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Born: 22.4.1939 Čtyři Dvory u Českých Budějovic
(author's page on www.musicbase.cz)
The composer and conductor Jaroslav Krcek studied at the Bohuslav Jeremias School of Music in Ceske Budejovice, and then he enterd the State Conservatoire in Prague where he studied composition with Miloslav Kabelac and conducting with Bohumir Liska (completed in 1962). Jaroslav Krcek began his professional career as music editor of the Czechoslovak Radio in Pilsen, after that he was employed as music director at the Supraphon recording company. Since 1973 he has devoted himself exclusively to composing and performing. He is a co-founder of the innovative Chorea Bohemica ensemble (1967), later he became an artistic leader of the ensemble Musica Bohemica (1975). As an acknowledged composer and performing artist, Krcek is known to collaborate with other ensembles (Capella Istropolitana), with prominent Prague theatres and with recording companies both in Czechoslovakia and abroad.
The stylistic clarity of Krcek' s music proceeds from the synthesis of the following sources: First of all he was interested in folk music of the 18th and 19th centuries. He is the author of several hundred of folksongs' and folk dances' arrangements, some of which have been awarded prizes in the international radio competition (Prix de musique folklorique de Radio Bratislava). Another significant source of inspiration was for him the early Czech music (the medieval and Renaissance sources, 16th century hymn books and baroque music as a whole). He has also reconstructed or newly designed many old musical instruments which add specific sounds to his compositions. In the sixties he became well acquainted with the then currents in contemporary music, and thanks to his teacher, Miloslav Kabelac, Krcek has acquired a profound knowledge of the structure and inner logic of musical work as a prerequisite for mastering various compositional techniques.
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