48 Notable alumni of
Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
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The Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno is 568th in the world, 213th in Europe, and 5th in the Czech Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Vladimír Menšík
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- narratorfilm actorcomedianstage actortelevision actor
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Vladimír Menšík was a Czech actor and entertainer. He is considered one of the greatest Czech comedians, storytellers and improvisers.
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Pavel Trávníček
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- directortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Pavel Trávníček is a Czech actor. He has appeared in more than 70 film and television productions since 1971, most of them produced in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, occasionally in Germany.
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Bolek Polívka
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- playwrightdirectoractorclownfilm actor
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Boleslav Polívka is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright, and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 40 films.
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Hana Zagorová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1968
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- film actorstage actorlyricistactorsinger
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Hana Zagorová was a Czech singer, actress and presenter. She recorded music since 1964 and is considered to be one of the most famous Czech singers. She won the national Zlatý slavík music award on nine occasions between 1977 and 1985, the second highest number of victories in the award's history, after Lucie Bílá, who won the successor award, Český slavík, thirteen times.
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Dagmar Havlová
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Dagmar Havlová is a Czech actress and former First Lady of the Czech Republic. She has appeared in over 50 films and made hundreds of television appearances. She became First Lady upon marrying Václav Havel, the former Czech President, on 4 January 1997.
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Jiří Bartoška
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Jiří Bartoška was a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in Sekal Has to Die (1998), All My Loved Ones (1999), and Tiger Theory (2016), as well as the television series Sanitka (1984) and Neviditelní (2014).
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Josef Somr
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Josef Somr was a Czech actor. He was noted for starring in the Oscar-winning 1966 film Closely Watched Trains, as well as in The Joke.
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Karel Heřmánek
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- actortelevision actortalent managerfilm actorvoice actor
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Karel Heřmánek was a Czech actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1976 and 2008, including the role of Lucifer in 1984's S čerty nejsou žerty (Give the Devil His Due).
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Petra Hřebíčková
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied acting
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- actor
- Biography
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Petra Hřebíčková is a Czech stage and film actress. Her film debut was in the 2006 comedy I Served the King of England. On stage, she acted for six years at the Zlín City Theatre between 2003 and 2009, during which time she was named the Best Actress in a Play at the 2008 Thalia Awards. Following her Thalia award, she has appeared in television series and films including Kawasaki's Rose (2009) and Men in Hope (2011). Since 2010 she has been a regular member of the theatre at Prague's Švandovo divadlo.
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Eliška Balzerová
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Eliška Balzerová is a Czech actress. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 1971. She became widely known for the role of physician Alžběta Čeňková in the television series Hospital at the End of the City and Hospital at the End of the City After Twenty Years. She also appeared in films such as Fists in the Dark and Run, Waiter, Run!. In 2010, she received the Czech Lion Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Miroslav Donutil
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriterwriterfilm actor
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Miroslav Donutil is a Czech theatrical, film and television actor, born in Třebíč. Since 1978 when he appeared as Hloch in Čistá řeka, Donutil has been making film and TV appearances. He dubbed the voice of Kevin Costner and Gérard Depardieu.
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Jitka Čvančarová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts in musical acting
- Occupations
- singeractor
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Jitka Čadek Čvančarová is a Czech actress, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and a patron of charity organization Debra CR. Čvančarová won four Thalia Award nominations.
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Eva Pilarová
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- pop singeractorsingerphotographer
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Eva Pilarová, née Bojanovská was a Czech jazz and pop music singer.
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Květa Fialová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1946-1950
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- dub actorstage actornon-fiction writeractorfilm actor
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Květa Fialová was a Czech actress. She was best known for her performance in Lemonade Joe.
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Ondřej Havelka
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- musicianfilm directorjazz musiciansingeractor
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Ondřej Havelka is a Czech jazz and swing singer, actor, and director. He began his musical career singing with the jazz band Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra in 1976 and went on to form his own group, Ondřej Havelka a jeho Melody Makers, in 1995. He has worked as an actor since the 1970s, and he is the director of several documentary films as well as the 2018 feature Hastrman.
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Pavel Zedníček
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- actortelevision actorfilm actordub actorstage actor
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Pavel Zedníček is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1976 and 2011.
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Jiří Dvořák
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- dub actoractor
- Biography
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Jiří Dvořák is a Czech actor. He starred in the film Operace Silver A under director Jiří Strach in 2007.
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Hana Holišová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied acting
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- actor
- Biography
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Hana Holišová is a Czech actress and singer. At the 2012 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Musical.
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Pavel Liška
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- actorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm actorvoice actor
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Pavel Liška is a Czech actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1997.
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Felix Slováček
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- conductorsaxophonistcomposerjazz musicianclarinetist
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Felix Slováček is a Czech clarinetist, conductor, film composer, and saxophonist. He is married to the actress Dagmar Patrasová.
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Ladislav Frej
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Ladislav Frej is a Czech actor and voice actor.
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Václav Neužil
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- actor
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Václav Neužil is a Czech actor.
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Jana Švandová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1971
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Jana Švandová is a Czech actress. She has appeared in more than 65 films and television shows since 1969.
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Arnošt Goldflam
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- pedagoguetheatrical directortelevision presenterdramaturgeuniversity teacher
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Arnošt Goldflam is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in more than thirty films between 1986 and 2011.
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Jana Plodková
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- stage actoractor
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Jana Plodková is a Czech actress. She studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. She speaks German fluently.
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Jaroslav Plesl
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- actor
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Jaroslav Plesl is a Czech actor.
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Roman Vojtek
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- singerstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Roman Vojtek is a Czech actor, television presenter, and singer.
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Miroslav Krobot
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- actorpedagoguescreenwriterdirectorfilm actor
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Miroslav Krobot is a Czech theatre director and actor. He starred in the film The Man from London, which was entered into the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
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Gabriela Vránová
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- pedagogueteacherfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
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Gabriela Vránová was a Czech actress and voice actress.
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Vladimír Javorský
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- actortelevision actorfilm actorperforming artiststage actor
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Vladimír Javorský is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than forty films between 1986 and 2011.
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Věra Galatíková
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- actortelevision actorfilm actoruniversity teacherdub actor
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Věra Galatíková was a Czech actress. She acted in Pardubice following her studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Galatíková then joined The Drama Club in Prague, where she performed between 1967 and 1972, later performing in other Prague venues including the National Theatre. At the 1994 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play. Galatíková was recognised at the 2000 František Filipovský Awards for her work in film voice dubbing. She died of cancer in 2007.
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Táňa Fischerová
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- television presenterpoliticianwriteractorpolitical activist
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Taťana Fischerová was a Czech actress, writer, television host, politician and civic activist. From 2002 to 2006, she was a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. She was a candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election.
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Alena Antalová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied musical acting
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- actor
- Biography
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Alena Antalová is a Slovak actress.
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Igor Bareš
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Igor Bareš is a Czech actor.
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Bronislav Poloczek
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Bronislav Poloczek was a Polish-Czech theatre and television actor.
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Jan Budař
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- 1996-2000 studied acting
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- film directorwriterillustratorcomposeractor
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Jan Budař is a Czech actor, director, singer, composer and script writer.
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Blanka Bohdanová
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied in 1951
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- painterwriterpedagogueactorpoet
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Blanka Bohdanová was a Czech film, stage and television actress, who performed over 80 roles at the National Theatre in Prague over a period of more than 50 years. Her best known movie roles were in Romeo, Juliet and Darkness, Když rozvod, tak rozvod and Thirty Cases of Major Zeman. At the 2001 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for her performance in a Czech rendition of Donald L. Coburn's play The Gin Game at Viola Theatre. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Thalia Awards' 2015 ceremony.
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Oldřich Navrátil
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Oldřich Navrátil is a Czech stage, film and television actor. He has appeared in 75 films and television shows since 1976 and starred in the 1982 film Incomplete Eclipse, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Marek Daniel
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- Studied puppeteer
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- actor
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Marek Daniel is a Czech actor. He appeared in more than 20 films since 1996 and had lead roles in Protector and Prezident Blaník.
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Zdeněk Mácal
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- composerconductor
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Zdeněk Mácal was a Czech conductor who worked internationally. The promising conductor who had won international competitions left his home country of Czechoslovakia in 1968 when the Warsaw Pact ended the Prague Spring, to return only after communism ended there. He was chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 1970, the NDR Orchestra of Hanover, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1986, then the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra until 1995, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1993, and finally the Czech Philharmonic from 2003 to 2007. He conducted all major orchestras of the world and was prolific in recording. One focus of his broad repertoire was Czech music, including contemporary music.
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Zdena Herfortová
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- actorpedagoguestage actor
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Zdena Herfortová is a Czech film and stage actress. She has performed over 90 theatre roles and 150 television roles. At the 1995 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for the title role in the production of Alžběta Anglická. She performed at the Mahen Theatre in Brno between 1968 and 1992, subsequently transferring to the Brno City Theatre. Since 1976, she has taught at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno.
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Michal Šalomoun
- Enrolled in the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno
- 1992-1999 graduated with Master of Fine Arts in dramaturgy and screenwriting
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- juristlawyerpolitician
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Michal Šalomoun is a Czech lawyer and politician who served as Czech Minister of Legislation and chairman of the Government Legislative Council in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala from December 2021 to October 2024, nominated by the Czech Pirate Party.
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Viktor Skála
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- actortelevision actorstage actor
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Viktor Skála is a Czech stage and television actor. He was born on 3 March 1968, Brno, Czechoslovakia. He is a member of the Brno City Theatre.
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Petr Altrichter
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- choir directorconductormusician
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Petr Altrichter is a Czech conductor. He studied French horn and conducting at the Conservatory of Music in Ostrava. He also studied at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He worked as an assistant conductor to Václav Neumann at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Sylvie Bodorová
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- composermusic teacher
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Sylvie Bodorová is a Czech composer. During a career spanning from the late 1970s to the present day she has composed a large number of works for various instruments, both solo and orchestral pieces, and produced commissions for cities, festivals and organisations around the world. She was a founder (and only surviving) member of the Czech classical group Quattro, formed in 1996.
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Zdeněk Pololáník
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- composerorganistconductormusic educator
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Zdeněk Pololáník was a Czech contemporary composer.
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Radoslav Kvapil
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- university teacherteacherpianistcomposermusic educator
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Radoslav Kvapil is a Czech pianist.
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Tanja Miletić Oručević
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- translatortheatrical director
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Tanja Miletić Oručević is a Bosnian theatre director, academic lecturer, and translator.
