
Slovak soprano Eva Šušková graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she was a student of Viktória Stracenská, and she received her PhD in 2013 (Peter Mikuláš). Paralelly with her teaching and organizational activities she presents herself as a distinctive personality of chamber and concert artistic life, including various forms of music theatre.
She has portrayed several important characters, like Tatyana, Desdemona, Rusalka, Suzel and Fiordiligi, in Slovak opera houses and on stages abroad (Czech Republic, France, Austria, Poland). She has also presented monodramas Pierrot Lunaire (Arnold Schoenberg), The Raven (Toshio Hosokawa), The Bluebeard (Béla Bartók) and a chamber opera by George Benjamin Into the Little Hill in concert performances. She has performed and recorded J. N. Hummel’s opera Mathilde de Guise, as well as premiered seven original Slovak operas (e.g. Beneš, Kubička, Solovic, among others). She is well versed in a wide repertory, with the expert critique emphasizing her performing contribution to the works of the 20th century classics (Bartók, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Berio, Bernstein, Kurtág, etc.).
Eva is an ardent promoter of the Slovak music and thanks to her close collaboration with several composers she has become a sought-after performer of new pieces.
She is a holder of the Tatra banka Foundation Award in the category of Young Creator (2013), a double holder of the Radio_Head Awards for the best album of the year in the category of Classical Music (2015 and 2025), she has also been nominated several times for the same prize in categories of Experimental, Classical and Jazz Music, and she was awarded the Frico Kafenda Prize by the Music Fund Slovakia for her extraordinary performing artistic achievements (2016).
As a teacher she is part of the Superar project and is a member of the Albrechtina association.