Sax & Piano Duo Laura Vlková

Sax & Piano Duo

Laura Mikel Vlková

was born in 1973 in Jablonec nad Nisou. She grew up in a musical family and was taught how to play the piano from the age of six by Jana Diatková. She studied then at the Prague Conservatory under Jaroslav Čermák and is a graduate of the Academy of Musical Arts where she studied under Miroslav Langer. Apart from her solo carrier she has collaborated for a long time with the Prague Children’s Choir (dir. Č. Stašek), first as a singer and from 1987 as a pianist, with which she has done a number of radio, television and movie recording as well as many concerts abroad (France, England, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Holland, USA and Lebanon). In 1995, she collaborated with famous singers and actors to put on an original Czech musical DRACULA and in 2000 on the musical The Count of Montecristo. She currently teaches at Jaroslav Ježek´s Conservatory. She has cooperated with the theatres (e.g. a performance about Antonín Dvořák together with Oldřich Vlček, an actor at the National Theatre), television, and done film work as well as pursueing her solo carrier.

e-mail: vlkova@saxofon.cz