Čeněk Svoboda was born in 1978 in Liberec, where he also finished his violin studies at elementary artistic school. Already during his studies at the F. X. Œalda grammar school, he began applying himself intensively to choir singing, and between 1993-1998, he was a member of Liberec mixed chamber choir Rosex. In 1994, Čeněk Svoboda founded an ensemble called Vokální oktet and led the ensemble as artistic director until 2003. Since 2000, he has been the conductor of a grammar-school choir Cum decore in Liberec, and since 2006, he has also been working with another Liberec choir Ještěd, becoming their first conductor in January 2007.
In Prague, Čeněk Svoboda studied conducting at the Pedagogic Faculty of Charles University under Jiří Kolář and Marek Valášek. As a conductor, he won several awards in domestic and international choirmasters\' competitions. In 2005, the Singing Choirs Union awarded Čeněk Svoboda a national award Junior Conductor. Between 2003-2007, he and the choir Cum decore got a number of awards at major international festivals (Praga cantat 2004, Jihlava 2005, Ifas 2006, Bratislava 2007).
Apart from conducting, Čeněk Svoboda also devotes himself to solo singing (in private lessons with Svatava Œubrtová). Lately, he has been singing professionally both as an ensemble singer and as a soloist in leading local and international early music vocal ensembles (Collegium Vocale 1704, Doulce Mémoire, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Ensemble Inégal and others).
Čeněk Svoboda began working with Collegium 419 in spring 2004 and between 2004-2007 he rehearsed and produced a number of great works of early music: complete set of Motets by Johann Sebastian Bach, Officium defunctorum by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Responsories by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa quinis vocibus by Kryštof Harant and many others.

After graduating from the Conservatory of Music in Teplice (violin – 1996, and conducting – 1998), she studied choir conducting under prof. L. Mátl (2003) and orchestra conducting under doc. E. Skoták (2006) at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno.

During her studies she was cooperating with various professional and amateur ensembles, e.g. with the Academic Choir of Brno, the Teplice Conservatory orchestra, the Janáček orchestra of the Janáček Academy, the Moravian Plilharmonic Olomouc, and the Brno Philharmonic.

In 1994-2000 she was working with the children’s choir CAMELLA in Nový Bor. Since 1999 she has been conducting and regularly performing with the mixed choir VOKÁL Přerov and took golden and silver band places in the international competition Svátky písní Olomouc. In 2002-2004 she was conducting the mixed choir Lumír in Brno. In 2003-2010 she was choirmaster of the children’s chamber choir Kolibříci at the J.G.Mendel’s Comprehensive School in Brno. Since 1998 she has been teaching violin and singing at various Basic Schools of Performing Arts. Since 2006 she has also been teaching music theory and conducting a big choir at the Conservatory of Music in Brno. Since 1999 she has been choirmaster of a special choir Sebranka, specializing in new methods of teaching singing to adult non-singers.

Her interest in music is realized not only through teaching, but also through active performance. She is member of the countrywide choir Bohemiachor and of several smaller ensembles (violin, singing, piano).

Rachel Skleničková was born 21.6.1992 in Prague. In 2003 she entered the Jan Neruda Grammar School in Prague, where she studied two majors: piano with MgA. Ružena Učňová and singing with MgA. Magdalena Bělohlávková.
In 2006 she started her studies at the Jan Deyl Conservatory and Secondary School for the Visually Impaired (she is completely blind), where she studied piano with MgA. Jana Köhlerová and a second major in voice with MgA. Nadězda Ostřanská.
In 2011 she participated in the piano winners' concert at The Very Special Art competition in Washington, where she was selected as one of the three winners.

In the Czech Republic, she has also successfully participated in several competitions, mainly in the field of classical piano.
She has performed successfully at the Prague Proms and Prague Spring Festivals with a piano concerto by L. van Beethoven.
In 2015, she was a guest at the 18th annual Spannungen Festival organized by Lars Vogt in Heimbach, Germany.
In June 2014 she graduated from the Jan Deyl Conservatory in piano performance and received the degree of DiS. She then studied piano at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts under Prof. Ivan Klánský and Prof. František Malý, graduating in 2021.
In the summer of 2017 she released a CD as part of the Kalkant project supported by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra among seven other young artists.

Ak. In 2018-2019 she studied in Helsinki within the Erasmus programme at Sibelius Academy under the piano direction of Prof. Hanna Aho. However, there was also education in choral music and Nordic singing techniques and playing folk instruments (Scandinavian violin or kantele).
Although her main field of study is piano, she also boldly dabbles in other fields, such as classical singing in the past - she graduated in this field in 2013 - and pop and jazz singing in the present, which she has applied, for example, in television broadcasts in collaboration with the Světluška Foundation in duets with famous personalities such as Tomáš Klus, the group Čtyřtet or Miro Žbirka, with whom she released the duet Čistý svet in 2019. The cooperation with this foundation contributed in no small part to her contact with famous personalities and later helped her career rise. She also composes occasionally. She has no formal training in choral conducting or conducting, but she has years of experience working with the Gabriel Choir, which she also conducts when performing some of its repertoire.
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In her spare time she enjoys playing sports, travelling, learning new languages such as Finnish, which she applied during her Erasmus studies, and going outdoors.

Igor Karpilovsky studied conducting at the Brno Conservatoire under Stanislav Kummer. In practice he focuses mainly on choirs. In Brno he has worked with the Primavera children's choir and the mixed choirs Choirchestra and Gaudeamus.
He is currently studying conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (among others under the pedagogical guidance of N. Baxa, T. Koutník and L. Vasilko) and works as a singer or choirmaster in several Prague choirs, including the Kühn Mixed Choir. He is also a member and one of the permanent choirmasters of the national choir Bohemiachor and since September 2022 he has been leading the Prague choir Punkt, which focuses on contemporary music. During his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague he collaborated with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic, the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice and the Martinů Voices chamber choir. He spent the winter semester 2023-24 in Vienna as part of the Erasmus+ programme at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, where he studied choral conducting with the renowned Austrian choral conductor Alois Glaßner.

In November 2023, he conducted the brass orchestra of the Music of the Castle Guard and the Police of the Czech Republic and in January 2024 he won the first prize in the category of conducting students at a competitive conducting showcase organised by the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. In February 2024 he performed his Bachelor's Concert at HAMU with the Orchestra of the Academic Chamber Soloists and members of the Kühn Mixed Choir. Since March 2024 he has been working as an assistant conductor with the Liberec F. X. Šalda.

Jaroslav Šindler Jr. (*1995), as the son of a jazz guitarist, was exposed to music from a very young age, but he only started to actively pursue it when he entered the ZUŠ at the age of 12 (playing the piano). From 2011 he studied jazz piano in Jan Andro's class, under whose guidance he also played in the school band. The experience gained there he has been capitalizing on, among other things, in Anna Julia Slováčková's band, where he has been playing since 2017.

In 2021 he completed his Bachelor's degree at the Czech Technical University (Informatics), in 2023 he graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College of Music (Composition) under Tomáš Sýkora. He now uses the partial combination of these two fields of study to work as an editor at the music publishing house Bärenreiter Prague. This year he is finishing his Master's degree at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Jazz-Arrangement/Komposition).

Besides playing the piano, he has been involved in choral music for many years. He has performed in the Divertimento choirs (sb. Jaroslava Halamová, Tomáš Klima; the current choir Dábrlíbap is led by Filip Beneš), Beshamonie (choir of Libor Sládek) and Bohemiachor (choir of Vít Novotný). In 2015, he co-founded the male choir HuMuS (formerly Ch-tdž!), which he still leads and with which he won the absolute winner of the Jirkovský písňovar choral festival in 2017. Between 2018 and 2023, he was a member of the vocal ensemble Gentlemen Singers (art. v. Richard Uhlíř), and from 2022-2023 he was guest choirmaster of the Czech gay choir Doodles (sb. Marek Stanka).

Thanks to all this experience, she is currently working with a number of vocal ensembles and choirs - writing arrangements, consulting at rehearsals, etc. In 2022, he led a workshop at the Jirkovské písňovar, where the following year he sat on the expert jury.

Born in 1982; singer, teacher and conductor.

Initially, she studied the recorder at the Teplice conservatory, and at the same time she frequented the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, where she studied music didactics. She finished her studies in Dortmund, where she focused on solo singing and conducting. She further specialised in choral vocal tutoring, especially concerning dynamics, timbre and accurate interpretation of the style of various musical periods. The core of her interest is jazz and popular music; in 2011, she studied at Glen Bushmann’s Jazz Academy in Dortmund and took courses in rhythmical music conducting (Matthias Becker, Martin Carbow, Roger Treece, Jens Johansen). In 2014, she finished her 3-year studies at the Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen, thus becoming the first Czech music teacher to receive CVT certification.

During her studies, she began working as the vocal counsellor and conductor of the Dortmund University Choir and participated in international projects, e.g. “Campus Cantat”. At present she conducts the “Hebbboppers“ jazz choir under the Dortmund University (where she has begun her graduation studies in musicology), she works as an international CVT Coach and is a member of the German a capella groups “Stimmrecht“ and “Cayenne“.