Adam Viktora: I don't serve up well-known pieces
(c) Vojtěch Vlk Adam Viktora keeps coming up with surprises. Even though he and his Ensemble Inegal mainly focus on historically informed performance of early music, paying particular attention to the Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, he also embraces contemporary creation. He plays the organ, conducts, organises international conferences and other projects, and he is an amateur archaeologist to boot. This is an excerpt of an interview which is published here with a kind permission of the Czech Music Quaterly magazine 1/2017. When did the organist Adam Viktora begin dreaming of having his own ensemble, one mainly devoting to the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka? Before I began dreaming of forming my own ensemble, I actually had one. Everything went quite prosaically. Since I was 14 years of age, I had always had the opportunity to head several choirs, with whom I pursued that which I found alluring and of signifi cance, and I wanted to continue to foll...