DOUBLE BASS MASTERCLASSES WILL TAKE PLACE
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FROM SEPTEMBER 7 TO SEPTEMBER 12, 2025.
Registration for the courses is open until June 30, 2025.
Miloslav Jelínek

MILOSLAV JELÍNEK graduated from the Conservatoire in Kroměříž (prof. Miloslav Gajdoš) and then from the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (prof. Jiří Bortlíček). During his study he participated in a number of interpretation competitions and won a lot of awards. Miloslav Jelínek was for 23 years a chief of the double bass group in the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. At present he has been professor at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, at the University of Ostrava, at Music Academy Karol Lipinski in Wroclaw, Poland (2012 – 2015) and at Brno Conservatory. He is honorary professor at the Beijing Conservatory. Miloslav Jelinek is the founder and chairmen of the Czech Society of Double Bassists. He cooperates with many chamber ensembles – (for example Janáček String Quartet, Brindisi String Quartet, Wallinger Quartet, RIX Quartet). Every year in September he organizes International Double Bass Convention in Brno, Czech Republic. He has made a great number of radio, television and CD recordings and together with his wife Marcela Jelínková (piano) give extensively double bass recitals in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. He performs as soloist with symphony orchestras – (Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Lower Silesia Philharmonic, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of South Bohemia, Brno Chamber Orchestra, Czech Chamber Soloists and many others). Also he is leader of the Brno Double Bass Orchestra. Miloslav Jelínek presents many contemporary pieces, which were written for him. For example Jiří Matys, Tony Osborne, Miloš Štědroň, František Emmert, Leoš Faltus and the other.
Miloslav Jelínek is giving numerous clinics and master classes through the world (China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia, Latvia, Singapore, USA etc.…).
INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE BAS CONVENTION
- Marek Švestka (Czech Republic) – Janáček Academy, Brno Philharmonic
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts, chamber music
- Gunārs Upatnieks (Latvia / Germany) – Philharmonie Berlin, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Pavel Klečka (Czech Republic) – Prague Philharmonia, Conservatory of J. Deyl Prague
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Piotr Zimnik (Poland / Germany) – Philharmonie Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Oskars Bokanovs (Latvia) – The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Svoboda Bozduganova (Bulgaria) – National Music Academy “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov“, National Music Institut Sofia
- Jazz double bass, solo repertoire
- Yannick Adams Kroon (Spain / Germany) – Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- José Vilaplana Herruzo (Spain / Belgium) – Brussels Philharmonic
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Einārs Everss (Lotyšsko / Německo) – Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Danish Academy
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Martin Raška (Czech Republic) – Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Janáček Conservatory Ostrava
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Petr Vašinka (Czech Republic) – National Theatre Prague
- Solo repertoire, orchestral excerpts
- Juraj Valenčík (Slovakia)
- Jazz double bass, solo repertoire
- Special guest
- Irena Olkiewicz (Poland) – The Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław
- Solo repertoire
- Piano Accompaniment
- Marcela Jelínková (Czech Republic) – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts Brno