Lucie Silkenová

Lucie Silkenová received her first musical experiences as member of the Kühn Children’s Choir. She studied the musically orientated Jan Neruda High School and after seven years’ co-operation with Ivan Kusnjer, opera soloist of the National Theatre in Prague, she graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She has also honed her vocal technique at master classes in England, Spain, Germany and Austria (Anatolli Goussev, Gery Grice, Rotraud Hansmann, Margreet Honig, Tom Krause, Georg Nigl, Margot Nollen, Alexander Olivier, Tomas Paul, Marta Scheffel). Lucie has won several important prizes at international voice competitions. Among the most significant for her career have been the 1^st Prize at the international competition in France Concours International d’Encouragement Musical, Lyon 2008 (Rotary Club) and the 2^nd Prize in the opera category at the Antonín Dvořák International Vocal Competition, Karlovy Vary 2009 together with theatre awards (National Theatre Prague, State Opera Prague, State Theatre in Košice - Slovakia). From 2010 she is a resident guest of the National Theatre in Prague. She has made many concert appearances including with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinů Symphony Orchestra Zlín, Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc and North Bohemian Philharmonic in Teplice. She has collaborated with numerous renowned conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek, John Fiore, Robert Jindra, Jiří Kout, Ondrej Lenárd, Tomáš Netopil, Jac van Steen and Osmo Vänskä. She successfully performed at international music festivals as Prague Spring International Music Festival, International Opera Festival Smetana’s Litomyšl and Festival Mahler Jihlava 2009 - Music of a Thousand and others. She has made several recordings with the labels Navora Records, ArcoDiva and Czech Radio.

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