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Magdalena Kožená (b. 1973) is a Czech mezzo-soprano. She was born in Brno in 1973. After having studied at the Brno Conservatoire and at the College of Performing Arts in Bratislava, she graduated in 1995. In 1996-97 she was a member of the Vienna Volksoper. Miss Kožená’s recordings include Bach arias, Handel’s Roman Motets and Italian Cantatas and “Messiah” with Marc Minkowski for DG/Archiv, and her first solo recital disc (Dvořák, Janáček and Martinů with Graham Johnson - Gramophone Solo Vocal Award, 2001) for Deutsche Grammophon, with whom she has signed an exclusive contract. Her most recent discs are recitals...

Magdalena Solis was a Belgian music and visual project that was active between 2010-2013. Early recordings were released on a first EP Lady Of The Wild Things, a very hybrid collection of short instrumental songs. For the first full album Hesperia the multitude of influences were funneled into in a more worldly rock sound. The project was also know for its thought-provoking video work, and in 2012 the Hesperia video were released on a dvd. .