Organist and conductor Adam Viktora performs at music festivals throughout Europe, gives lectures and concerts at international organ congresses, serves as an advisor on expert committees for the restoration of important historic organs, and records for European radio and television stations.
He devotes special attention to historic organs and to initiatives aimed at their preservation and promotion. He is the founder and artistic director of the Czech Organ Festival. He teaches organ at the Pilsen Conservatory and historically informed performance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is the artistic director of Ensemble Inégal, with which he has recorded more than 20 repeatedly award-winning CDs and given countless performances at major European festivals, including Prague Spring, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Musica Antiqua Brugge, the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music London, Bachtage Leipzig, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, the Stockholm Early Music Festival, and others.
Adam Viktora has become the most prolific figure in the modern rediscovery of the works of the Czech Baroque genius Jan Dismas Zelenka. In concerts and across 17 CD recordings, he has presented nearly 50 of Zelenka’s compositions in modern premieres. He founded and organizes the international Zelenka Festival Prague – Dresden and has held seven editions of the musicological Zelenka Conference Prague. Together with Ensemble Inégal, he has received the prestigious French award Diapason d’Or four times.
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