Portrait of the composer Luboš Mrkvička. CD / Digital download / Free streaming Luboš Mrkvička (*1978) Mrkvička has taught at the composition department at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) since 2006, teaching composition and theoretical subjects focused on 20th-century compositional techniques. Since 2006, he has...

Portrait of the composer Milan Guštar. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1963) Milan Guštar is a composer, artist, organologist, builder of electronic and electro-acoustic devices, and programmer. He is involved in interdisciplinary research on the boundaries of science, technology, and art, particularly in regard to mathematical and generative principles...

Portrait of the composer Luboš Mrkvička. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1942) Miloš Štědroň is a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He studied musicology and Czech literature at the Faculty of Arts of the J. E. Purkyně University in Brno and composition at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts. He has...

Portrait of the composer Pavel Zemek. Listen to an excerpt on Bandcamp. Would you like to get this CD? Send us an e-mail. (*1957) Pavel Zemek (legal name Pavel Novák) is one of the few composers of whom we can say with certainty that he is marked by an exceptional...

Portrait of the composer Petr Cígler. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1978) Petr Cígler is a composer, horn player, and chemist. Though he has no formal education in composition, he has devoted himself to it in collaboration with performers and festivals. For him, music counterbalances his vocation in science...

Portrait of the composer Miroslav Pudlák. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1961) CD 1. Intonarumori Concerto (2018) .. 19:07 Opening Performance Orchestra – intonarumori, BERG Orchestra conducted by Peter Vrábel 2. Nocturne (1999) .. 7:21 Lenka Šimková – flute, Kamil Doležal – clarinet, Zdeňka Pelikánová – violin, Jiří Richter – viola...

Portrait of the composer Slavomír Hořínka. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1980) A composer who works and lives in Prague with his wife and four children. His music is focused primarily on a reduction of means and transparency of structure. He often uses melodic lines, harmonies, or rhythms derived...

Portrait of the composer Vít Zouhar. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1966)   A Czech composer and musicologist who lectures at the PalackýUniversity in Olomouc. He studied composition at JAMU and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz and musicology at the Masaryk University.He has composed six...

Portrait of the composer Ivo Medek. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1956) Ivo Medek has created more than 50 orchestral, chamber and electro-acousticcompositions, including five operas and feature-length multimedia projects. A numberof his works have been performed on prominent stages and at festivals in Europe, America and Asia (Warsaw...

Portrait of the composer Petr Kotík. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1942)   The composer, conductor and flutist Petr Kotík was educated in Prague and Vienna. In 1961, while at the Prague Conservatory, he founded the ensemble Musica viva pragensis (with which he performed until 1964) and, after returning...

Portrait of the composer Ivana Loudová. CD / Digital download / Free streaming  (*1941) Ivana Loudová studied composition at the Prague Conservatory with Miloslav Kabeláč and at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing arts (HAMU) with Emil Hlobil, where she continued as a postgraduate, again with Kabeláč. In 1971 she...

Portrait of the composer Michal Rataj. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1975) The composer, producer and pedagogue Michal Rataj graduated in musicology from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (1999) and in composition from the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (2003), having...

Portrait of the composer Jiří Kadeřábek. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1978) Jiří Kadeřábek was born in Zlín, Czech Republic into an arts-loving family. At the beginning, he was also significantly influenced by the strong and living Moravian folk tradition. He played, sang and, later on, composed jazz...

Portrait of the composer Hanuš Bartoň. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1960) The composer, pianist and pedagogue Hanuš Bartoň enrolled in 1975 at the Prague Conservatory to study composition (with Ilja Hurník) and piano (with Emil Leichner). From 1981 to 1986 he attended the Music Faculty of the...

Portrait of the composer Petr Kofroň. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1955) Titan Symphony (2005) 74:30 1. I .. 21:26 2. II .. 24:24 3. III .. 28:36 Agon Orchestra, cond. Petr Kofroň Live performance at the Archa theatre, Prague, 17 November 2005 (recording edited by Petr Kofroň) CD is...

Portrait of the composer Michal Nejtek. CD / Digital download / Free streaming (*1977) Born in Litoměřice, studied composition and the piano at the Teplice Conservatory, from which he graduated with George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, accompanied by the North Bohemia Philharmonic Orchestra Teplice. He continued to study composition at...