Jaroslav KrÄek
Jaroslav Krček ( born April 22, 1939 in České Budějovice ) is a Czech composer and conductor.
Krček visited the B. Jeremiás music school in České Budějovice (Budweis ), and then studied composition with Miloslav Kabeláč and conducting with Bohumír Liska at the Prague Conservatory. He worked from 1962 as Muskkdirektor at Radio Pilsen and in 1967 music editor at the record label Supraphon, Prague. Here he founded in 1967 the Folklore Ensemble chorea Bohemical, which he led for twenty years and for which he composed a series of songs and dances. In 1975 he founded the Musica Bohemica, a company specializing in Bohemian Christmas Music Chamber Ensemble.
Krčeks intense preoccupation with Czech folk music arose about a thousand arrangements of Czech folk tunes. He also composed, inter alia, three symphonies, a Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Orchestra, Four Miniatures Renaissance as a commissioned work for the trio spectrum and the electro-acoustic opera Raab, for which he was awarded the International Composers Competition in Geneva with the first prize.