Evžen Zámečník has died at the age of 79. During his musical career he was a composer, violinist and conductor.
Evžen Zámečník was born in 1939, and his father was a folk singer. From 1956 to 1961 he studied violin at the Brno Conservatory. He then gained a place as a violinist in the musical theatre orchestra of the State Theatre (now the National Theatre) in Brno. He later moved on to the orchestra in the same theatre. His career as a violinist further developed in the Brno State Philharmonic (now the Brno Philharmonic). At the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts he studied composition with Jan Kapr. His graduation work was the one-act opera Fraška o kádi. He continued his studies of composition at the State Academy of Music in Munich with Günter Bialas and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he completed his PhD with Jiří Dvořáček. In 1982 Evžen Zámečník founded the Brno Brass Band (10 brass instruments and percussion), in which he was artistic director and conductor. In the period from 1994 to 2002 he was the director off the Brno Conservatory and conductor of its student wind orchestra.
The funeral is to be held on 24 February at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Brno-Zábrdovice.
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