Pavel Černý

The organist, educator and organologist Pavel Černý is often invited to participate in concerts taking place at reknown concert halls within the country (Prague Spring, FOK, Czech Philharmonic, Janáček’s May and various others) as well as in other European countries, the USA, Japan, Brazil, Africa or Cuba. He holds classes on organ play, improvisation and organology at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague and the Janáček Academy of Musical Arts in Brno. He has also been a member of jury at various organ contests. His winning of the first prize in the Opava organ contest (1990), as well as in Ljubljana (1992) and Prague Spring (1994) have gained him bigger attention. He has been awarded additional prizes through a number of significant cultural organisations. Pavel Černý records CDs in his homeland as well as abroad, both for radio and TV broadcasting and some of these recordings have been honoured for by foreign critics. Pavel Černý is the creator of a radio series about organ. At special occasions he performs on a mobile choir organ made by an unknown Czech master of the 18th century, which he has himself restored under expert supervision in the Netherlands. Pavel Černý works as a musical counsellor of various international festivals. As an organologist he works in specialized comittees for building, repairment and documentation of organ instruments, he publishes scholarly articles and is responsible for the promoting of historical instruments in the Czech Republic.