Collegium Marianum is a

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-based Czech early music orchestra founded in 1997 by the

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Jana Semerádová. She graduated from the

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and the Philosophical faculty of

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, where she studied theory and performance practice of

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. She completed her studies at the

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in the class of Wilbert Hazelzet. In the years 2008-2011, she taught the baroque

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and leads master classes. Semerádová is also programme director of the concert cycle Baroque Soirées and the annual ''Letní slavnosti staré hudby'' (Summer Festivities of Early Music).''Czech Music'' Music Information Center of the Czech Music Foundation-2006 Page 189 "The CD is further proof of the rising standard of Czech orchestras performing early music on historical instruments or replicas. All the members of the Collegium Marianum ensemble have an excellent training and enthusiasm, their commitment to individual study, self-discipline and demanding leadership (the musical director is Jana Semeradova,..."

Discography

* Henrico Albicastro: Concerti a quattro op.7 Nr.1-12, with

Collegium 1704 Collegium 1704 is a Czech early music orchestra and choir founded in 2005 by the Czech conductor, harpsichordist, and horn player Václav Luks. The Collegium Vocale 1704 is the affiliated vocal ensemble. Since 2007, the ensemble has been making re ...

, Luks 2 CDs 2000 Pan Classics * Music of Baroque Prague I - with Constanze Backes, and Marián Krejčík baritone 2003 * Music of Baroque Prague II - with Hana Blažíková 2005 * Gloria, sacred arias

Simona Houda-Šaturová Simona Houda-Šaturová is a Slovak classical soprano who has had an active international career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals since the early 1990s. In 2001, she was honored with a Thalia Award and in 2007 she won the Charlotte an ...

. Ars. *

Jan Dismas Zelenka Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was raise ...

: Sepolcri. Hana Blažíková,

David Erler David Erler (born 1981) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music. Career Erler was born in Auerbach (Vogtland). He attended the musical gymnasium ''Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium'' in ...

, Tobias Hunger, Tomas Kral, Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova *

František Jiránek František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech ( Bohemian) Baroque composer, musician and very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi. Life Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou (Northern Bohemia, present-day Czech Rep ...

: Sinfonias. Supraphon * ''Rorate Coeli'', works of V. K. H. Rovenský, A. Reichenauer, J. D. Zelenka, J. F. Fasch, A. Caldara. Hana Blažíková Collegium Marianum, dir. Jana Semerádová, 2009 *

Jan Josef Ignác Brentner Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (''Johann Joseph Ignaz'', surname also spelled Brenntner, Brendner, Brendtner, or Prentner; he preferred the name Joseph) (November 3, 1689 – June 28, 1742), was a Bohemian composer of the Baroque era. Biography Jan Jose ...

: Concertos & Arias Hana Blažíková Collegium Marianum, Jana Semerádová, 2009 * A. Caldara: ''Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo'' Hana Blažíková as Maddalena DVD Collegium Marianum * Musici da Camera - Music form 18th Century Prague, Vivaldi etc. 2 CDs

Supraphon Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers. History The Supraphon name was first registered as a trademark in 1932. T ...

2012

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Acis & Galatea by Handel
with Collegium Marianum. Soloist Patricia Janeckova, recording in

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