Stanislav Vavřínek

Stanislav Vavřínek studied the flute and conducting at the Brno Conservatory. While still a student, he was for four years a member of the Brno Conservatory Wind Quintet, which received an invitation, in 1989 and 1990, to perform at the International Youth Festival in Bayreuth, both as a chamber ensemble and as part of Bayreuth Festival Youth Orchestra. He later continued studying at the Prague Academy of Music, in the conducting classes of Professors Eliška, Vajnar and Stych. He finished his training at the master class of Roberto Benzi in Switzerland.
Following a successful performance with the Biel Philharmonic Orchestra at the final concert, he was recommanded by Roberto Benzi as guest conductor of the Durban Symphonic Orchestra. Between 1994 and 1998, he was the principal conductor of the Prague Student Orchestra which received a number of awards under his leadership, First Prize (along with the top prize of the contest "Suma cum laude") in the 1995 Nerpelt International Competition, and First Prize in the Concerto Bohemia radio competition (1995/1996). In 1997 it was the Absolute Winner prize in the same competition for the performance of Sostakovich's Chamber Symphony op. 110.
Stanislav Vavřínek made several radio and TV recordings and concert tours abroad. In 1998, the International Youth Orchestra played under his baton at the final gala concert at the Shizuoka festival in Japan.
He has guest-conducted more than thirty symphonic and chamber orchestras, including Janáček's Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, the State Philharmonic Orchestra Brno, the Prague Philharmonia, Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Gdansk Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared on stages with prominent soloists such as Ivan Moravec, Eugene Indjic, Ivan Kusnjer, Václav Hudeček, Dagmar Pecková and Pavel Šporcl. He has been host at prestigious international festivals in Shizuoka, Brno, at the Prague Autumn and Prague Spring festivals, to name just a few. He has made seven CDs with music by Mozart, Haydn, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Sternwald, Bartók, and Shostakovich. During the current season, he has been invited to work with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in Bratislava.
Since 1999 till 2008 he acts as Chief Conductor of the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra České Budějovice. Since September of 2008 he operates as Chief Conductor of Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra Zlín. Since 2006 he gives lessons of conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.