Professor Lumír Pivovarský

Choirmaster and artistic director of CHORUS OSTRAVA
Professor Pivovarský is a graduate of Palacký University, Olomouc, where he studied under Bohumil Berka, the conductor of the Moravian Philharmonic. For many years he was a professor at the Department of Music Education, University of Ostrava, where he trained choirmasters. In 1966 he founded the University of Ostrava Choir, which he led for 42 years until his retirement from the University, achieving many notable artistic successes in choral competitions both in the Czech Republic and abroad. He is the author of several university textbooks and has published widely in specialist journals. Together with the artistic director Lubomír Mátl, he is one of the choirmasters of the Choral Association of Moravian Teachers.
In October 2008, Professor Pivovarský and CHORUS OSTRAVA won the Jindřich Boška prize at the international choral festival of Romantic music in Vlachovo Březí in recognition of his many years of outstanding achievements as a choirmaster.

Jan Mlčoch

The second choirmaster of CHORUS OSTRAVA
Mr Mlčoch is one of Professor Pivovarský’s most talented students. In 2001 he founded the Exil Chamber Choir, with which he achieved a number of notable successes domestically and abroad, and which continues to perform under a new name: the Academic Choir of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava.

In October 2008, at the international choral festival of Romantic music in Vlachovo Březí, Mr Mlčoch won an award in recognition for his achievements as a young choirmaster with the newly founded CHORUS OSTRAVA. He won great acclaim from the competition jury and all of the choir’s members for his great enthusiasm.