Pianist Ivo Kahánek will become the director of the Prague Conservatory

Pianist Ivo Kahánek, a well-known promoter of the work of Bohuslav Martinů and a member of the Board of Directors of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation,  will become the director of the Prague Conservatory from June 23, 2025.

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Doc. MgA. Ivo Kahánek, Ph.D. is considered one of the best Czech pianists of the present day. The undisputed winner of the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 2004 regularly works with pre-eminent Czech and international orchestras and musicians. In 2007 he performed for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek for a rendition of Piano Concerto No. 4 (Incantations) by Bohuslav Martinů. Ivo Kahánek repeated the concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle in 2014. His album (Janáček – Martinů – Kabeláč) received the best possible rating in specialised international music magazines – Classics Today (USA), Le Monde de la Musique (France), and Fanfare (USA). Ivo Kahánek is a graduate of the Janáček Conservatoire in Ostrava in the class of Mgr. Marta Toaderová and of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of prof. Ivan Klánský.