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The Czech baritone, Tomáš Král, studied voice at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno under Adriana Hlavsová and at master-classes with Julie Hasler in Versailles, Howard Crook in Paris, Peter Schreier and Joel Frederiksen. By active participation courses and master-classes, he studied intensively the enlightened interpretation of early music and has regular consultations with I. Kusnjer.
Since 2005, Tomáš Král has been collaborating regularly with Czech ensembles Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Capella Regia, Ensemble Inégal. He has also collaborated with ensembles and orchestras like Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent (Director: Philippe Herreweghe), Doulce Mémoire (since 2008), Red Herring, L'Aura Soave di Cremona, Cinquecento, La Venexiana, Vox Luminis (Director: Lionel Meunier), Holland Baroque Orchestra, B'Rock Gent Orchestra, Gli Angeli Genève (Director: Stephan MacLeod), Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon). He is a member of Collegium Vocale 1704 (Director: Václav Luks) and they performed at the Prague Spring, Dresdner Festspiele, Festival de La Chaise, Festival de Sablé and within the concert cycle of Prague Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 he studied with Jana Semerádová with her Collegium Marianum the role of Umberto in comic intermezzo of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La serva Padrona - thus he had a possibility to present himself to the public at the international music festivals in the Czech Republic as well as abroad.
Tomáš Král has presented himself at concert places and the festivals Prague Spring, Dresdner Festspiele, Festival de La Chaise Dieu, Festival de Sablé, Festival d’Ambronay, Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Brugge, BOZAR in Brussels, Wien Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore hall, Wratislavia Cantans, Salzburger Festspiele, Musikverein in Vienna, Le Festival Bach de Montréal and elsewhere.
Tomáš Král also devotes himself to opera, as a guest at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc in an operatic production of Boccaccio (title role) and in W.A. Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte (as Guglielmo). In 2014, he took a part in the stage project with conductor Michael Hofstetter on scenic production of W.A. Mozart's Requiem and contemporary composer R. Van Schoor at Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hannover and the theater in Gießen. He also took a part of Ottokar at concert version of Weber's Freischütz at Styriarte Festival in Graz. In 2015, he took a part of main role Georg Philipp Telemann's adaptation of George Frideric Handel's opera Riccardo Primo in the theater in Gießen. In 2016, he took part in highly appreciated scenic production of J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) with B'Rock Gent Orchestra staged by Pierre Audi in Klara festival in Brussels, Wratislavia Cantans and Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam. Same year as well he took part of Apollo in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Opera of Dijon.
Tomáš Král has taken part in many highly recognized recordings with music of Jan Dismas Zelenka, J.S. Bach or L. Janáček’s Moravian Folk Songs; as well as in radio (France Musique, Radio Klara, Czech Radio) and TV recordings (Mezzo, Arte or Czech Television). He recorded the complete spiritual cantatas of the Czech Paroque composer J.A. Plánický with the Collegium of Gabriela Demeterová. |
