Martina Bernášková

Specialist in Baroque and Classical music, member of leading early music ensembles and teacher at the Jan Deyl Conservatory, the International Conservatory in Prague and a music school in Prague 10.

Martina Bernášková studied flute at the Conservatoire and subsequently at the Academy of Music in Bratislava in the classes of Professors V. Samec and M. Jurkovič. During her studies she also devoted herself to the recorder and baroque transverse flute. While still a university student she became a laureate of the Concertino Praga competition and was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado.

At the age of eighteen she joined the ensemble Musica Aeterna, gaining valuable concert experience and inspiration. Since 1994 she has been deeply engaged in the interpretation of Baroque and Classical music. From 1996 to 1998 she studied baroque flute with Professor Philippe Sechet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), graduating with a Premier Prix (First Prize).

She performs regularly with leading early music ensembles such as Musica Aeterna, Collegium Marianum, Ensemble Inegal, Solamente Naturali and others, appearing at concerts and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad. She is also a tutor at the La Pellegrina summer music courses. Martina teaches at a music school in Prague 10, at the Jan Deyl Conservatory and International Conservatory Prague. At I-AME she teaches transverse and recorder flute with a particular focus on historically informed performance practice.