OVERVIEW

Marek Keprt (1974, Olomouc) is a pianist, composer and teacher, and is the program and artistic director of MusicOlomouc (an international festival of contemporary music) and artistic director of Lichtzwang (ensemble of contemporary music). Keprt studied composition with Iván Eröd and David Kaufmann, and piano with Alexander Jenner and Carmen Graf-Adnet at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (1992–2000). From 2000–2008, he completed his PhD studies at the Department of Musicology at the Palacký University Olomouc. He was a resident of Ostrava Days 2017 Institute. From 2002 to 2014, Keprt worked as a piano and music theory teacher at the Conservatory in Opava. Since 2002, he has worked as an assistant professor for the Department of Musicology at Palacký University Olomouc. Keprt was awarded several prizes at the Generace Ostrava competition and The Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna. His compositions have been performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Berg orchestra, Ostravská Banda, AuditivVokal Dresden, Ensemble Mondrian and many others.