Ada Slivanská

Executive Director of I-AME, long-standing chamber musician and concert producer, founder of Quartetto con flauto and organiser of international music projects.

Executive Director of I-AME, long-standing chamber musician and concert producer, founder of the ensemble Quartetto con flauto and organiser of international music projects.

She graduated from the Prague Conservatory in violin (class of Břetislav Ludvík) and composition (class of Jan Zdeněk Bartoš). For many years she studied violin privately with Professor Marie Hlouňová. In 1986 she completed her studies in musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague.

After a year with the Central Bohemian Symphony Orchestra in Poděbrady she joined the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (then the Symphony Orchestra of Czechoslovak Radio), where she played for twenty years before leaving in order to devote herself more fully to solo and chamber performance and to music management. From 2004 to 2009 she was a member of the orchestra of the Prague State Opera.

She has been dedicated to chamber music since her conservatory years. She is the founder of the chamber ensemble Quartetto con flauto, with which she has recorded four CDs, made numerous recordings for radio and television and toured extensively in many European countries and overseas. She has performed regularly throughout the Czech Republic and has been invited to international festivals.

Alongside her work as a performing violinist she teaches privately, and several of her pupils have gone on to continue their studies at conservatoires. In 2024–2025 she taught and served as head of the string department at the International Conservatory in Prague.

As a manager she has produced CDs and organised concerts, including her own subscription series. She has worked as artistic adviser to the Podblanický podzim festival and as manager of the Talich Chamber Orchestra and later the Czech Chamber Orchestra. From 1997 she collaborated on the Prague Horn – Lesní roh Praha festival, which later became part of the international festival Praha, klasika. From summer 2019 to September 2022 she was the manager of violinist Pavel Šporcl and of the ŠPORCL ARTS Agency.

From 1998 to 2021 she served as Executive Director of the international festival and chamber music courses Ameropa. After leaving this post she founded her own courses under the name I-AME in 2021, which she continues to develop with an international team of teachers and collaborators.