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Roman Válek

Conductor Roman Válek is a pioneer of the historical performance movement in Eastern Europe. He is the chief conductor of the Czech Ensemble Baroque, a group he founded. Válek was born in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia (now Zlín, Czech Republic), in 1963. He attended the Janáček (JAMU) in Brno, graduating in 1991 after studies in vocal music with Josef Pančík. Válek also took a conducting course with early music specialist Helmuth Rilling, organized by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and he rounded out his education with vocal courses from Marius van Altena at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was active for nearly 20 years as a chorus master with various top Czech choirs, and with one of those, the Czech Chamber Choir, he made his recording debut in 1995, leading a performance of Jan Dismas Zelenka's Requiem and Miserere on the Supraphon label. He toured Europe and led groups to prizes in important choral competitions. Válek also backed various leading conductors, including the Czech Republic's Jiří Bělohlávek and Frans Brüggen of the Netherlands, for choral and operatic performances and recordings. Válek is best known as the director of the Czech Ensemble Baroque, which he founded in 1998 and continues to conduct. That group, one of the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, focused on lesser-known Czech composers of the Baroque and Classical eras, including František Tůma and Franz Xaver Richter. For the group's membership, Válek drew on the ranks of professional musicians in not only the Czech Republic but also several other Eastern European countries. Válek has also conducted other orchestras, both in the modern-instrument realm (the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the Brno Philharmonic, and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic in Zlín, among others, cultivating an ongoing relationship with the latter) and historical performance groups (including Musica Aeterna Bratislava, Musica Florea, and Solamente Naturali Bratislava). In 2012, Válek founded Prague's Baroque Music Summer School, oriented toward teaching young singers oratorio performance techniques. Válek and Czech Ensemble Baroque made several recordings for Supraphon of music by Tůma and Richter. In 2023, he moved to the Aparté label to back countertenor Andreas Scholl on a collection of Tůma's music.
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