BIOGRAPHY

 

Lenka Nota (née Foltýnová)

Czech composer, musicologist, music publicist, manager and yoga teacher. She studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno under Prof. František Emmert. Her graduation concert (28 May 1997, Stadion Concert Hall, Brno) featured the orchestral work Kvítí milodějné / Love Awakening Flowers, performed by the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc conducted by Jaroslav Kyzlink.

Lenka actively promotes contemporary music and focuses her journalistic and creative work on women in the arts. A strong central theme drives each of her compositions; she often explores new expressive possibilities of the human voice, as well as ethnic sources – particularly Moravian folklore. Mythology, Christian sacred music, and Eastern philosophies (Buddhism, Hinduism) also influence her output, nurtured by her long‑term yoga practice.

Selected Workshops & Professional Activities

  • 2023 – Introduction to Voice Therapy, Sanne Storm & Signe Marie Lindstrøm (Prague, CZ)
  • 2022 – Circle Songs, Oskar Boldre & Costanza Sansoni Baratella (Prague, CZ)
  • 2020–2022 – online series Voice as Practice with Meredith Monk & Ensemble (New York, USA)
  • 2017 – Voice as Practice: Instrument of the Heart with Meredith Monk (Garrison Institute, USA)
  • since 1999 – member, Authors’ Rights Association (OSA), Czech Republic
  • 1998 – co‑founder, women‑composer group HUDBABY / MusiCrones; producer of two CDs (2003, 2009)
  • 1996 & 1997 – composition master‑classes, Marek Kopelent (Český Krumlov, with Sofia Gubaidulina, Viktor Suslin, Luis de Pablo)
  • 1992 – 1997 – organist, Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Brno, CZ)
  • 1991 – 1998 – member, theatre workshop of director Eva Tálská, Divadlo Husa na Provázku (Brno, CZ)
  • 1988 – 1998 – dulcimer player, folklore ensemble Brněnští gajdoši / Brno Bagpipers (Brno, CZ)

Festival Appearances

  • 32nd International Theatre Festival, Plzeň (CZ) – 2024
  • Smetana’s Litomyšl, Litomyšl (CZ) – 2022
  • Forfest, Kroměříž (CZ) – 1996, 2004, 2018
  • Controcanto Natale in Musica, Donne in Musica, Fiuggi & Rome (IT) – 2012
  • Setkávání Nové hudby Plus (Encounter of New Music Plus), Brno (CZ) – 2008
  • Blickpunkt Tschechien, Hannover & Cologne (DE) – 2006
  • Expozice Nové hudby (New Music Exposition), Brno (CZ) – 1997, 2005
  • Komponistinnen und ihr Werk, Kassel (DE) – 2005
  • Gegenwelten, Heidelberg (DE) – 2003
  • Mladé pódium (The Young Stage), Karlovy Vary (CZ) – 2002