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Tomáš Král (baritone) studied voice at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno under Adriana Hlavsová and at master classes with Julie Hasler, Howard Crook, Peter Schreier, and Joel Frederiksen, and he has been in consultation with Ivan Kusnjer.
Since 2005, he has been collaborating regularly with Czech ensembles Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Capella Regia, Ensemble Inégal, and Ensemble Tourbillon, and he is a founding member of the ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. He also collaborates with the ensembles and orchestras Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Doulce Mémoire, Musica Aeterna, Red Herring, L’Aura Soave di Cremona, Cinquecento, La Venexiana and Vox Luminis. He has presented himself repeatedly at the festivals Prague Spring, Dresdner Festspiele, Festival de La Chaise Dieu, Festival de Sablé, Festival d’Ambronay, Tage Alte Musik Regensburg, Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Brugge, Bozar, Wien Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore hall and elsewhere.
Tomáš Král also devotes himself to opera, having appeared as Uberto in the comedic intermezzo La serva padrona by G. B. Pergolesi, Giove in La Calisto by F. Cavalli with Collegium Marianum, Lisingo in Le cinesi by C. W. von Gluck with Collegium 1704, Ernesto in Il mondo della Luna by J. Haydn with Ensemble Baroque, Apollo in G. F. Handel's cantata Apollo e Dafne with Musica Florea and as a guest at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc in an operatic production of Boccaccio (title role) and in Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte (as Guglielmo). Last year he took a part in the stage project with conductor Michael Hofstetter on scenic production of W. A. Mozart's Requiem and contemporary composer R. Van Schoor at Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hannover and the theater in Gießen. He also took a part of Ottokar at concert version of Weber's Freischütz at Styriarte Festival in Graz. This year he took a part of main role in G. P. Telemann's adaptation of G. F. Handel's opera Riccardo Primo in the theater in Gießen.
Tomáš Král has taken part in many highly recognized recordings especially with music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (Missa votiva, Requiem & Officium defunctorum, Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta, Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae) as well as in radio (France Musique, Radio Clara, Czech Radio) and TV recordings (Mezzo, Arte or Czech Television).
Since 2005, he has been collaborating regularly with Czech ensembles Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Capella Regia, Ensemble Inégal, and Ensemble Tourbillon, and he is a founding member of the ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704. He also collaborates with the ensembles and orchestras Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Doulce Mémoire, Musica Aeterna, Red Herring, L’Aura Soave di Cremona, Cinquecento, La Venexiana and Vox Luminis. He has presented himself repeatedly at the festivals Prague Spring, Dresdner Festspiele, Festival de La Chaise Dieu, Festival de Sablé, Festival d’Ambronay, Tage Alte Musik Regensburg, Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Brugge, Bozar, Wien Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore hall and elsewhere.
Tomáš Král also devotes himself to opera, having appeared as Uberto in the comedic intermezzo La serva padrona by G. B. Pergolesi, Giove in La Calisto by F. Cavalli with Collegium Marianum, Lisingo in Le cinesi by C. W. von Gluck with Collegium 1704, Ernesto in Il mondo della Luna by J. Haydn with Ensemble Baroque, Apollo in G. F. Handel's cantata Apollo e Dafne with Musica Florea and as a guest at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc in an operatic production of Boccaccio (title role) and in Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte (as Guglielmo). Last year he took a part in the stage project with conductor Michael Hofstetter on scenic production of W. A. Mozart's Requiem and contemporary composer R. Van Schoor at Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hannover and the theater in Gießen. He also took a part of Ottokar at concert version of Weber's Freischütz at Styriarte Festival in Graz. This year he took a part of main role in G. P. Telemann's adaptation of G. F. Handel's opera Riccardo Primo in the theater in Gießen.
Tomáš Král has taken part in many highly recognized recordings especially with music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (Missa votiva, Requiem & Officium defunctorum, Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta, Lamentationes Ieremiae Prophetae) as well as in radio (France Musique, Radio Clara, Czech Radio) and TV recordings (Mezzo, Arte or Czech Television).