Monika Streitová

Flutist and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, she graduated from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts at the University of Bratislava, Slovakia, where in 2005 she completed her doctoral studies in Contemporary Music Performance (Thesis on Sublimation in the Music ‘Ad Libidum’.) Her current research interests focus on the observation and application of contemporary flute techniques that can contribute to the creative development of sonority. In 2006 his CD ‘Luminiscence’ received the highest honour from the critics of Radio 2, Czech Republic. In 2007 he was awarded an FCT grant to carry out post-doctoral scientific research at the University of Aveiro. During the years of this project he collaborated permanently with contemporary composers. She has worked with R. Berger, J. Y. Bosseur, D. MacMouline, B. Schaffer, J. Guillou and J. P. Oliveira, among others. The works of these composers have been performed at the most important international festivals of contemporary music. She has also given several lectures at the universities of UNRIO (Rio de Janeiro), UNESP (São Paulo), New York University (Abu Dhabi), the Lisbon School of Music, the University of Prague, the University of Ostrava and the University of Bratislava, among others. In 2009 she was a founding member of the ‘Post-ip’ team, the International Forum for Postgraduate Studies in Music and Dance at the University of Aveiro. Her repertoire includes around one hundred and forty world premieres. She has also worked with the BBC, ORF2 Vienna and BRB Berlin. She has recorded 6 solo CDs and 12 CDs with various musical groups. She has performed both in solo projects and in various formations in several countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, England, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Spain and Brazil, among others.