Stanislav Pecháček, Author at The IFCM Magazine

Stanislav Pecháček

Stanislav Pecháček, Ph.D. graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in Olomouc in 1974. He taught at the Pedagogical Grammar School in Prague for nine years, where he became interested in choral singing and became the conductor of the school´s girls’ choir. From 1985, he taught at the Music Department of Charles University; from 1998, at the Faculty of Education in Prague, as a senior lecturer and since 2012 has taught as a university professor. In 2001 he held the office of Deputy Head of the Music Department. He has published four monographs about Czech choral literature and folk songs (one of them in Polish) and nine textbooks in the field of intonation, conducting techniques, didactics of music, and practical harmonization of folk songs for the piano and the guitar. From 1990 to 1995, he was the conductor of the women´s choir ‘Puellae Pragenses’ and from 1995 to 2006 he led the children´s choir ‘Mládí’ (Youth). In the 1990s he was engaged in choral organisations both in the Czech Republic (Presidium of the Association of Czech Choirs) and abroad (AGEC – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Chorverbände). From 1993 to 2000 he was Editor in Chief of the Review for Choral Arts ‘Cantus’. Email: pechacek.stanislav@seznam.cz

Brève Histoire de la Musique Chorale Tchèque

By: Stanislav Pecháček

On: April 15, 2013

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Par Stanislav Pecháček, chef de chœur et enseignant

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