Michaela Ambrosi is a flute and recorder player, pedagogue, and music researcher who brings great passion to all these fields. She graduated in modern flute from the Prague Conservatoire, where she studied under Jan Riedlbauch. In her final year at the conservatoire she met Jana Semerádová, whose playing enchanted her so deeply that she decided to pursue baroque flute studies with her within the Early Music Performance Practice programme at Charles University in Prague, Týn School – Collegium Marianum. Alongside these studies, she also continued to refine her recorder playing at the Prague Conservatoire under Jakub Kydlíček. She went on to study at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the renowned class of Wilbert Hazelzet and Kate Clark, where she had the opportunity to explore the performance practice of historical transverse flutes from the Renaissance to the Romantic era. She has also received guidance from many internationally respected flutists, including Lisa Beznosiuk, Rachel Brown, Jostein Gundersen, Christoph Hungeburth, Karl Kaiser, Barthold Kuijken, Marion Moonen, Michael Posch, Anne Pustlauk, Peter Reidemeister, Michael Schmidt-Casdorff, Ashley Solomon, and Jed Wentz. The final shaping of her musical language, however, was most profoundly influenced by Marcello Gatti, with whom she had the opportunity to study at the Conservatorio di Verona “Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco” and at the Mozarteum University Salzburg through the Erasmus programme. Her main scholarship support came from the Endowment Fund of Livia and Václav Klaus, and her classical flute was generously purchased for her by Adastra, s.r.o.
A major milestone in her career was performing in an educational project with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, conducted by the world-famous pioneer of historical performance, Frans Brüggen. Shortly afterwards she had the remarkable opportunity to perform with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman and completed a study internship with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London, in which she later appeared as a guest artist. She also greatly values her collaboration with the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO).
As a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player, she has appeared on many European stages with ensembles dedicated to early music, including Ars Antiqua Austria, Camerata Bachiensis, Collegium Marianum, Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Europa Galante, Feinstein Ensemble, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Musica Florea, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, The Amadè Players, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa, and others.
She is a co-founder of the ensembles Musica neglecta, Pro Arte Bohemica, and Musica Aldeana. In addition to CD recordings, she has participated in numerous radio and television productions, such as V. Vodička – Flute Sonatas, J. B. Krumpholtz – Sonatas for Harp and Flute, Ch. W. Gluck – Orfeo, S. Moniuszko – Halka, and W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni with Rolando Villazón, among others.
As part of her research and pedagogical activities, Michaela is frequently invited as a lecturer for seminars and courses, and she also works as an editor of eighteenth-century sheet music. n 2019, she received her doctorate for the dissertation "Jiří Čart – His Life and Works from the Perspective of the Performer" at the Music Faculty of
the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno under the supervision of Barbara Maria Willi. At the same institution, she has established herself as a teacher ofhistorical transverse flutes and serves as the secretary of the Department of Organ and Historical Interpretation. Between 2016 and 2019, she also taught recorder at the Brno Conservatoire.
Michaela is also engaged in a wide range of activities. She enjoys snowboarding and skiing, and in the past held a licence as a snowboarding instructor. Other favourite activities include sports such as cycling and swimming. She also loves reading classical literature, studying foreign languages, and learning about child pedagogy and psychology. Above all, she cherishes spending her free time with her husband, Marek, and their children, Zlatka and Artík.