Our Artists

Adam Viktora, artistic direction & programming

The organist, conductor and harmonium player Adam Viktora appears on music festivals throughout Europe, and lectures and performs on international organ conferences. He also works as adviser in expert committees for the restoration of important historical organs and records for European radio and television channels. He is highly dedicated to historical organs and to efforts towards their conservation and promotion. He is founder and artistic director of the unique Czech Organ Festival project. He teaches organ playing at the Pilsen Conservatory and music theory at the Prague Conservatory. He is artistic director of Ensemble Inégal and Prague Baroque Soloists, with both of which he realized numerous present-day premiere concerts and records of the European baroque repertoire. As such and with these two ensembles, Adam Viktora has become in recent years the most outspoken representative of the currently ongoing process to rediscover the oeuvre of Jan Dismas Zelenka, musical genius of the Bohemian baroque.

Gabriela Eibenová, artistic concept & programming

After her graduation from the Prague Conservatory and her studies in London, Gabriela Eibenová mainly focussed on the performance and interpretation of early music. In the course of her career, she became a sought-after soprano soloist in this field. She performed with renowned musicians, such as Eduardo Lopez Banzo, Ian Partridge, Simon Standage, Evelyn Tubb, Magdalena Kožená, Peter Kooij, a.o. She sang several title roles in baroque operas at home and abroad, such as: J. Blow – Venus and Adonis, J.M. Leclair – Scylla et Glaucus, C. Monteverdi – Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, H.Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (this Czech production from 1998 was awarded the Alfred Radok prize).In the year 2000, she founded Ensemble Inégal together with Adam Viktora and a few years later the ensemble Prague Baroque Soloists. She performs at prestigious music festivals all over Europe (Prague Spring, Brugge, Utrecht, London), she also sang in Israel and Japan. She appeared as guest artist with the Czech Philharmonic, in the Prague State Opera and in the J.K. Tyl Theatre in Plzen, a.o. She regularly records for radio and television and has over 30 CD recordings on her account. Moreover, she sang for Pope John-Paul II, for the Dalaj Lama and for an entire range of high European state officials.

The core of Ensemble Inégal consists of the most outstanding Czech instrumentalists and singers specialized in the authentic performance of early music, playing on historic baroque instruments of faithful copies of those. Many of them followed exclusive training on prestigious schools in e.g. Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and France, and attended specialized seminars, workshops and master classes. Some of them are also sought-after pedagogues in their field. All our musicians are excellent solo singers and instrumentalists.

Ensemble Inégal also cooperates with a range of outstanding international guests, who form an inseparable part of each major project, e.g. Peter Kooij, Roberta Mameli, Friedemann Immer, Hannes Rux, Florian Deuter, Monica Waisman, Jonathan Pešek, Jean Tubery, Carlos Mena, Lisandro Abadie, Kai Wessel, among others.