Tereza Zimková soprano

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.