studies with Eva Blahová at the College of Performing Arts of Bratislava, graduating in 1995. She was awarded several major prizes in both the Czech Republic and internationally (culminating in the 6th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 1995). She has sung both Dorabella and Isabella ("L'Italiana in Algeri") for the Janacek Opera House in Brno and appears regularly at the Prague Spring and Concertus Moraviae Festivals. In 1996/97 she was a member of the Vienna Volksoper. In 1998 she sang Paride in Gluck's "Paride ed Elena" for the Drottningholm Festival. Her concerts have included concerts of Bach arias at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Prague Rudolfinum and Bratislava Primacialny Palace. She has sung Mahler's 4th Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic and Libor Pesek, appeared throughout Europe with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre and appears regularly in recital. Miss Kozena's recent recordings include a recital of Bach arias, Handel's Roman Motets and Italian Cantatas with Marc Minkowski for DG/Archiv, and her first solo recital disc (Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu with Graham Johnson - Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, 2001) for Deutsche Grammophon, with whom she has signed an exclusive contract. Her recent engagements have included several noteable debuts; at the Chatelet, Paris in the title role of Gluck's "Orphée" with John Eliot Gardiner; at the Vienna Festival as Nerone ("L'Incoronazione di Poppea") with Minkowski; at the Edinburgh Festival (Sesto in "La clemenza di Tito"); at the Leipzig Opera (Mélisande with Minkowski), at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Cherubino and at the Netherlands Opera as Sesto ("Giulio Cesare"). Her forthcoming engagements include Cherubino for the Bavarian State Opera, Zerlina for the Salzburg Festival (under Harnoncourt), Melisande in Ferrara and Paris with Minkowski, Idamantes at the Glyndebourne Festival (under Rattle) and both Idamantes and Dorabella under Rattle in Salzburg and Berlin. |
