Pavel Trojan

PAVEL TROJAN was born on 14th August 1956 in Domažlice. Between 1977 and 1982, he studied composition with Ilja Hurník at the Prague Conservatory; after that, from 1982 until 1989, he went to attend the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied in the class of Jiří Pauer. The composer has extensive chamber, orchestral and musical dramatic work, which includes both opera and musical. In his work he puts emphasis on melody, brevity and clarity. He has been working at the Prague Conservatory since 1986, at first as a music theory tutor, and from 1991 as a music composition teacher. From 1992 until 2004, he was the vice director of the conservatory until being appointed the director in December 2004 (until July 2018). He is currently teaching a composition. Main works: Piano Concerto (1989), Missa solemnis (1998), Variations on a Theme by and Written in Honor of Václav Trojan (2006), Sinfonia giocosa (2008), Piano Trio No. 2 (2009), Pastoral Fairytale (Opera, 2012), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 (2015), The Cross of Zavis (Musical, 2016). More information: www.paveltrojan.cz