Miloslav Gajdoš

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Miloslav Gajdoš (born April 13, 1948 in Město Albrechtice ) is a Czech double bass player, music teacher and composer.

Life

After initially taking violin lessons, Gajdoš took double bass lessons in Kroměříž from 1963 to 1968 with Alois Kříž , which he continued in Brno with Jiří Bortlíček and between 1976 and 1979 in summer courses with Ludwig Streicher . Between 1968 and 1972 he also took composition lessons from Zdeňek Zouhar . In 1976 and 1977 he was a prize winner at the International Double Bass Competition in Markneukirchen.

Already during his studies Gajdoš played the double bass in the Brno Theater Orchestra, and later he appeared as a soloist. He played the Czech world premiere of Giovanni Bottesini's First Double Bass Concerto with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc , undertook several concert tours through the USA from the 1990s and made a name for himself as one of the most important double bass virtuosos of the late 20th century. In 2000 he was a co-founder of the International Johannes Matthias Sperger Society.

Since 1973 Gajdoš was a professor at the Kroměříž Conservatory, where he initiated the František Gregora International Double Bass Competition in 1979 and founded a bass club . He later taught a. a. in Moscow, Debrecen, Miskolc, Munich, Dresden and Berlin and gave masterclasses in 1997 at the New York Juilliard School of Music . His students included Radomír Žalud , Miloslav Bubeníček , Roman Koudelka , Radoslav Šašina , Miloslav Jelínek , Pavel Klečka , Martin Šranko , Eva Šašinková , Luděk Zakopal , Miloslav Raisigl , Petr Ries and Jan Staněk .

Gajdoš has arranged more than 70 works for the double bass, he has also composed sacred works for double bass solo, several double basses (from duo to quintet), for double bass and piano as well as for double bass and orchestra. He also made a name for himself as a choir and orchestra conductor.

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SURNAME Gajdoš, Miloslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech double bass player, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Město Albrechtice