Václav Luks
conductor
© Petra Hajsk
Early music specialist Václav Luks is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut last season with a wonderful production of Agostino Steffani's Amor vien dal destino, for this new production of Handel's Ottone. He recently conducted Rameau's Platée at the National Theater in Prague, broadcast on TV by Arte. Recent recordings include works by Bohemian composers, such as Jan Dismas Zelenka and Hans Georg Benda. In 2005 he founded the Prague Baroque Orchestra Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704, with whom he has won many awards (including a Diapason d'Or and the German Recording Critics's Prize). He's been appearing regularly with the Händel & Haydn Society in Boston since 2021 and was Artist in Residence with the Chamber Academy in Potsdam from 2022 - 2025. He makes music with other leading orchestras including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Nederlands' Bachvereniging, the Academy for Early Music Berlin, Concerto Köln, the Salzburg Camerata, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, La Cetra Baroque Orchester in Basel and the Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Norwegian radio orchestras. He led the Orchestre National de France, with whom he has worked regularly since 2019, in a concert to raise money to restore Notre Dame to her former glory. The French radio station France Musique dedicated five episodes of their Grands interprètes de la musique classique series to him. He was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2022 for his cultural achievements.