ENSEMBLES 2010
Janka Rychlá
Conductor
Janka Rychlá studied pianism on Conservatory in Žilina and choral conducting in the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. During her studies she attended a six- month-stay in Paris studying courses of polyphonic music lectured by prof. Philippe Caillard and participated in the well-known Prof. Eric Ericson´s courses of conducting.
After her university studies, she was a conductor and an art director of the Children and Youth Choir of the Slovak Radio from 1985 until 2003. With this choir she succeeded to make recordings of many pieces in Radio, and in a cooperation with the Radio Orchestra, she was representing a culture abroad, performing in various concerts, international festivals and competitions (in France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc.). She cooperated with Opera DJGT Theatre in Banska Bystrica. She has been participating in a number of courses of conducting in France.
Since July 2003 until 2004 she was working as a chorus master at European Academy of Chorister in Pyrenees, in France. In 1990 she was working as a chorus master of the Slovak Philharmonic Choir. Having experienced a work of pianiste in DJGT Theatre in Banská Bystrica, choirmaster in Slovak Philharmonie in Bratislava, she has cooperated with many of choirs in Slovakia and Czech Republic.
In 2004 she founded Pressburg Singers and since that time she has been working as its art supervisor and conductor, performing on various stages, concerts and international competitions (in Croatia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Poland and Czech Republic). Among recent successes, the first place and the second place in the different categories within the international competition named Musica Sacra held in 2006 can be mentioned.
Since February 2008 Pressburg Singers has cooperated with the Opera of Slovak National Theatre, participating in pieces of Boris Godunov by Musorgsky and Hry o Márii by Bohuslav Martinu.
