Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory (), located in

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, Czech Republic, is a conservatory specializing in contemporary music. Known primarily as a school for

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

and commercial music, it also offers a six-year undergraduate diploma in

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, composition, conducting, scriptwriting and

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. The conservatory offers instruction in piano, guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass, double bass, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, percussion instruments, accordion and voice.

History

In 1958, pianist-composer-educator Vadim Petrov founded the People's Art School which offered courses for working people and was the precursor to the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. At the time of its founding, all music schools of the former

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focused primarily on Classical music, but the People's Art School offered training in jazz and commercial music for radio, theater and television. Unfortunately, the school was not able to attain the status of conservatory for ideological reasons until 1990, the year after the

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. From the very beginning Jaroslav Ježek stood as an artistic and human inspiration. When the school finally managed to become a conservatory, at the end of the 1980s, the name of this impresario was accepted as the name of the school.Bednar, Vrany; "Proclamation of the 50th anniversary of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College
retrieved 8 November 2010 In 1998, all the facilities of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory were able to be co-located in one building at Roškotova 1692/4, in the

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district.

Selected faculty members

Karel Růžička Karel Růžička (born 11 May 1909; date of death unknown) was a Czech bobsledder who competed in the 1930s for Czechoslovakia. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 1935 FIBT World Championships in Igls. Ruzicka also competed ...

: piano *Jaromír Honzák: double bass *Svatopluk Košvanec: trombone * Jaroslava Maxová: singing *Libor Šmoldas: guitar *: piano *Milan Tesař: guitar

References

External links

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International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory Music schools in the Czech Republic Educational institutions in Prague Educational institutions established in 1990 1990 establishments in Czechoslovakia