Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno
| Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts Brno |
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|---|---|
| founding | 1947 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Brno |
| country | Czech Republic |
| Rector | Petr Oslzlý |
| Students | 500 (2007) |
| Website | www.jamu.cz |
The Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts Brno (Czech: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně , JAMU for short ) in Brno is a university for music and theater.
JAMU is one of two universities for music and theater in the Czech Republic . It was named after the composer Leoš Janáček and founded in 1947. After years of upward development in the young academy, activities " normalized " after the Prague Spring in the communist era of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1989 the foundations for the development of the performing arts were created and today's academy with well-known professors was established.
JAMU, with its two faculties of music and theater, had around 600 students in 2004/2005. The Academy offers courses in Czech, German and English. JAMU works with numerous universities in Germany and abroad.
Honorary doctorates from the Academy have been awarded to the pianist Rudolf Firkušný , the poet Ludvík Kundera , Václav Havel and the poet and actor Jiří Suchý .
Faculties
- Faculty of Music
- Faculty of Theater
Well-known graduates and lecturers
- Josef Karlík (1928–2009), actor
- Vladimír Menšík (1929–1988), actor
- Igor Ardasev (* 1967), pianist
- Petr Fiala (* 1943), composer and conductor
- Květa Fialová (1929–2017), actress and voice actress
- Rudolf Růžička (* 1941), composer
- Jiří Bartoška (born 1947), actor
- Tomáš Matonoha (* 1971), actor
- Michaela Fukačová (* 1959), cellist
- Josef Polášek (* 1965), actor
- Pavel Liška (* 1971), actor
- Marek Daniel (* 1971), actor
- Jan Budař (* 1977), actor
- Jana Plodková (* 1981), actress
Web links
- Homepage (cz / en)
Footnotes
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 46 ″ N , 16 ° 36 ′ 37.1 ″ E
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