The Ensemble

Jana Chytilová - Baroque Violin
Alexander Seibert - Baroque Violin
Petr Wagner - Viola da Gamba
Simon Martyn-Ellis - Theorbo

Jana Chytilová

Jana Chytilova - Baroque Violin

Born in the Czech Republic, she began her violin studies at the P. J. Vejanovský Conservatorium in Kroměříž and later at the Janáček Academy for Music and Art in Brno, where she graduated with the title Master of Art. After a year of exchange studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany, where she changed to the baroque violin, she chose to continue her studies with Professor Anton Steck at this institution, graduating in 2004. She has also participated in Masterclasses with Rachel Podger, John Holloway, Stanley Richie and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.

Already during her studies she began to perform with many orchestras in Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. Today she performs regularly with Musica Florea Prag, Collegium 1704 and Collegium Marianum. She appears regularly with La Cetra Basel, Concerto Köln and Cappella Coloniensis. With her participation, La Cetra's live recording of Sartorio's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", performed at the Innsbruck Music Festival, received the Diapason d'or award.

She is a founding member also of Quartetto Classico, a Czech ensemble specialising in the performance of Classical era music on period instruments. With the ensemble Cadenza she has won prizes at the Heinrich Schmelzer and Alte Musik-Treff competitions in Melk and Berlin respectively.

Discography

Sartorio, Giulio Cesare in Egitto mit La Cetra
Societas Incognitorum Musical Treasures from Kromeriz Chateau
Societas Incognitorum Adam Vaclav Michna