Ivo Medek
From Unearthing The Music
Ivo Medek (born July 20, 1956 in Brno) is a Czech composer, music publicist and pedagogue. He was the rector of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno from 2010 to 2018 (JAMU).
Life
In 1980, he graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Brno University of Technology (Ing. Degree) and worked at this school until 1997 as an assistant professor. In the meantime, he studied composition in 1989 at JAMU and in 1997 undertook his doctoral studies in composition theory. He began working as a teacher at JAMU in 1990. [1]
He is the author of more than 50 musical compositions, which can be included in the field of orchestral, chamber and electroacoustic music. He is also known as a multimedia artist, developing his own unique and original compositional method. He co-founded the music ensemble Ars Inkognito, which focuses on contemporary music.
References
- Medek Ivo [online]. Musicbase.cz [cit. 2020-05-07].
External links
- (in Czech) http://www.musica.cz/medeki/index.htm [ unavailable source ] Musica.cz
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080613230234/http://enh.mhf-brno.cz/enh0.php Brno International Music Festival
- http://www.divadlo.cz/art/clanek.asp?id=6322 Divadlo.cz
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071024165719/http://www.musica.cz/comp/medek.htm