Vit Micka ( czech. Vít Micka ; born December 1, 1935 ) - Czech composer and conductor . The son of a music teacher, Josef Mitsky .
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Despite the fact that Mitsky's father was one of the leading violin teachers in the Czech Republic, Vit Micka studied piano from childhood; his first mentor was Ilya Gurnik , who was related to his family. Then he graduated from the Prague Academy of Music , where he studied conducting with Vaclav Smetaczek and composition with Vaclav Dobiash .
In 1968-1981 The second conductor of the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra , for some time combined this position with work at the Karlsruhe Opera House. In 1981-1989 Chief conductor of the Pilsen Radio Orchestra .
Since 1998 she has been teaching at the Academy of Music in Prague. In 2013, the Academy Publishing House published a textbook “A Book on Conducting” ( Czech Knížka o dirigování ).
Mitsk's composer's legacy consists mainly of chamber compositions, often programmatic, such as the introduction and the piano for the piano “The Bear and Weasel” ( czech. Medvěd a lasička ; 2002), the duet for two violins “The Stone and the Drop” ( czech Kámen a kapka ; 2004), Serenade for flute and piano “Summer in the Garden of Bach” ( czech Jaro v Bachově ; 2006), etc. Mitsky’s orchestral works are few, among them, however, Concertino for piano, strings, which won some fame in the Czech Republic , trumpets and timpani, as well as “Hello New England” for piano and orchestra, The premiere of which took place in 1998 in Boston during the tours of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in the USA.