Musica Florea has long been among the most respected Czech ensembles performing early music and has made a major contribution to the international renaissance of interest in the music of the Czech Baroque master Jan Dismas Zelenka. In the past several years, however, the ensemble has been turning also to works by more recent composers, applying the principles of historically-informed performance in their interpretation. This pertains above all to Antonín Dvořák, the focus of a long-term project aimed at performance and then issue of recordings of all nine of his symphonies in authentic performances on period instruments or copies thereof, in the style of period performance practice.

An inseparable part of the Musica Florea ensemble is the choir Collegium Floreum, comprising professional singers, choirmasters, teachers, vocal coaches, and voice students sharing a deep interest in historically-informed interpretation and having experience from many ensembles and singing associations in Czechia and Slovakia.

Marek Štryncl may be considered one of the most versatile musicians in Czechia at the present time. His interests range from composing to playing the cello, choral and orchestral conducting, programming, and organizing. Best known is his work as artistic director of Musica Florea, which he founded in 1992 because of his interest in historically-informed performance of early music. He collaborates with many renowned soloists like Magdaléna Kožená and Phillipe Jaroussky and orchestras such as the Prague Philharmonia and Les Musiciens du Paradis. His recordings have won many prestigious international awards such as a Diapason d’Or in 1994 and a Cannes Classical Award in 2003. Of his return to an authentic manner of performing works by Dvořák he has said: ‘You’ll notice things you had no idea existed in Dvořák.’