Lukáš Hurník
composer (born 1967)
Lukáš Hurník started off his musical career (together with drummer Kladius Kryšpín) as a rock band bassist for Biwoy, a band for which he also wrote its complete repertoire. At that time Hurník was looking up to Frank Zappa for his musical inspiration. Hurník then used some of the rock elements in his four-handed piano “Hot-suite”, which received a first price at the international competition in Tokyo in 1990. Other awards followed from composer competitions “Generation” and “Jihlava”.
Hurník’s compositions are characterized by synthesis of various styles, in which rock meets with baroque and modern polyphonic voice, chromatics with classical melodics and cantilena with minimalist patterns. His largest work yet is a symphony „Globus“ for percussion and symphonic orchestra. This piece was made for renowned Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie and is now a part of a repertoire of Dama-Dama ensemble from Brno. Sketch of author’s work was published on his profile CD called „Fusion Music“.
Lukáš Hurník takes part in music popularization in Czech Radio and Czech Television (Marek Eben’s and Lukáš Hurník’s Music Laboratory, Those Best of Classic, Vinceró). His radio program „Da capo“ has already reached up to 300 episodes.
Apart from writing several columns (magazine “Harmonie”), he wrote a popular educational book „The Secrets of Music – Revealed“ (Grada) and participated on formation of new high-school and basic-school textbooks for basic musical education. Apart from all this, Hurník devotes his time to chorus mastering. He conducts the mixed chorus Gaudium Pragense. He studied at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University, where he has also obtained his Ph.D. degree. Today he works as a director manager of Czech Radio 3 – Vltava.
Titles for sale:
Andro Verdan Variations
Cosi Fun Tutte
Girl and Machine
Saxophone Quartet no. 1 "President"
Upside-down Variations on Mozart's theme for string quintet / string quartet / string orchestra
Triptych, Ad vitam aeternam, Double Song
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