RESEARCH

Czech music with its rich tradition can be traced back to Baroque masterworks by Jan Dismas Zelenka, Classical compositions by Franz Krommer, Jan Vaclav Antonin Stamitz and his sons Carl and Anton, Johann Baptist Vanhal, and Romantic music by Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana. These are just a few names from a list of composers whose compositions became widely recognized and programmed in concerts of leading orchestras and chamber groups. Because of my keen interest in contemporary music and love for Czech music, my doctoral research specialized in “Contemporary Czech Oboe Music: A Survey of Works from the Moravian Region of the Czech Republic Written Since 1969.” I have given recitals featuring Czech music at the International Double Reed Society Conferences (2005, 2007, and 2010) and published an article summarizing my findings and an interview with leading Czech oboe scholar, Miroslav Hosek, in the IDRS Journal. In 2010, I performed at the Czech and Slovak Music and Related Arts Conference, among other works a world premiere of Karel Husa’s Four Bohemian Sketches. In 2011, a compact disc the “Czech and Moravian Oboe Music” was released by Centaur Records and features works by lesser known composers Pavel Masek, Jiri Teml, Edvard Schiffauer, Pavel Cotek, Joseph Fiala, Ctirad Kohoutek, and Lubomir Kozeluha. My future project is to record oboe works by a well-known and loved Czech composer Petr Eben (1926 – 2007) for the Toccata Classics label.