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Leoš Svárovský (1961) studiedflute at the Prague Conservatoire and conducting at the Academy of Music inPrague, with the renowned professor Václav Neumann, whose was the last student.His brief history: Chief Conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic, Brno Philharmonic, artistic director at the State OperaPrague, tour with the Czech Philharmonic in the USA and with SlovakPhilharmonic to Japan.
He performed throughout theEurope, USA, Japan and Korea, cooperated with many excellent orchestras and wasguest of many important music festivals in the Czech Republic (Smetana´sLitomyšl, Prague Spring, Moravian Autumn, Easter Festival of Sacred Music, Janáček May, Prague Autumn, Emma Destinn Music Festival) as well as abroad(Festspiele Europäische Wochen Passau, George Enescu Festival Bucharest,Colorado Music Festival, Settimane Musicali di Ascona, Musica Sacra Nürberg,Dias da Musica in Belém).
Nowadays is Leoš Svárovský aChief Conductor of the Aichi Central Symphony Orchestra Nagoya and PrincipalGuest Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic. He is also frequent guest conductorat many Czech orchestras – Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmoniaetc.
To name just a few orchestrashe cooperated with: Orchestre de Pays de la Lorraine Metz, Mozarteum OrchesterSalzburg, Bach Collegium München, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Residentie Orkestden Haag, RTL Symphony Orchestra Luxembourg, Bruckner Orchester Linz, OrquestraMetropolitana de Lisboa, Shanghai Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio SymphonieOrkest Utrecht, The Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Zagreb PhilharmonicOrchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Presidential Symphony OrchestraAnkara, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tokyo MetropolitanSymphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow and many others.
He also cooperated with manyoutstanding soloists, including R. Firkušný, J. Suk, V. Hudeček, I. Ardašev, P. Šporcl, V. Pikajzen, D. Geringas, A. Noras, M. Fedotov,C. Ortiz, G. Opitz, H. Hardenberger, D. Damrau, I. Oistrach, S. Vladar, M.Gauci, K. Ricciarelli, K. Rydl, S. Larin, N. Martinucci, E. Randová, D.Pecková, L. Orgonášová, P. Dvorsky, R. Buchbinder, S. Kovatschewitch, A.Kontarski, Ch. Poltera, L. Josephowitsch, X. de Maestre, F. Say, U. Ughi, A.Korobeinikov, G. Bellucci, S. Jaffé, A.Baranov, A.Korobeinikov, O.Peretyatkoand many others.
Leoš Svárovský appears oftenat Rheingau Music Festival - with Brno Philharmonic and Czech PhilharmonicChoir of Brno - in projects such as Dvorak´s Requiem (2008), Liszt´s Christus,Massenet´s Maria Magdalene (2010), Verdi´s Requiem (2013), Berlioz´s Romeo andJuliet (2014), Dvorak´s Stabat Mater (2015) and Orff Carmina Burana, Dvořák Te Deum und Slavonic Dances (2016), Orff Carmina Burana, Bernstein MissaBrevis and Dvořák Symphony No.9 (2018) .
Leoš Svárovský conducted theworld premiere of Czech composer Slavomír Hořínka´s Violin Concerto with Sophia Jaffé and the Czech Philharmonic at theBrno Moravian Autumn festival. He was re-invited to the Festspiele EuropäischeWochen Passau (with Sophia Jaffé and Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague) and toSettimane musicali di Ascona Festival in Merano. In October 2011 he made hisdebut with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow. The cooperation withTchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra continued in spring 2015 by concert in Prague,in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle. In the season 2016/17 Leoš Svárovský cameback to conduct the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra at the Big Hall ofConservatorium in Moscow with program Suk and Dvořák.
Leoš Svárovský is ofteninvited to Japan, China and Korea. He performs regularly in Japan with BrnoPhilharmonic (2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017, reinvitation in February 2019),Slovak Philharmonic (2012, 2014, 2015,2018) and PKF-Prague Philharmonia (July2018).
There are few tours ahead – toChina with Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in 2019, and to Korea with Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava in November 2019.
In this season L.Svárovský isalso coming back to Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (January 2019) andAichi Central Symphony Orchestra Nagoya. He will debut in Malaga, and come backto Stuttgart Philharmonic, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, andTchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow.
His engagements has led him toperform at Prague, Brno, Salzburg, Wuppertal, Spain, Portugal, to musicfestivals in Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, Bratislava, to subscription concerts with Slovak Philharmonic, withRadio Symphony Orchestra Prague to Innsbruck, with Massenet´s Maria Magdalenato Brucknerhaus Linz, to New Year´s concert with Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, toGerman tour with Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague (January 2015) etc. The nextGerman Tour followed in April 2017 – Frankfurt am Main, Essen Philharmonie,Erlangen, München Gasteig und Zürich Tonhalle.
In 2000 he started teachingconducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, since October 2018 asProfessor.