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[[File:Foto kopec engl.jpg|thumb|Pavel Kopecký. Photo sourced from the composer's website]]
Pavel Kopecký is a [[:Category: Czech Republic|Czech]] composer, musician and pedagogue.

==Biography==
Czech composer Pavel Kopecký studied piano and cello before graduating from the Electro-Technical Secondary School into employment with the sound department of Czech TV. He later studied composition, piano, and music pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at the Summer Courses in Siena, Italy with Franco Donatoni.  Upon graduation he was granted a post-graduate scholarship to the Moscow State Conservatory to work with Nikolai Sidelnikov. Kopecký teaches in the both the Department of Music and Sound and the Film and TV School at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, as well as in the Jaroslav Ježek Jazz Conservatory.

==Selected works==
'''Electroacoustic Music'''
* The Still Life With Pierot - piano and EA
* Synthesis - piano and EA  
* The Still Life With Harlequin - cello and EA 
* Reverberation - cello and EA   
* Reminiscention - clarinet and EA    
* Ritorni - oboe, clarinet, bassoon and EA  
* Ritorni - clarinet version 
* Domino  - trumpet and EA 
* Movement for EA sound
* The Still Life With Colombine -  synthesizer and EA
* The Night of the Triffids   
* Fix focus
* Defilé
* Ludi e canti
* Via regia
* Impatient Orpheus
* Luci serene

'''Piano music'''
* Five Sketches for piano - suite
* Little black horse - theme and variations
* Sonata nº1
* Sonata nº2
* The Madman's Diary  - suite after N.V. Gogol

'''Organ'''
* Sphinx - fantasia for organ

'''Chamber music'''
* Trio for piano, violin and cello
* Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello
* Three studies for two cellos

'''Orchestral'''
* Four symphonic preludes - Moscow
* Paths - variations for strings;
* Cross-sections - three movements for orchestra

'''Concertos'''
* Concerto for piano and orchestra 
* Concerto for clarinet and strings  
* Concerto for French horn and strings 

''' Vocal compositions'''
* Dream - to lyrics by J. Kainar

'''Music for film''' 
* Expedition Monoxylon -  document 
* The Peak of Communism -   document 
* Banka in the town of Usti 
* Scar Face of the Country -  music colaboration at a document 
 
''Ballet''
* Divorce  -  The ballet adaptation of the 'Synthesis' composition

== References ==
# [http://pavelkopecky.cz/index.html The composer's website]
# https://movingclassics.tv/classicpeople/pavel-kopecky/

==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClGU2-22k5xzT9qi3S0tMvg Youtube channel]
* [https://soundcloud.com/pavel-kopecky-composer Soundcloud Profile]

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