Markéta Cukrová

Mezzosoprano Markéta Cukrová belongs to the most sought-for Czech soloists in the field of historically informed music. Her name is frequently found in the programs of Baroque oratorio and opera, chamber music and lieder recitals, as well as those of contemporary composers.

Since 1992 she has been taking part in Early Music projects throughout Europe both as a soloist and a member of numerous ensembles. Her performing abilities range from Medieval (Mala Punica, Club Mediéval) to Baroque (Les Muffatti, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Musica Florea, Ensemble Inégal, Arte dei Suonatori) and Classicism (lieder recitals accompanied by hammerklavier).

She appears regularly at the most distinguished festivals of differing genres (Prague Spring Festival, Laus Polyphoniae, La Chaise-Dieu, Sable, Europalia, Prague Summer Festival, Brugge and Utrecht Early Music Festivals, St. Venceslas Festival, Miami Tropical Baroque, Musikverein Wien, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Trionale). She has particiated in more than twenty recording projects, among others Officium Defunctorum and Missa Votiva/Jan Dismas Zelenka/Collegium 1704, Missa Nativitatis Domini/Zelenka/Musica Florea, Missa D-major/Antonín Dvořák/Ensemble Inégal, etc.

In 2015, she was honoured to take part in the project “Pilsen, European City of Culture” where she conceived the artistic programme of the West Bohemia Baroque Summer Festival.

Markéta has taken part in the première setting of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Euridice) at the Prague National Theatre, Händel’s Rinaldo (Eustacio) at the theatres in Prague, Caën, Luxembourg and Rennes, and in Bohuslav Martinů’s The Miracles of Mary. In 2012 she was invited by the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen to perform Händel’s Amadigi di Gaula (Dardano) under the baton of the widely known musicologist and conductor Andrew Parrott, staged by Sigrid T’Hooft, a performance that claimed wide success both in the public and in the reviews.