{"id":2095,"date":"2015-09-06T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jan-dusek.com\/?page_id=2095"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:55:44","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jan-dusek.com\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Jan Du\u0161ek is a Czech composer and pianist of the middle generation who strives to connect tradition with the present in both his fields. His compositions are emotionally powerful and musically expressive, and he does not hesitate to use melody, tonality, or 20th-century means of expression to convey his ideas.<\/p>

He draws on the ideas of the \u201cNew Sincerity\u201d movement, among other things, which makes his music appealing not only to listeners but also to performers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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While still a student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in Hanu\u0161 Barto\u0148\u2019s class, he attracted attention by repeatedly winning the Generace composition competition, where he won first prize twice in a row (2006 …In Seven Days I Will Send Rain Upon the Earth…<\/em>, 2007 Gradation for Organ<\/em>).<\/p>

Among his most significant works is the cycle Chalomot yehudi\u2019im (Jewish Dreams)<\/em>, which won the Gideon Klein Prize and the Audience Prize in the NuBERG competition organised by the BERG Orchestra. This composition was even selected for a concert broadcast live by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), reaching several thousand listeners around the world.<\/p>

Another frequently performed piece is the compulsory composition for the Prague Spring Competition for solo clarinet, Unsent Letter<\/em>, which several performers around the world has taken up.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Performers of his compositions include leading figures on the world music scene, including clarinettists Liliana Lefebvre, Irvin Veny\u0161, Aurelian Bacan, and Gon\u00e7alo Pinto, oboist Bart Schneemann, and flautists Monika \u0160treitov\u00e1 and Matei Ioachimescu. He has collaborated repeatedly with renowned ensembles such as the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, the Prague Philharmonic Choir under the baton of Luk\u00e1\u0161 Vasilek, the BERG Orchestra, and the Prague Philharmonia. His works have been performed across Europe, from Paris, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Porto, and Prague to Cluj, Romania, and have been recorded on numerous albums.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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