S3 Jaroslav Pelikán (1970) - Between flute, composition and opera

Jaroslav Pelikán studied flute at the Prague Conservatory with Jan Riedlbauch and composition with Jindřich Feld. He continued his studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague: flute with František Čech and Jiří Válek; composition with Václav Riedlbauch and Juraj Filas. In the years 1992—1993, he worked as a freelance musician in Brazil. Since 1996, he has been the principal flautist of the orchestra of the National Theater in Prague. As a soloist, he appears with many orchestras in the Czech Republic and abroad. In 2007, he was invited as a teacher to attend master classes organized by the Federal University in Brazil.

As a composer, he mainly creates instrumental music. Worthy of note are his concertos for oboe (performed, among other places, in Tokyo in the presence of a Japanese princess), flute, guitar, and double bass (commissioned for the International Prague Spring Music Competition in 2002), Wind Quintet, Stabat Mater, Symphony in B flat major, Bethlehem Mass, etc. For the oboe category of the Prague Spring Music Competition in 2008, he composed Sonatina.

The concert within the S series of the PKF—Prague Philharmonia will feature his chamber music, performed by him as a guest.