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Born in Rakovník on 7 October 1968. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatoire and the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He played in the Czech Philharmonic from 1989 to 1997. Around that time, he established the Apollon Quartet, of which he is still a member. From 2000 to 2015, he organised several festivals under the joint label of Czech Culture Festivities (Tanvald Musical Spring, Martinů Fest in Polička, Malá Strana Chamber Festivities, Bystřice Chateau Festivities, etc.). In 2014 he accepted the job of presenter at Radio Classic, but withdrew from the post when he was offered the position of programming director of the Dvořák Prague Festival. At the conclusion of his term of office, he accepted the Czech Philharmonic’s invitation to head the programming of the Czech Chamber Music Society. He is the executive director and owner of Film and Concert Production, s.r.o., a company that focuses on recording film music classical music. Its achievements include the music for the Academy Award-winning film I Served the King of England, or projects for renowned music labels such as Decca, Sony, and Deutsche Grammophon, or the BBC. In 2017 the Czech Association of Music Artists and Scholars nominated Křižanovský as a board member of the State Culture Fund, where he currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

(born 1977), an experienced economist with a Master of Science in Management from the elite HEC School of Management in Paris and a B.Sc. in International Business from the University of Economics in Prague, enriched his education by studying at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and EM Lyon Business School in France. He has extensive experience in the financial and business sectors of the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, gained in France, Malaysia, Turkey and the Czech Republic.

Since 2014, he has been the Chief Financial and Commercial Officer of Sotio Biotech, a biotechnology company with a global reach developing innovative cancer therapeutics. Since 2022, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss-Czech Chamber of Commerce (HST), where he is actively involved in the development of business relations between the two countries. In addition to his professional activities, he is a musician and a two-time winner of the Music schools’ national competition for wind instruments (clarinet 1996, saxophone 1999).