Jan Jiraský (born 1973

Vysoké Mýto Vysoké Mýto (; german: Hohenmaut, also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. T ...

) is a Czech

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

and

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

. He studied the piano playing at the

Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts The Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts ( cs, Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně; abbreviation in Czech: JAMU) is a public university with an artistic focus in Brno, Czech Republic. It was established in 1947 and consi ...

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

with Alena Vlasáková. He fulfilled his studies with obtaining doctor diploma for his comprehensive study on the

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European fol ...

Piano Works. Along with publishing of the book he recorded that repertoire on CD using both modern and authentic Janáček's own Ehrbar piano (at the Janáček Museum). He was awarded by several prizes for that act, including Janáček Premium Award. He received numerous prizes at the piano competitions and as a performer he made himself famous by playing whole cycles of piano music, including complete Bach's ''

Well-Tempered Clavier ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time, ''clavier'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of in ...

'', Mozart's piano sonatas and pieces by Czech composers. He was also twice awarded by the prestigious Classic prize. As a pianist he believes a lot in importance of musicological research often using original autographs while studying new composition. He performs worldwide regularly and also devote himself to teaching. In 2007 he was named the headmaster of the Piano Department of the Janáček Academy of Music as the youngest person ever achieving that status.

References

External links

Jan Jirasky and Mozart's Sonatas in Brno
(video)
Artist's biography at the Society of Arts and Sciences

Jan Jirasky - Photo gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jirasky, Jan 1973 births Living people 20th-century Czech people 20th-century pianists 21st-century pianists Czech pianists Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts alumni People from Vysoké Mýto