The audience and critics appreciate Barbora for her poetic interpretation and musical feeling, and she is one of the leading Czech solo harpists of the younger generation. She won awards in national and international harp and chamber competitions in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Belgium. As a concert artist, Barbora presented herself all over Europe and the world (Asia, Mexico…). She regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras and chamber ensembles both in the Czech Republic and abroad. In addition to the Belgian King Albert II. in 2017 she also played for King Harald V of Norway for his 80th birthday. Her performances have been recorded on national and international radio programs.
Thanks to her musical versatility, she played jazz with many leading jazz musicians in the Czech Republic (David Dorůžka, Luboš Soukup, Jan Jirucha…) and in Norway (Silje Nergaard, Helge Sunde, Morten Gunnar Larsen…). With the ensemble SALOME – Band of songs by Karel Kryl for voice, harp, clarinet and guitar, she performed over 170 concerts throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She performed at prestigious music festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad.
She played with many important classical artists, e.g. with Václav Hudeček, Petr Nouzovský, Eli Kristin Hansveen, Magnus Staveland and others. In Oslo, she is a member of the band +47, playing contemporary Scandinavian music. He works closely with important composers to expand the solo harp repertoire, e.g. with Kjell Habbestad, Marcus Paus, etc. who dedicated it to their composition. The harp repertoire also tries to expand with its transcriptions by Czech romantic authors such as Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Josef Suk and Zdenek Fibich. These arrangements began to be published in 2020 in a special sheet music edition “Czech Romantic Music for Harp”.
Thanks to her passion for teaching young people, she founded the Arpeggio Harp School in 2009 and the Norsk Harpe Academi in Oslo in 2017. From 2021, she works at the Music Gymnasium hl. city of Prague. Her students regularly win national and international harp competitions and Barbora is often invited to their juries.
As one of the few female harpists from around the world, she intensively devotes herself to the historically informed interpretation of late baroque and classic music on an authentic 18th century single-notched harp. He plays on a unique French Louis XVI harp from 1779 by the harpists Renault & Chatelain, which was in Marie Antoinette’s court, and on this harp he mainly interprets the works of Czech classical composers. In February 2020, her solo debut CD with music by Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz and Jan Ladislav Dusík was released on this harp by ArcoDiva. He also collaborates with ensembles playing old music on original instruments here and abroad. In addition to the single-notched harp, he plays the modern Canopée pedal harp of the French company Camac and jazz and blues on the Blue Harp of the same manufacturer.
In 2011, Barbora founded the Arpeggio/Harfy Camac Czech Republic harp studio (the only authorized distributor of French Camac harps for the Czech Republic and Slovakia). In 2014, she founded the Prague Harp Festival, where she is the artistic director.
She graduated from the Prague Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory in Brussels in the class of Jana Boušková and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in the class of the French harpist, Isabelle Perrin. She also perfected her art at masterclasses or regular lessons with important musicians such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Andrew Manze, Knut Johanessen, Wolfgang Plagge, Leif Ove Andsnes, Masumi Nagasawa, Sylvain Blassel, Chantal Mathieu and others.
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