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Nováček Quartet
Nováček (feminine Nováčková) is a Czech surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jay Novacek (born 1962), American football tight end of Czech descent * Jitka Nováčková (born 1992), Czech model * Karel Nováček (born 1965), Czech tennis player * Libor Nováček (born 1979), Czech-English violinist, poet * Ottokar Nováček Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech people, Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work ''Perpetuum Mobile'' (''Perpetual Motion''), ... (1866–1900), Hungarian violinist and composer of Czech descent * Roman Nováček (born 1969), Czech judo-player * Rudolf Nováček (1860–1929), Czech composer and conductor * Stephanie Novacek (born 1970), American operatic mezzo-soprano of Czech descent * Zuzana Nováčková (born 1945), Czech printmaker See also * {{surname, Nováček, Novacek, Nováčková, etc. Czech-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Novacek
Jay McKinley Novacek (born October 24, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis / Phoenix Cardinals (1985–1989) and the Dallas Cowboys (1990–1995). He played college football for the Wyoming Cowboys and was selected by the Cardinals in the sixth round of the 1985 NFL draft. Novacek was a five-time Pro Bowler, who was selected to play each year from 1991 through 1995. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. Early life Born in Martin, South Dakota, Novacek attended Gothenburg High School in central Nebraska, where he was a two-year starter at quarterback and a three-sport athlete. In 1980, he set the state record in the pole vault at and also won the state titles in that event and hurdles. He was an All-state football and basketball player. His jersey is the only one retired in school history. Novacek was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jitka Nováčková
Jitka Nováčková (born 28 April 1992) is a Czech model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Czech Miss 2011 and subsequently represented the Czech Republic in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant. Early life Born in České Budějovice, Nováčková went to school at Gymnázium Jírovcova and started modeling at age 9. She was a semifinalist in Elite Model Look Czech Republic 2009 and the face of sports apparel manufacturer ''Nordlbanc'' and its 2009 spring/summer campaign for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Česká Miss 2011 Nováčková, who stands 1.75 m tall, was crowned as Česká Miss 2011 held on 19 March 2011 at the Karlín Music Theater in Prague, Czech Republic. She succeeded outgoing Česká Miss 2010 and Miss Universe 2010's Top 15 semifinalist, Jitka Válková. Miss Universe 2011 As her national pageant winner title, Nováčková officially represented Czech Republic at the Miss Universe 2011 pageant held in September 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil. In the fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Nováček
Karel Nováček (born 30 March 1965) is a retired Czech people, Czech former top ten tennis player born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). In his career, Nováček won 13 singles titles and six doubles titles. His highest singles ranking was World No. 8, which he achieved on 18 November 1991. His best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 1994 US Open (tennis), 1994 US Open where he defeated Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov, Andriy Medvedev, Todd Woodbridge, Javier Frana and Jaime Yzaga before losing to Michael Stich in the semifinal. In 1997, Novacek was suspended for three months for failing a drug test at the 1995 French Open; he forfeited $185,765, but denied taking cocaine knowingly. Nováček lived in Boca Raton, Florida, United States for 20 years, and then moved back to Czech Republic. Karel and Maya Nováček married in 1990; as of 2002, they had three children. In 2002, the ''Boca Raton News'' reported that their ten-year-old daughter Anika was a promisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libor Nováček
Libor Novacek (born 1978McLellan, Joseph (22 November 1994 ''The Washington Post'', Retrieved November 8, 2010 ("Libor Novacek will celebrate his 16th birthday in a few days")) is a Czech pianist.(16 January 2009Crescent Centre hosts Czech pianist Libor Novacek ''Chad'' (Mansfield), Retrieved November 8, 2010 He has gained international reputation for his interpretations of the works of Brahms and Liszt, which despite his young age have already been compared to those of the great masters such as Kempff and Arrau and said to possess ‘exceptional poetic verve and inwardness’. His popularity grew greatly upon winning the Landor Records 2005 Competition, whereupon he established a long-term recording contract with Landor and proceeded to release two CDs in 2006 to outstanding reviews in the classical music press including ''BBC Music Magazine'', ''International Record Review'', ''Pianonews'', ''Crescendo'', ''Rondo'' and "Editor’s Choice" in ''Gramophone Music Magazine'' for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottokar Nováček
Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech people, Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work ''Perpetuum Mobile'' (''Perpetual Motion''), written in 1895. Life Nováček was born at Bela Crkva, Banat, Weißkirchen (, ), southern Austrian Empire (today Serbia). He studied successfully with his father Martin Joseph Nováček, with Jakob Dont in Vienna (1880–83), and with Henry Schradieck and Brodsky at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize, Mendelssohn Prize in 1885. He played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the Brodsky Quartet (Adolph Brodsky Leipzig), Brodsky Quartet, originally as second violin and later as viola. He subsequently immigrated to the United States, where he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch (1891) and was appointed principal viola in the Walter Damrosch, Damrosch Orchestra, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Nováček
Roman Nováček (born 5 July 1969) is a Czech judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...ka. Achievements References * 1969 births Living people Czech male judoka Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for the Czech Republic Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-judo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Nováček
Rudolf Nováček (7 April 1860 – 11 August 1929) was a Czech composer, military conductor, and pedagogue. Life and career Rudolf Nováček was born to the conductor and Maria Hildebrand in the village of Bela Crkva (now Serbia). His younger brothers were the musicians Ottokar, and who with their father toured as the Nováček Family String Quartet. Rudolf Nováček studied at the Timișoara music school and then the Vienna Conservatory. He became conductor of 11th Battalion in the Austro-Hungarian Army and then a member of 12th Battalion. In 1884 he joined the Artistic Organization in Prague along with other significant Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák, Zdeněk Fibich and Karel Bendl. In 1890 he became bandleader of the 1st Cavalry Regiment in Sofia and then from 1891 until 1895 in the Romanian Royal Guard in Bucharest. He worked as conductor and music teacher in many cities in Russia, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. After the creation of Czechoslovakia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Novacek
Stephanie Novacek (b. Iowa City, Iowa, 31 August 1970) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses. A regular performer at the Houston Grand Opera and Opera Atelier, Novacek is especially known for her performances in contemporary operas and in obscure operas, particularly baroque works, outside of the standard repertory. ''Opera News'' has described her voice as a "rich, seamless flow of solid silk" and an actress "with always a strong presence on stage". Career Novacek studied voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( M. Mus. 1995) and began her career in 1996 as a member of the Young Artist Programs at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico and the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) in Texas. She made her professional opera debut that year as The Page of Herodias in Richard Strauss's ''Salome'' with HGO and her career has largely been based with that company ever since. With Santa Fe Opera she appeared in productions of Stravinsky's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |