Milan Svoboda

Milan Svoboda is one of the leading personalities on the Czech musical scene. He gained international renown as a jazz pianist and band leader. His composing and conducting skills span a wide range of styles, including modern jazz, musicals, film, theater and contemporary classical music. He graduated from the organ class at the Prague Conservatory, studied musicology at Charles" University in Prague and composition at the Prague Academy of Music and at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA.
Today, Svoboda works also for theater, film and television, composes chamber and orchestral music for classical ensembles, cooperates with leading classical musicians, played and recorded with the Virtuosi di Praga and violinist Pavel Šporcl. For the past several years Svoboda has been Professor of Composition and Jazz Harmony at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory in Prague.