Alena Hönigová

She completed harpsichord studies in the Prague Academy of Music, going on to her soloist´s diploma with Giedré Lukšaité Mrázková and Zuzana Růžičková in 1999. From 1999 to 2004 she pursued postgraduate studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis concentrating on the harpsichord, fortepiano, thoroughbass and improvisation. Her teachers were Andrea Marcon, Edoardo Torbianelli, Jesper Christensen, Gottfried Bach and Emmanuel le Divellec. Her special project was the collection “Hashirim ascher lischl´ lomo“ by Salamone Rossi, which she wrote a treatise on and recorded.
Together with the La Vinciolina ensemble, she won first prize in the “Gotha Competition“ at the Handel Festival in Göttingen in 2001. She began working as a rehearsal pianist at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the same year. In 2002 Alena Hönigova formed the Muscadin Baroque ensemble, with which she has premiered several contemporary works, including the chamber opera Racine´s Esther by Boris Yoffe in 2006.
As a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, she frequently collaborates with many early music ensembles and soloists. As recording artist, she appeared on numerous solo and chamber music CDs, such as “La primavera del barocco“ (Ars Musici AM1406-2), Johann Sebastian Bach: “Sonatas for flute and harpsichord” (Editions du Nopal), Salomone Rossi: “The Song of Solomon” (Panclassics, PC 10214), Jan Ladislav Dussek: “Werke für Fortepiano” (Koramant Records, KR 11001). She is the artistic leader of cycle of baroque concerts at “Dominikanska 8”.