Miroslav Košler – Honorary Music Director

Miroslav Košler is a distinctive leading personality of Czech conductors’ scene. He has been working as Music Director of the Prague Mixed Choir since 1951. The choir has been subjected outstanding successes already in 23 European countries, Japan, Israel and USA under his baton.

He has been most successful at many prestigious music festivals – Prague Spring, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Bruckner Musikfestival Linz, Hollandfestival, Bodensee Musikfestival, etc.

Among the heights of his career belongs his successful cooperation with world-famous conductors as f.i. Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Mutti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Kent Nagano, Jiří Bělohlávek and Vladimír Válek and their interpretation of oratorios of Dvořák, Wagner, Berlioz, Mahler, Schönberg and Stravinsky.

As a respected expert Miroslav Košler is often asked to participate in juries of many international choral competitions and he also works as music director of choral courses in Pamplona and Avila. Miroslav Košler is artistic director of an international choral competition "Praga cantat" and a prestigious Prague opera and symphonic festival "Prague Winter".

Since 1993 Miroslav Košler works as professor of choral conducting at Prague Conservatory and also at Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He works as permanent guest choirmaster of Prague Philharmonic Choir.

Jan Steyer – Second Conductor

 Jan Steyer (born 1982 in Liberec) studied organ play and conducting at Prague Conservatory and after his graduation continued his studies on this field at Musical Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he graduated in 2010. Beside his studies he participated at many courses conducted by prominent personalities of world music and focused on interpretation of both early and contemporary music. During his conservatory studies he started his conductor´s career as artistic director of vocal-instrumental ensemble Collegium Carmina Antiqua, engaged in interpretation of early music and worked as choirmaster of Prague Girls´ Chorus. Beside his choirmaster´s work with the Prague Mixed Choir he is also engaged as conductor of Symphonic orchestra of Jindřichův Hradec and artistic director of ČVUT Mixed Choir.

Pavel TOWEN Veselý – Vocal Pedagogue

Vocal pedagogue Pavel TOWEN Veselý began his cooperation with our choir in September 2010. Towen is not only a vocal pedagogue, but also an actor, singer, choreographer and dancer. He studied singing at „Music Conservatory” at a famous artist Jan Soumar. In 1977 he started his dance studies at Frank Towen and took over not only Towen´s Dance School later, but also his artistic name TOWEN. The children chorus of his Musical Studio of the same name represented our country at festival Macuri/Haku in Japan.

He directed original Czech musical written by J. Helekal and J. Sůsa “Fairytale of A Water Nymph for the”Musical Studio Towen". Since 1992 he performed mainly in musicals (Jesus Christ Superstar, L´Écume des Jours, Evita, Dybbuk, Dracula, etc.) He played a triple role of Jester in Dracula, Danglars and Father Dantese in Monte Christo. He performed as guest drama actor not only in the Red Rooster Theatre (Divadlo u hasičů) but also on stage of the Prague State Opera in the “Tin Soldier”. After the bankruptcy of MontE musical Ltd. he engages only in the pedagogical work. He does not apply himself only to professional singers and actors, but also to new talents and lately to choral work.

For more info please see: www.towen.cz