Tomáš Král

The baritone Tomáš Král (1983) studied voice at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts with Adriana Hlavsová and at master classes with Julie Hasler, Howard Crook, Sara Mingardo and Ivan Kusnjer a.o. Since 2005, he has been collaborating regularly with the ensembles Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Musica Florea, Capella Regia, Ensemble Inégal and Ensemble Tourbillon. He is a founding member of the ensemble Collegium Vocale 1704, with which he collaborated on the project Bach - Prague 2005 and at the festivals Prague Spring, Dresdner Festspiele, Festival de La Chaise Dieu, Festival de Sablé, Festival d’Ambronay, Tage Alte Musik Regensburg, Oude Muziek Utrecht, MA Brugge, Bozar and others. He also works occasionally with the ensembles Collegium Vocale Gent, Doulce Mémoire, L’Aura Soave di Cremona, Red Herings and Cinquecento.
Tomáš Král devotes himself also to opera and appeared as Uberto in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona with Collegium Marianum, Lisingo in Gluck’s Le Cinesi with Collegium 1704, Ernesto in Haydn’s Il mondo della Luna with Ensemble Baroque, as a guest at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc in an operatic production of Boccaccio (title role) and as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.
Tomáš Král has taken part in many highly recognized recordings especially with music of Jan Dismas Zelenka e.g. Missa votiva, Requiem & Officium defunctorum and Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta as well as in radio (Radio Klara, France Musique) and TV recordings (Arte, Mezze).