Jiří Gemrot

Stemming from a musical family, Gemrot started playing the piano at the age of seven. In 1972 he entered the Prague Conservatory to study piano with Ema Doležalová and composition with Jan Zdeněk Bartoš. From 1976 to 1981 he attended the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts where he studied under Jiří Pauer.

As a pianist he spent a short time in the ranks of the Vít Nejedlý Army Art Ensemble. In 1982 he took up the position of music director at the Czech Radio in Prague, and he also worked as an editor of the phonograph edition of the Panton publishing house.

Gemrot's compositions have been awarded in several national competitions. His style draws on Neo-Classicism, and he takes classical composers such as S. Prokofiev, B. Britten or B. Martinů as his models. His existing compositional output consists predominantly of chamber music written at request of particular musicians, e.g. the Summer Study (Letní studie) for the Prague Saxophone Quartet (1986) or Bucolica for the Stamitz Quartet (1987).

Gemrot has also composed several orchestral pieces and vocal scores, for example the Concerto for piano and orchestra (1981), the Concertino for orchestra (1997), Bachmannlieder for soprano and orchestra (1984), etc. He is an active member of the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists. In 1990 he became the chief music director of the Czech Radio. Gemrot also writes music for radio plays and fairy tales.

Titles for sale:
American Ouverture
Bachmannlieder
Bukolika
Capriccio for cello and piano
Concertino for Flute, Timpani and BagpipeConcerto for Oboe and Orchestra / piano scoreConcerto for Piano and Orchestra
Piano Quintet
Short Story for Piano
Sonata for Violoncello and Piano
Symphony No. 2
Virtuosino per corno e pianoforte
Vision for Organ

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