Zdeněk Mácal  

Zdeněk Mácal was born on 8 January 1936 in Brno. He is a graduate of the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts under professors B. Bakala, F. Jílek and J. Veselka. His first place of work was the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc (1963-67). During those times, he participated in the international conducting competition in Besancon and won. He later won a prestigious conducting competition in New York. In 1966–68, he was the conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, and then worked abroad from 1968: in Cologne and Chicago; from 1982 he was the music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, then the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, etc. He returned to Prague in 2001 as the principal conductor of the FOK Symphony Orchestra, and he has been the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003. His interpretations of Czech music, but also of Mahler, Beethoven and other representatives of the world repertoire, are always a truly extraordinary experience.

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