{"id":7096,"date":"2024-01-21T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liedercompany.cz\/uncategorized\/vojtech-sembera-baritone\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:13:22","slug":"vojtech-sembera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liedercompany.cz\/en\/people\/vojtech-sembera\/","title":{"rendered":"Vojt\u011bch \u0160embera \u2013 baritone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young baritone and composer Vojt\u011bch \u0160embera<\/strong>\u00a0studied singing at the Jan\u00e1\u010dek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno with Jarom\u00edr Novotn\u00fd and Irena Troupov\u00e1, composition with Ivo Medek and Martin Smolka. He also studied briefly at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he attended composition classes with Cornelis de Bondt, Calliope Tsoupaki and Jan van de Putte, and further improved his singing skills under Noa Frenkel. He has participated in selected interpretation courses abroad (eg VENI Academy, vocal masterclass EMA) and singing masterclasses with Antonio Carangel and Kate\u0159ina Kn\u011b\u017e\u00edkov\u00e1. In his singing practice, he focuses mainly on the interpretation of contemporary music and the song repertoire. His composing activities are mostly aimed at vocal work and graphic scores.<\/p>\n\n

In 2013 and 2014, he was awarded an honourable mention at the GENERATION International Composition Competition, and in 2015 he was awarded 2nd place at the Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k International Singing Competition in the Opera Hope category. In 2017, he received 2nd place at the Du\u0161ek Singing Competition, The President of the EMA prize and 3rd place at the Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k International Singing Competition in the Junior and Song categories.<\/p>\n\n

During his studies at JAMU, he performed in several productions of the JAMU Chamber Opera (M. H\u00e1ba:\u00a0The Little Prince\u00a0<\/i>\u2013 The King, The Snake; W. A. \u200b\u200bMozart:\u00a0The Magic Flute<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Papageno;C. Orff:\u00a0Die Kluge<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 The Mule Man). He made his professional opera debut at the Silesian Theatre in Opava (A. Dvo\u0159\u00e1k:\u00a0Rusalka<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Hunter) and also performed at the Jan Kajet\u00e1n Tyl Theatre in Pilsen (A. Thomas:\u00a0Hamlet<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Horatio). In his concert activities he has performed with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra (C. Orff:\u00a0Carmina Burana<\/i>; J. S. Bach:\u00a0John\u2019s Passions<\/i>; A. Dvo\u0159\u00e1k:\u00a0Biblical Songs<\/i>), with the National Theatre Orchestra (D. Matej:\u00a0KyAriAe<\/i>), North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice (W. A. Mozart:\u00a0The Marriage of Figaro<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Count Almaviva) and others.\u00a0In collaboration with Ensemble 18+, he portrayed one of the main roles in the renewed premiere of Joseph Barta\u2019s singspiel\u00a0Dobr\u00e1 rada dobr\u00e1<\/i>. He performed his own composition for baritone and orchestra\u00a0Filokt\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/i>\u00a0with the Brno Philharmonic and the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Mari\u00e1nsk\u00e9 L\u00e1zn\u011b. Together with Leo\u0161 Sv\u00e1rovsk\u00fd and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, he made a recording of Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s\u00a0Biblical Songs<\/i>. In the field of contemporary music, he has performed with the ensembles VENI ensemble, Mirror ensemble, at the festival Days of New Opera Ostrava (A. H\u00e1ba:\u00a0Thy Kingdom Come<\/i>\u00a0\u2013Christ, Lay Preacher; Songbooks \u2013 Solo Voice), or with Orchestr BERG (L. Lim:\u00a0Tongue of the Invisible<\/i>). During his one-year study stay in the Netherlands, he collaborated with the Orkest de Ereprijs on the Young Composers Meeting project and performed at the Dag in de Branding festival (M. Arta\u00e7:\u00a0Zizos<\/i>). He regularly collaborates with the Meeting of New Music Plus festival. With his own project\u00a0Voice Drowned in the Ocean of Silence<\/i>, which has so far been attended by composers from more than 10 countries, he contributes to expanding the repertoire for solo voice.<\/p>\n\n

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