Eva Šuškovà Biography
Eva Šušková – Slovak artist, teacher, performer and composer is profiled as a prominent personality in chamber and concert artistic life in Slovakia, not excluding various forms of musical theatre.
In the past, Eva Šuškovà has portrayed several important classical characters in Slovak opera houses and on foreign stages, such as Tatiana, Desdemona, Rusalka, Suzel, and Fiordiligi. She has also staged the monodramas Pierrot Lunaire and Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg, The Raven by Toshio Hosokawa, Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók, and the chamber opera Into the Little Hill by Georg Benjamin. She has also performed and recorded Hummel's opera Mathilde de Guise, as well as created the premieres of eight original Slovak operas (Beneš, Kubička, Solovic).
Eva Šušková has performed as a soloist at many domestic and foreign festivals, where she has collaborated with prominent conductors, orchestras, ensembles, art groups, and soloists. She has recorded for Brilliant Classics, Phaedra, Dynamic, Real Music House, Slovak Radio, Music Fund, Music Center, and other labels. She has participated in more than thirty CD recordings, seven of which are award-winning profile albums.
Her long-term profile has also been in original composition projects and music-theater performances. She has participated in projects with a unique artistic style – Der Turm zu Babel, Shaped Songs, Šušková / Adamčiak: Constellations / Permutations, and many others.
She systematically works with a children's audience, for whom she has created numerous original concerts, workshops, and music workshops. She collaborates with the international organization Superar, which brings high-quality, free music education to children from diverse backgrounds and systematically dedicates herself to the education of music teachers.
She is the recipient of the Tatra Banka Foundation Award for Art in the Young Artist category (2013), the Radio_Head Awards for the best album of the year 2015 and 2024 in the Classical Music category, several nominations for the same award in the experimental, classical and jazz music categories, the Frico Kafenda Award awarded by the Music Fund for exceptional interpretative artistic performances (2016), as well as the Special Award of the Radio_Head Awards 2024 for activities in the field of music pedagogy.
