Dagmar Šašková was born in Rakovník, Czech Republic, in 1978. She began her musical studies with Ludmila Kotnauerová at the Western Bohemian University in Pilsen (graduated in 2003). In 2002, she was awarded Second Prize at the Leoš Janáček International Competition in Brno and the Bohuslav Martinů Special Award. She further pursued her singing studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (Marta Beňačková class, 2006). In June 2008, Dagmar Šašková brought her studies in baroque vocal technique to a brilliant close at the Versailles Baroque Music Centre.

Dagmar Šašková frequently performs in concerts with orchestras such as the Versailles Baroque Music Centre, Akadêmia, Correspondances, Il Festino, La Fenice, La Rêveuse, Le Concert brisé, Les Paladins, Pygmalion, Le Poème Harmonique, Sagittarius, and Musica Florea. She took part in recordings of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s Sacred Stories and Pierre Robert’s Grands Motets with the Versailles Baroque Music Centre conducted by Olivier Schneebeli, as well as extracts from Opella Nova and Israelis Brünnlein by Johann Hermann Schein with the Sagittarius orchestra conducted by Michel Laplénie. She also recorded Dietrich Buxtehude’s Cantatas for Soprano with Le Concert brisé conducted by William Dongois, Italian Arias from the Time of Louis XIII of France and Arie da cantarsi by Stefano Landi with the Il Festino orchestra (Manuel de Grange), and Johann Sebastian Bach’s B-minor Mass with the Pygmalion orchestra conducted by Raphaël Pichon. More recent contributions to her discography include The Royal Night Concert with the orchestra Les Correspondances (Sébastien Daucè), Natale in Italia with La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), the motets La Majesté by Lalande with Le Poème Harmonique conducted by Vincent Dumestre, and finally Douce Félicité by Michel Lambert and Sébastien Le Camus, as well as the duos Donna by Monteverdi, both with the Il Festino orchestra (Manuel de Grange).

In 2010, Dagmar Šašková performed as Corisande in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s opera Amadis in a co-production between the Versailles Baroque Music Centre and the Avignon Theatre (direction Olivier Schneebeli), at the Avignon and Massy opera houses. In 2011, with Musica Florea under Marek Štryncl, she sang the role of Apollo in George Friedrich Händel’s Terpsicore in the baroque theatres of Český Krumlov and Mnichovo Hradiště in the Czech Republic. She also performed as Moschino, Ninfa, Rubanière, and Fleure in L’Egisto by Marco Marazzoli and Virgilio Mazzocchi, conducted by Jérôme Correas (Les Paladins), at the Massy Opera House and the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, in Cergy-Pontoise, etc. In 2013, she sang Melanto in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi, conducted by Jérôme Correas (Les Paladins), in Massy, Théâtre Gérard-Philipe Saint-Denis, Reims, Nice, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, etc. She then left for New Delhi to sing Ninfa in Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Akadêmia conducted by Françoise Lasserre (also at the Cité de la Musique in Paris). In 2014, with the orchestra La Fenice under Jean Tubéry, Dagmar Šašková interpreted the title role of Dido in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Lyon and Uzès (concert version). In 2016, she went on tour to South Korea, where she sang the role of Judith in Marc Antoine Charpentier’s Sacred Stories accompanied by the Versailles Baroque Music Centre (direction Olivier Schneebeli, stage director Ana Yepes). On the French tour of Orfeo par-delà le Gange in 2016, she sang La Musica and La Messaggiera on the stage of the Arsenal in Metz and at the Reims Opera. In 2018, she interpreted five roles in L’Europe galante by André Campra at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, with La Simphonie du Marais under Hugo Reyne. She sang Aurora in the opera Il mondo alla rovescia by Baldassare Galuppi at the Grand Avignon Opera and at the Philharmonie de Paris, with the Akadêmia orchestra conducted by Françoise Lasserre.

Dagmar Šašková also occasionally performs with other Czech artists, for example the organist Kateřina Chroboková, with whom she gives regular recitals of baroque music. With the pianist Vendula Urbanová, she gave a series of concerts of 19th- and 20th-century Czech music (Romanticism) at the Czech Centre in Paris.

Further information about Dagmar Šašková can be found at:

https://www.dagmarsaskova.com

Level Of Skills Required

Advanced & professionals

Maximum number of students

8

Teaching Languages

Czech, English, French