Ridina Ahmedová is a established figure on the Czech music scene.
She currently performs solo and also in a duo with Petr Tichý as Hlaskontrabas Duo (nominated for the Anděl Award in 2016) and Hlaskontrabas Oktet (winner of the Czech Radio poll of music critics for best jazz album Česká jazzová sklizeň, nominated for the Anděl Award in 2024) – www.hlaskontrabas.cz
She is the author and co-author of music for a number of dance and movement performances and has contributed to the music for several films. She founded and runs Hlasohled, a center for he human voice (www.hlasohled.cz) . She also creates audio documentaries, which have won numerous awards (the series Odpustit? was nominated for best European audio documentary at the Prix Europa awards) – www.mujrozhlas.cz/odpustit
She collaborates on a number of theater and interdisciplinary projects and has performed at many festivals in clubs in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Projects and collaborations – selection:
- Page blanche – dance performance by Ladji Kone (Burkina Faso), music and sound design Ridina Ahmedová (Czech republic) choreography by Jerome Andrieu (France), stage design Michaela Solnická (Czech republic) – premiere in May 2025, Rencontres choreographiques, Paris
-HLASkontraBAS octet project 2024 – release of the album Kaleidoscapes, nominations mentionned above. - audio documentary series Odpustit? (Forgive?), shortlisted for the Prix Europa European awards, and awarded as the Discovery of the Year – Podcast of the Year, shortlisted for the Prix Bohemia Radio award
- Rekni mi (tell me) – a capella performance – we are the sound mirror of night dreams and rememberings of the listeners. www.rekni-mi.cz
- Audio documentary podcast Sádlo (Fat) – about life in a body that does not correspond to the expectations of those around you, 6 episodes, premiere in January 2021 on ČRO (over 300,000 downloads) – 2nd prize at Bohemia Prix Radio, Františka Plamínková award
- Solo performance “Sádlo – a performance for one woman and many opinions from those around her,” created in collaboration with Tantehorse, premiere in December 2020, Palác Akropolis – nominated or the Česká divadelní DNA awards
- Musical collaboration on the Post Bellum Paměť jsme my (Memory is Us) project, 2020, 2023 and 2025
- creation of music and sound design for an international dance project produced by fest. Tanec Praha Eymen – Point of view (Czech Republic/Ghana) – premiere in June 2019
- member of the duo HLASkontraBAS together with double bassist Petr Tichý – www.hlaskontrabas.cz
- Founder and leader of the Hlasohled project – a center for working with the human voice (www.hlasohled.cz)
- Released her solo album Hlasem (2006), collaborated on a number of other music projects (Floex, Monika Načeva, Vladimir 518, and others)
- Guest at Bobby McFerrin‘s concert in Prague, with whom she sang a duet
- Collaboration with Matěj Kroupa on music for a number of theater performances (Dejvické divadlo) and on music for the 2017 Memory of the Nation Awards project
- Collaboration with J. P. Muchow on the music for the film Pusinky, directed by Karin Babinská
- Collaboration with Vladimír Merta on the music for the film Famfárum II
Collaboration on a number of theater projects by the Continuo Theater