Václav Krahulík (born 31 December 1966)Krahulík, Václav
(in Czech) Dictionary of Czech music personalities is a Czech pianist, composer, musicologist and academic teacher.

Life

Krahulík was born in

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. ...

. He studied piano at the

Teplice Teplice (, until 1948 Teplice-Šanov; , ''Teplitz-Schönau'') is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 51,000 inhabitants. It is the most populous Czech spa town, followed by Karlovy Vary. The historic city cen ...

Conservatory with Jaroslav Čermák and at the Prague Academy of Music with

Pavel Štěpán Pavel Štěpán (28 May 1925 – 30 September 1998) was a Czechs, Czech pianist whose domain was the interpretation of piano works by Josef Suk (composer), Josef Suk, Vitezslav Novak and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano concertos. He has always been ...

. He won the Marienbad

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for Piano solo, solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown ...

competition in 1983, the

Hradec Králové Hradec Králové (; ) is a city of the Czech Republic. It has about 94,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Hradec Králové Region. The historic centre of Hradec Králové is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech R ...

Bedřich Smetana Bedřich Smetana ( ; ; 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded ...

competition in 1986, and the

Hradec nad Moravicí Hradec nad Moravicí (; ) is a town in Opava District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,500 inhabitants. The historic town centre with the castle complex is well preserved and is protected as an urban monument z ...

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

competition in 1989, for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece, his own ''Piano Sonata in F Sharp''. From 1990 to 2003, he taught at the Teplice Conservatory; in 1995, he was appointed professor at the

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (, abbreviated as UJEP) is a public university in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. The institution was established on 28 September 1991. It bears the name of famous Czech scientist J ...

. He has recorded several CDs, with music by

Miloš Bok Miloš Bok (born 16 January 1968) is a Czech composer, conductor, pianist, organist, choirmaster and music educator. Life and career Miloš Bok was born on 16 January 1968 in Prague. He graduated in piano playing in 1988 at the Prague Conserva ...

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...

, and his own compositions, and also recorded and performed with horn player

Radek Baborák Radek Baborák (born 11 March 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech conductor and French horn player. Career Radek Baborák was born into a musical family. He commenced his horn studies at the age of eight under the tutelage of Karel Kr ...

Work

Compositions

* ''Titan'' (etude, 1983) * ''World of Silence'' (sonata, 1984) * ''Fantasy and Fugue on the theme BACH'' (1985) * ''Sonata in F Sharp'' (1986) * ''Jazz Etudes'' (1986–2010)

Writings

* ''Connections between philosophy, art and culture'' (in: Sborník UJEP, Ústí nad Labem 2000). * ''Searching for the turning point in the broader context of European musical thought in the period between late Romantism and Modernism'' (in: Sborník Univerzity Mateja Bela, Banská Bystrica 2004). * ''Impressionist tendencies in Franz Liszt's music'' (in: Sborník UJEP, Ústí nad Labem 2009). * ''The whole tone scale as an important factor of suppressing the functional cadenza system in Franz Liszt's music'' (in: Sborník UJEP, Ústí nad Labem 2010). *
Impressionist and atonal tendencies in Franz Liszt's music – an anticipation of the harmonic phenomenons of the 20th century
' (Ústí nad Labem 2010).Mgr. Václav Krahulík / Disertační práce / Impresionistické a atonální tendence v hudbě Ference Liszta – anticipace harmonických jevů 20. století
(dissertation) theses.cz

References

External links

MgA. Václav Krahulík, Ph.D.
(in Czech)

Baborák Ensemble
art-productions.com *