Pavel Hůla (23 January 1952 – 7 December 2021) was a Czech violinist, music conductor and music teacher.

Career

Hůla became a double winner of the Kocian Violin Competition in

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(1963 and 1964) and a laureate of the Concertino Praga radio competition in the piano trio category in 1969. He graduated from the School of Music of the

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( cs, Akademie múzických umění v Praze, AMU) is a university in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, specialising in the study of music, dance, drama, film, television and multi-media. It is the larg ...

and completed his post-graduate studies in

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with

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and Vladimir Malinin's master classes in

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. He has devoted himself to solo and chamber music. For nearly three decades (1972–2000) he was a leading member of the Prague Chamber Soloists. From 1975 he was principal of the

Kocian Quartet The Kocián Quartet is a Czech classical chamber ensemble. Originally named the New String Quartet, it was founded in 1972 by three members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (Jan Odstrčil – 2nd violin, Jiří Najnar – viola, Václav Bernášek ...

, with which he performed over 3000 concerts in 32 countries and received multiple awards (1997 Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros in Paris, several

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

and many others). From 2001 he was also the artistic director of the Praga Camerata chamber orchestra, which he founded. In the spring of 2010, he replaced as the Pražák Quartet's primus its founding member Václav Remeš, who left the ensemble for health reasons. In 2015 he was himself replaced, for health reasons, by Jana Vonášková-Nováková. He also devoted himself to conducting and since 2006 was a professor at the String Instruments Department of the School of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He played a rare old violin, an instrument made by Mathias Albani in 1696, which

Jaroslav Kocian Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin. There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the nam ...

played in his youth. Hůla died on 7 December 2021, at the age of 69.

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