ALEŠ TVRDÍK
Nation and city: Czech Republic - Brno
Academy: Janáčkovy Akademie Múzických Umĕní v Brnĕ
Instrument: Clarinet
date of birth: 18/10/1997
He was born in 1997 in Jablonec nad Nisou. He is currently studying the clarinet at the Janáček Academy of performing arts in Brno in the class of prof. Milan Polák and doc. Vít Spilka.
He is a laureate of several competitions in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and Italy. He has also participated in masterclasses with leading world players such as Yehuda Gilad, Harri Maki, Franck Amet, Paolo Beltramini, Shirley Brill, Andrew Marriner.
He played as a soloist with orchestras in Germany, Czech Republic, and Italy. He won the first price in several international competitions in Italy, such as Concorso Saverio Mercadante, in the Czech Republic, Czech Clarinet Art, in Poland Międzynarodowy Konkurs Instrumentów Dętych and he also won the competition for conservatories and musical secondary schools of the Czech Republic with full points and title of absolute winner.
The latest successes were in September 2019, when he won the second price at Leoš Janáček international competition in Brno, in July 2020 the third price at Silverstein Global Clarinet Contest, and in December 2020 the third price at Sava Dimitrov Sofia.
