Michal Mašek

The Czech pianist, Michal Mašek, has covered a long and successful distance in music. His musical talent was discovered early in his childhood. At the age on 3 he was able to interpret melodies of folk songs that he had heard and then immediately played on his children’s piano. They were particularly folk songs played in all keys that accompanied Michal in his beginning, and influenced his musical development. As an eight years old pianist he was fascinating his audience with a brilliant playing of folk songs and theatre melodies composed by Jaroslav Ježek for Osvobozenי divadlo in Prague. In 1991 he started to study with Professor Petr Slavםk of Teplice Conservatory. When he was 14, he started at its zero class, and a year later he won the School piano competition. As a student of professor Slavםk he obtained important musical awards at several international musical competitions.