Hana Blažíková

Born in Prague, Hana Blažíková started her singing with children choir Radost-Praha. Later she studied singing in the class of Jarina Smoláková-Svolinská, the Prague Conservatory in the class of Jiří Kotouč in 2002, and later undertook further study with Poppy Holden, Peter Kooij, Monika Mauch, and Howard Crook.
Hana currently specializes in the interpretation of Baroque, Renaissance, and medieval repertoires, and sings with the world-renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Collegium Vocale Gent, Bach Collegium Japan, Sette Voci, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, L’Arpeggiata, Tafelmusik, Gli Angeli Geneve, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Ensemble Masques, L’Armonia Sonora, as well as Czech, namely Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Tiburtina ensemble, Musica Florea, Cappella Mariana, Ensemble Inégal, Ensemble Tourbillon and others.
Hana Blažíková regularly performs at many international festivals, such as Prague Spring, Edinburgh International Festival, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Resonanzen, Festival de Sablé, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Arts Festival Hong-Kong, Chopin i jego Europa, Bachfest Leipzig, Concentus Moraviae, Festival de Saintes.
 In 2010 and 2013 she took part in a highly acclaimed tour with Bach´s St Matthew Passion conducted by Philippe Herreweghe. At Easter 2011 she sang St. John Passion with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and later that year she made her debut in Carnegie Hall with Masaaki Suzuki´s Bach Collegium Japan. In November 2014 performed with ensemble L’Arpeggiata in Bogota in opera Orfeo Chaman. 
Hana Blažíková has been invited twice to the Festival Chopin i jego Europa in Warsaw to sing songs of F. Chopin, R. Schumann, J. V. Tomášek a A. Dvořák, also with the pianist Andreas Staier. In year 2013 she recorded for this Festival complete Chopin vocal works.
In December 2014 she premiered with Orchestra Berg the piece The Lightning Speed of the Past, which was written especially for her by Michal Nejtek and in which she played the harp and bass-guitar.  
 Hana appears on more than 30 CDs, including the well-known edition of Bach’s complete cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan.
Hana Blažíková also plays gothic harp and presents concerts in which she accompanies herself on this instrument; she is a member of Tiburtina Ensemble, which specializes in Gregorian chant and early medieval polyphony.