Václav Luks
conductor
© Petra Hajsk
Early music specialist Václav Luks, making his debut at Oper Frankfurt conducting this new production of Agostino Steffani's Amor vien dal destino, completed a three year Artist‘s Residency at the Chamber Academy in Potsdam in 2025. In 2005 he founded the Prague Baroque Orchestra Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 who have since appeared with him at renowned festivals and famous European venues including ones in Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Warsaw and London, with singers including Magdalena Kožená, Philippe Jaroussky and Andreas Scholl. Collegium 1704 recordings have received accolades including the Trophées, a Diapason d'Or and the German Recording Critics's Prize. He has been appearing as a guest conductor with the Händel & Haydn Society in Boston since 2021 and works with other leading orchestras including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Nederlands' Bachvereniging, Camerata Salzburg, the Academy for Early Music Berlin, Concerto Köln, La Cetra Barockorchester in Basel, the Pygmalion Ensemble, Dresden Chamber Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the SWR and hr (Hessen Radio) symphony orchestras. He conducted 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.