Hornický pěvecký sbor Kladno

The Kladno Hornicky Choir has been operating since 1958, when it originally started in Stochov with 10 women and 4 men, the fifth man was its first conductor, the then music school teacher Miloš Chaloupka. Since its birth, the choir has been closely connected with mining and Kladno mines. It was created in a mining settlement, many singers worked in the surrounding mines in various mining professions, and the others usually had a mine employee at least among their relatives. Later, the choir moved to Kladno.

The choir collaborated on various occasions with masters of the spoken word, with actors of leading Czech theaters, let's name at least Radovan Lukavský, Josef Vinklář, Jan Kanyza or Otakar Brouska senior.

The choir performed dozens of concerts of opera works by Czech and international composers, in which leading singers of the National Theater opera scenes performed and the State Opera in Prague, the State Opera in Dresden, the J.K. Tylo Theater in Pilsen and others, except for Eduard Haken, e.g. Anna Bortlová, Jiřína Marková, Jana Jonášová, Bozena Effenberková, Jitka Soběhartová, Libuše Márová, Iveta Žižlavská, Dalibor Jedlička, Miroslav Kopp, Jiří Kalendovský, Jiří Kusý, Pavel and Jaroslav Horáčková and many others.