Brzobohatý Ondřej Gregor

At the elementary art school in Biskupská Street he learned to play the violin against his will from the age of five. Due to his poor grades at primary school, however, he had no choice but to stay with music, so he studied and, to his surprise, graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in composition, piano and conducting. Since the conservatory, besides playing the piano and hanging around cafés, he also studied film music privately with a real composer, Milan Kymlicka. Thanks to him, he also picked up the baton in collaboration with Michal Horáček and Petr Hapka, for whom in 2009, with a great deal of courage and audacity, he created the orchestration and composed the incidental music for the lyric Kudy- kam and collaborated as a music producer on their latest album Tante cosa da veder, which, however, nobody knows at all. Between 2004 and 2010, with a touch of luck, he created incidental music for the theatre productions The House of Bernarda Alba, Momentary Weakness, The Lion in Winter, The Bouncers, Bartenders, Wouldn't You Like Nobel, The Trigger, The Dance Hall, Twelve Angry Men and Ten Little Black Men. He wrote his first film score for the television film Forbidden Man (2009) by Dušan Klein, followed by other unexpected offers to create incidental music for the TV series Let the Knights Live, Confectionery, Čapek's Pockets, Gympl s.r.o, The Labyrinth, Docent, Iveta, Good News, and even films. He is also the author of many well-known songs for many well-known artists, such as Karel Gott, Hana Zagorova, Dara Rolins and Helena Vondráčková. Surprisingly, he has contributed to Richard Müller's albums 55 and Black Swan, White Crow. He has not only had many scandals, but also his solo albums Identity and Universum, of which Identity received a platinum album, probably by mistake. As a composer of music, he voluntarily signed his name to the musical I, Francois Villon, in which he set the libretto by Jiří Hubač and especially the lyrics by Pavel Vrba. With the renowned Slovak poet Ľubomir Feldek, he wrote a musical for the Radek Brzobohatý Theatre. His first musical as the author of the libretto, music and lyrics for the Karlín Music Theatre was the unbearably long and unnecessarily overcombined musical The Legend of Holmes, which the theatre, probably out of sympathy, still has on its repertoire. The musical Sun, Hay, Strawberries is probably his most daring work, and he will again be deservedly ashamed of it, as he has been of all his published works to date. The only thing in his work to which Ondřej attaches real value and weight, however, is the writing of his biography for the theatre programme.