Dr. Hana Blochová

Dr Blochová has studied the piano and the organ (9 years), the recorder and transverse flute (5 years), as well as singing (9 years). She mainly specialises in singing. D r Blochová is member of several Czech ensembles of early and folk music; since 1993, she has been the Art Director of Kvinterna; since 1992 she has served as Director of the International Early Music Festival held in Cesku Krumlov. Starting 1998 she holds the post of Music Director of the Prague early music club "Mystica"; she also assisted at the foundation of the KA centre (Prague Centre for the Ritual in Music and Arts); in the year 2000, she was appointed Music Director of the Prague Vrtba Baroque Garden cycles of early music concerts.

Arts and sciences
Dr Blochová received her degree from the Natural Sciences Faculty of the Charles University in Prague (1984), specialising in Artefact Conservation and Restoration. She then specialised as a critic (in Music and the Arts) at the J. E. Purkyne Faculty of Philosophy in Brno (1986) and subsequently went on to earn a Master's in Art History, specialising in the Middle Ages, at the same institution (1992). Dr Blochová has worked as Historian of Medieval Arts (Music, Painting, Philosophy and Liturgy) in Prague and the Southern Bohemia. Her main current focus is on Medieval Arts and Philosophy; she is also active as early music singer and musician.