Bohuš Zoubek Has Died. Musician and Former Director of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra

19 September 2017, 12:00

Yesterday, 18 October 2017, Bohuš Zoubek died.

Mgr. Bohuš Zoubek (*1942) studied at the Brno Conservatory and then at JAMU (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts). In 1968 he won an award at the Prague Spring International Competition. In the same year he took part in the founding of the Goose on a String Theatre, for which he wrote incidental music.

In 1969 he joined what was then the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra (today’s Brno Philharmonic Orchestra). He stayed with them as a solo horn player until 1988. During his musical career he also worked as a teacher at JAMU, where he trained a series of players on the French horn. In the period 1997 to 2007 he returned to the Brno Philharmonic as their director.

It was in 2007 that he won the prize of the Ministry of Culture for contributions to Czech culture. As a person he was closely connected to Brno and for many years worked toward the building of a new concert hall – today known as the Janáček Cultural Centre.

The funeral will take place on Monday at 12:30 in the mourning hall of the Brno Central Cemetery.

Bohuš Zoubek/ photo by Vojtěch Havlík

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