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Soprano Tereza Zimková graduated from the Bratislava Conservatory in the class of Mária Repková and the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno in the class of Marta Beňačková. She regularly participates in various singing courses lead by Kateřina Beranová, Ingeborg Danz, Margreet Honig, Kateřina Kněžíková, Adam Plachetka or Pavel Breslik. In 2016 she was a finalist in the Antonin’s Dvorak’s International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. In 2019, she won the award for outstanding performance at the International Academy Kroměříž.
 
She focuses on opera, song repertoire and Renaissance and Baroque music. She regurarly collaborates with Il Cuorre Barocco, Solamente Naturali, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Musica Florea, Collegium 1704, Bamberger Symphoniker, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Štátny komorný orchester Žilina, Zlín Philharmonic, Czech Virtuosi and L᾿Armonia Terrena. She has sung under the direction of Helmuth Rilling, Rolf Beck, Leoš Svárovský, Jakub Klecker, Gabriela Tardonová, Marek Štryncl, Zdeněk Klauda, Tomáš Brauner, Zbyněk Müller, Tomáš Netopil and Václav Lukes. As a soloist and member of the vocal ensemble she has collaborated with Chor der Bamberger Symphoniker, Chorakademie Lübeck and the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno on many international tours (Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Greece, France, South Korea, China, Hong Kong).
 
In the 2018/2019 season, she made her debut on the stage of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava in the role of Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicchi. This success was followed by an engagement at the Opera Studio of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. In 2020 she performed at the Bratislava Viva Musica! and also as a soloist in the oratorio Messiah at the Rudolfinum with Collegium 1704. With this ensemble she also participated in the recording of Les Boréades by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which won the Trophées 2020 award for the best album in the opera category.

Countertenor Vojtěch Pelka graduated from the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague in the singing class of Prof. Barbara Klozová Velehradská. Since the beginning of his studies in classical singing he has successfully participated in many international singing competitions. At the 2019 Czech Republic Conservatory Competition he won 2nd place and a special prize for his interpretation of aria by W. A. Mozart.
 
Vojtěch Pelka is devoted to opera and baroque music. He has collaborated with the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has toured China, as well as with the Pilsen Philharmonic, the State Chamber Orchestra, Musica Florea, Ensemble Damian, MDO Orchestra, RUN OPERUN, and the Viaggio musicale ensemble. He has performed at festivals such as Opera Schrattenbach, Theatrum Kuks, Musica Bayreuth, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, and many others.
 
In the 2019/2020 season he made his debut at the Silesian Theatre Opava in the role of Cherubino in W. A. Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro. Shortly afterwards, he played the title role of Emperor Nero in Monteverdi’s opera The Coronation of Poppea at the Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. In 2023 he was a guest in the Margräfliches Opernhaus at the Musica Bayreuth Festival.
 
In the 2022/2023 season, he performed the title role of Sextus in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito for the Moravian Theatre Olomouc. At the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik he performed the title role of Morast in Vivaldi’s opera La fida ninfa. This year he appeared in the role of Jupiter in the premiere of Sebastian Durón’s baroque Spanish opera La guerra de los gigantes, which he staged with the ensemble Musica Florea.
 
Vojtěch Pekla has recorded several CDs, including the dramaturgically unique Alessandro nell’India with arias from the operas of the same name by Ignaz Holzbauer and Jan Antonín Koželuh, accompanied by Ensemble 18+ and Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim.