Miloslava Vítková
Choir conductor and teacher of solo singing and music education at the Gymnasium and Music School of the City of Prague, director of the women’s choir Bubureza.
Miloslava Vítková is a choir conductor, music educator and soprano. She comes from a musical family – her father Josef Fousek was for many years a percussionist, and her uncles Václav Slivanský and Jiří Fousek played in the Prague State Opera and in the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK.
She studied at the Aesthetic-Education / Evropská Gymnasium in Prague and went on to read Music Education and Choral Conducting at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. She studied singing at the Music School of the City of Prague with Magdalena Bělohlávková and later with Simona Procházková at the Plzeň Conservatory. During her studies she won a number of prizes in solo and chamber singing, including first prize at the Imrich Godin International Vocal Competition and first prize at the Olomouc Singing Competition.
In 2003 she founded the mixed Scout choir Cantuta, which she conducted until 2015. From 2006 to 2010 she worked as a conductor of the preparatory department of the Kühn Children’s Choir. In 2008 she founded the women’s chamber choir Bubureza, with which she has achieved major success at national and international competitions and festivals such as FSU Jihlava, Praga cantat, Bratislava Cantat and Slovakia Cantat. In 2012 she founded the Children’s Cathedral Choir at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, which she led for many years and with which she regularly took part in the cathedral’s liturgical music.
She has taught choral singing at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and music at the Nad Štolou Gymnasium in Prague. Since 2008 she has been teaching music theory at the Gymnasium and Music School of the City of Prague. She has worked with NIPOS–ARTAMA as a specialist in children’s choral singing, organising regional and national festivals and serving as a regular lecturer at choral conducting seminars, as well as a jury member at choral competitions.
Vítková focuses in particular on contemporary choral repertoire, often premiered within the Days of Contemporary Music festival. She is also the author of numerous articles and reviews on choral music published in Cantus and other specialised magazines.
