Olga Ježková
composer (born 1956)
She was born in Prague 29 February 1956. After graduating from the Neruda Gymnasium she studied composition under František Kovaříček at the Prague Conservatory.
She has worked on the music editorial start of Czech Radio, for the publishing house Supraphon and as a teacher at the Prague Conservatory and ZUŠ (Elementary Art School). Currently she is employed in the music publication division of Czech Radio and holds the elected positron of chairwoman of the Society of Czech Composers.
In her work tries to tender the idea of a selected text or a specific artifact (she grep up in the studio of her mother, the sculpturess Olga Vohnoutová) in sound. She uses traditional musical language and works with intuition. For her, the act of composing is always an experiment – the arrangement of coloured sounds in time. Vocal compositions based on liturgical or sacred texts form the principál part of her work, e.g., Missa in honorem sancti Adalberti, which took 2nd place in a Czech Radio composition competition, as well as the pieces based on the text sof poems by Oldřich Mikulášek, Jan Skácel and other Czech poets. She finds inspiration for her instrumental compositions in the visual arts and Colorad „hearing“ of the world.
Titles for sale:
Blue Shades
David the Shepherd
Eye, symphonic fantasy for boy´s soprano and orchestra
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