Václav Čížek

Tenor Václav Čížek studied singing at the Church Conservatoire of the Teutonic Order in Troppau with Sylva Pivovarčíková-Králová, Karel Smolka and Alexandr Vovk. He then continued his studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in Brno with Zdeněk Šmukař, where he appeared as Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto and as Lensky in a chamber version of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Further studies followed in Alexandr Vovk’s class at the University of Ostrava, where he appeared as Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni).

As a soloist and member of vocal ensembles, he collaborates regularly with orchestras such as Collegium 1704, Musica Florea, Ensemble Inégal, the Czech Ensemble Baroque and Hof-Musici. Václav Čížek is a regular guest at prestigious festivals and international concert halls and opera houses, including the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles, the Théâtre de Caen, the Opéra de Dijon, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the MA Festival Bruges, the Musikfest Stuttgart, the Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the International Music Festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’, the Muzyki Polskiej Festival in Krakow, the Prague Spring Festival and the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl.

Václav Čížek has been involved in a number of recordings with Collegium 1704 and Ensemble Inégal, including Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, Missa Omnium Sanctorum, Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis and Missa Paschalis and Bach’s Mass in B minor.