Presenting Some Good Czech Choirs
2013-04-15
By Marek Valášek, choral conductor and teacher
Kühn Children’s Choir
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Marek Valášek
Marek Valášek, MgA., Ph.D. (born in 1969) teaches choir direction at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University in Prague and leads three of Prague Conservatoire’s choirs. In 2004 he conducted the Czech première of the oratorio Ecce Homo by Czech composer Jan Hanuš at the Prague Spring International Music Festival, in 2005 he conducted Hanuš´s Requiem. Between 2002 and 2006 he also worked as a choirmaster at the Prague State Opera. In 1996 he founded the Piccolo Coro & Piccola Orchestra chamber choir and string orchestra. Email: marek.valasek@pedf.cuni.cz