Jiří Bárta


Jiří Bárta was a Czech pianist and composer.

Biography

Jiří Bárta was born in Šumice, Uherské Hradiště District. In his youth, he studied piano with organist and composer Emil Hába. He attended the Brno Conservatory from 1954 to 1958 studying piano with František Schäfer and music composition with František Suchý. He continued to study composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Vilém Petrželka and Theodor Schaefer, graduating in 1962 with his Concerto for Orchestra. Far more influential for Bárta were his post-graduate studies with Miloslav Ištvan and Ctirad Kohoutek at the Janáček Academy. These courses exposed him to the Second Viennese School, Bartók and other 20th-century classics, experimental and electronic music.
Bárta was a long-time professor of music theory and composition at the Brno Conservatory. His pupils include Alexander Müller, Karel Škarka and Jaroslav Kopecký.
For his compositions, Bárta received the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists Award for Concerto da camera for piano and string orchestra, Czech Music Fund Award for Reliéfy, and the Czech Music Fund Prize for Music for Strings „In memoriam Miloslav Ištvan“.
Bárta died in Brno at the age of 76.

Selected works

;Stage
;Orchestral
;Concertante
;Chamber music
;Piano
;Vocal