About me

Gabriela Vávrová is a Slovak soprano singer and saxophonist.

She began her vocal studies at the Bratislava Conservatory in Slovakia and continued her studies at the University of Ostrava with Tatiana Teslya. Through the Erasmus programme she studied for a year at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she studied under prof. Jadwiga Rappe and prof. Anna Mikolajczik.

She studied saxophone at the conservatory (in Bratislava) with Dušan Húšťava and prof. Alexander Stepanov.

After her studies, she had done a traineeship at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she worked with prof. Cinzia Alessandroni.

During her studies at the conservatory, she took part in opera studio and performed the role of Gretchen in E. Humperdinck’s opera Hänsel und Gretchen. When studying at the university she made her debut at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava in an opera by Maurice Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges in the roles of Mother and Dragonfly. She also collaborated with the National Theatre choir of Ostrava in the opera Tannhäuser.

While she continued her studies at university, she had also worked as a singing teacher at the elementary music school Studénka in the Czech Republic and later as a saxophone teacher at the elementary music school Holíč in Slovakia.

Her repertoire includes classical music as well as some jazz standards. However, she enjoys most sacred music, studying and interpreting Gregorian chant.

Since October 2024 part of the Cappella Giulia, the historic liturgical choir of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, as a singer in solemn celebrations.