Markéta Irglová

What moves me about Markéta Irglová is how much weight she carries with so little volume. She was barely out of her teens when Falling Slowly won the Oscar, yet there is nothing precocious or showy about her music. It is piano, breath, and an almost devotional quiet. I admire that she never chased the spotlight that Once handed her, instead settling in Iceland to build her own intimate body of work. That refusal to inflate herself is rare. She is an artist I trust to age beautifully, and I keep returning to her because the restraint is the point.

Name (English)

Markéta Irglová

Name (Japanese)

マルケータ・イルグロヴァー

Reading

まるけーた・いるぐろゔぁー

Born

February 28, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Valašské Meziříčí, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Occupation

pianist / singer / singer-songwriter / film score composer / film actor

Awards & achievements

• 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song

• Official sitehttp://marketairglovamusic.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/marketa_irglova/
• Xhttps://x.com/MarIrglovaInfo
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%C3%A9ta%20Irglov%C3%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235737

Tags

• Zlín Region
• pianist
• singer
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.