Duo Nana

With singer Helena Tamelová we started to work together in 2011. We both are students of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Originally we established our duo because of schoolwork. Soon we decided to perform together outside the walls of Academy. Combination of guitar and singing in classical music brings many options in work with various means of expression. We choose repertoire with the right portion of interpretative challenges but attractive for the audience equally.

Helena Tamelová (soprano) comes from Polička town. She begun to study singins at Basic School of Art here. Since 2002 to 2008 she studied at Pardubice Conservatory in the class of Martina Forštová. Since 2008 she has been studying at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno with professor Marta Beňačková and later also with prof. Jaroslava Janská. In 2013 she became a laureate in the international vocal competition “Ad honorem Mozart” in Prague. She participates in many master courses and workshops which are mostly leading by the famous opera singers, i.e. Tom Krause (Finland), Peter Dvorský (Slovakia) and Gabriela Beňáčková, Kateřina Beranová (Czech Republic).

In the Chamber Opera of the Music Faculty of JAMU she worked up plenty a variety of opera roles (i.e. Tatiana in Eugen Oněgin – P. I. Čajkovskij, Luigia in Viva la Mamma – G. Donizetti, Armanda in Twice Alexander – B. Martinů, Jelena Ivanovna Popova in Medvěd – Ivo Jirásek and others).

Her solo repertoire includes the pieces from opera, operetta, oratorio and the song cycles too. She is member of the vocal ensemble Forte and the vocal-intrumental ensemble Rebelcanto, with whom she performs at the concerts in the Czech Rep. and abroad (Germany, Great Britain).