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Z. Novák was born in 1967. He studied composition in the class of prof. M. Kopelent at the Prague Academy of Musical Arts (AMU) from 1991 to 1997. From 1994 he took lessons in conducting from L. Svárovský. In 1995 he received the 2nd Prize in the International Prague Spring music festival competition for composers, and represented the Czech Republic at the meeting of young composers in Leipzig. He attended composition and conducting courses and seminars both in the Czech Republic and abroad, in |
Germany
and U.S. His compositions, too, were performed in
these countries. In spring 1998 he co-founded the Art-n association of artists, and in 1999 he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Prize. |