Miloslav Gajdoš (born 13 April 1948, in

Město Albrechtice Město Albrechtice () is a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,400 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in the Osoblažsko microregion. Administrative division Město Albrechtice c ...

) is a Czech double bass player, music teacher, and composer.

Life

Having begun by the violin, Gajdoš took bass lessons in

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with Alois Kříž, with Jiří Bortlíček in Brno, and with

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. Between 1968 and 1972, he also studied composition with Zdeněk Zouhar. He was a prize winner at the International Double Bass Competition in

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. During his studies, Gajdoš played bass in the theater orchestra of Brno, where later he performed as a soloist. He played with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the Czech premiere of

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's First Double Bass Concerto, from which Gajdoš undertook, from the 1990s, several concert tours in the US and made his mark as one of the greatest bass virtuosos of the 20th century. Since 1973, Gajdoš has been the Professor at the Conservatory of Kroměříž. He later taught, among others, in

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, and

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and gave master classes in 1997 at New York's

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. His pupils included Radomír Žalud, Miloslav Bubeníček, Roman Koudelka, Radoslav Šašina, Miloslav Jelínek, Pavel Klečka, Martin Šranko, Eva Šašinková, Luděk Zakopal, Miloslav Raisigl, Petr Ries, and Jan Staněk. Gajdoš edited more than 70 works for the double bass. He also composed sacred music works for solo double bass, several basses (from duo to quintet) for double bass and piano, as well as for double bass and orchestra. He also made his mark as a choral and orchestral conductor.

External links

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Slovak Doublebass Club - Miloslav Gajdoš
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