The Prague Chamber Choir was originally established as a select chamber ensemble consisting of former members of the Prague Philharmonic Choir. In 1991 it became an independent choir that was known mainly on the international scene. It has performed at dozens of festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Hamburg Musikfeste, and the Stuttgarter Musikfest. For several years, it was the regular ensemble-in-residence at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, and at Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera. It has given more than 300 performances and tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and Israel. Its chief choirmasters have been Josef Pančík and Jaroslav Brych, while several other important choral conductors have also worked with the choir, including Pavel Kühn, Lubomír Mátl, Robert Hugo, and Miriam Němcová. The choir has made dozens of recordings for renowned domestic and foreign labels (such as Orfeo, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Supraphon), and it has worked with leading conductors and singers (including Zubin Mehta, Manfred Honeck, Helmuth Rilling, and Plácido Domingo).

Lenka Navrátilová studied piano under Prof. Jaroslav Čermák and harpsichord under Prof. Rudolf Zelenka at the Teplice Conservatoire and choral conducting of sacred music under Prof. Jiří Kolář and Prof. Marek Štryncl at Charles University. She is a professor of opera coaching at the Prague Conservatoire, and she is an accompanist and rehearsal pianist of the Prague Philharmonic Choir. She has engaged in long-term cooperation with the Prague Chamber Choir and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra Mixed Choir, and she is a choirmaster of the Kühn Choir of Prague. She has conducted concerts with the choir at the Dvořák Prague Festival, Musica Holešov, and the Saint Wenceslas Festival. As a choirmaster, she has taken part in concerts of the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Berg Orchestra, the Antonín Dvořák Music Festival in Příbram, Film Music Prague, the Prague Proms, and concerts produced and presented by Radio Classic. She has also rehearsed the choir for opera productions at the National Theatre. On programmes of the concert series of the Kühn Choir of Prague, she has given several world premieres of choral works. As the assistant choirmaster of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, she has appeared on concert tours in Doha and Berlin and at the opera festival in St. Gallen.

From childhood, the pianist, singer, and teacher Ahmad Hedar sang in the Pueri Gaudentes choir. He completed his piano studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the studios of Martin Kasík and František Malý. He has taken part in many masterclasses, including one led by Paul Badura-Skoda. He has worked as an opera coach with leading singers of the younger generation, including Petr Nekoranec, Kateřina Kněžíková, and Roman Hoza as well as with opera legends like Gabriela Beňačková and Eva Randová. In 2016 he took the prize for best piano accompaniment at the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. He is a member of Run OpeRun, which brings opera to a young public and to the general public at unusual venues. With them, he has rehearsed productions of The Magic Flute, Le nozze di Figrao, Rusalka, and La voix humaine. In 2019 he earned a fellowship from the prestigious Bayreuther Festspiele. In addition to playing piano, he also devotes himself to both operatic and non-classical singing. Since 2019 he has been teaching at the Jan Deyl Conservatory.

Kateřina Ochmanová has won several prizes in various categories at several national competitions for students at elementary performing arts schools. At the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she graduated from Ivo Kahánek’s piano studio. She has taken part in many masterclasses and was selected as a participant at a masterclass in Leipzig with Angela Hewitt, known around the globe for her interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach. She spent a year studying at the Dresden College of Music in the studio of Arkadi Zenzipér under the Erasmus programme. She has also studied chamber music both abroad (in Paris and Vienna) and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She has won several prizes for collaborations at the piano, and together with Martin Smutný she won second prize and a special prize for the best performance of a work by Antonín Dvořák at the International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos in Jesenik. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras, including the Czech Chamber Philharmonic in Pardubice and the Janáček Chamber Orchestra. She is a founding member of the ensemble Quasi Trio, which appears regularly on Czech concert stages.

Soprano Tereza Hořejšová is a graduate of the Pardubice Conservatory and of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is a laureate of several international competitions and twice was a winner of the Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary in the Junior and Song categories. She was also a successful participant at the Éva Marton International Singing Competition in Budapest and the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Deutschlandsberg. For a year, she studied in Milan at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire, where she introduced herself in the contemporary opera Valentina by Arturs Maskats, in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and in Verdi’s La traviata. In the last two years, she has been touring Germany and Switzerland regularly as the First Lady (The Magic Flute) and Anna (Nabucco). She has made guest appearances in Liberec in the role of Ciboletta (Night in Venice) and the Second Wood Sprite (Rusalka). She works regularly as a freelance artist with the Prague Philharmonic Choir, and besides singing, she devotes herself to playing piano and working as an opera coach. She has a great passion for recitals with piano, especially in the Czech and foreign song literature.

From 2006 to 2010 Raman Hasymau studied choral conducting at the Minsk Conservatoire, then he spent four years studying classical singing at the Prague Conservatoire. Since 2018 he has been furthering his education at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he is studying opera singing. He worked first as a choral singer and later as a soloist with the Belarusian Philharmonic. As a student at the Prague Conservatoire, he sang the role of Vulcan in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera Psyché and the role of Miloš in the opera The Black Lake by Josef Richard Rozkošný, then during his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague he appeared as Jeník in Smetana’s Bartered Bride and as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. At the Olomouc Baroque Festival he sang the role of General Parmenion in Tomáš Hanzlík’s opera Lacrimae Alexandri Magni (The Tears of Alexander the Great), and this year he toured Germany as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute.