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JAN MÍŠEK - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jan Míšek (b. 1976) gained his first choirmaster experience by leading the preparatory section of Boni pueri. His professors of conducting were Professor Jiří Skopal (University of Hradec Králové) and Doctor Vlastislav Novák (Conservatory Pardubice). He is a graduate of several Master classes (prof. Gert Frischmuth, Gábor Hollerung, prof. Friedrich Krell, Robert Sund, prof. Jerry Jordan) including Masterclasses under Bachakademie Stuttgart with prof. Helmuth Rilling.
He went on to found the choir at the J. K. Tyl Grammar School in 1993 and then took his place at the head of the Kantiléna Chamber Choir, before prompting the establishment of the Hradec Králové Male Voice Choir. He lived his greatest dream and founded the BONIFANTES Boys’ Choir in Pardubice in 1999. In spite of his youth, Jan Míšek has been presented with a number of awards for outstanding conducting performance. He and his choirs have won 15 gold medals (for example, with the Hradec Králové Male Choir at the 1st World Choir Olympics in the Austrian town of Linz in the male voice choir category) and 11 silver medals at various international competitions over a relatively short space of time.
Jan Míšek is also involved in composing activities and cooperates with music publisher Edition Music-Contact. Thanks to the results he has achieved, he was nominated for the 9th edition of The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership by the American Biographical Institute in 1999 and was included in “Who is who” in the year 2001. The Union of Czech Choirs awarded him the “Junior Choirmaster” prize in 2003. Jan Míšek is also editor-in-chief and intellectual father of the project SBOR.CZ, a Czech Internet server for choirs. He has been acknowledged by experts for his interpretation of 20th century music.
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