JIŘÍ PAZOUR (*1971)

Jiri Pazour's artistic activity can be summarized in three areas - composition, concert and pedagogical. As a composer, he creates orchestral, chamber and solo compositions. His compositions are regularly broadcast by Czech Radio, are published on audio media and are on the regular repertoire of top Czech and foreign soloists and ensembles. In 2011 he won the 1st prize in the composition competition Tribune of Chamber Music Pilsen 2011 for the song cycle for soprano and piano for the lyrics of folk poetry "The Sun Darkened for Me". In 2015, at the concert of the Chamber Soloist of Detroit at the First Presbyterian Church of Farmington, the American premiere of his composition "Awakening of the Pearls" composed for violin, French horn and piano.
He is also heavily involved in children's work. A number of children's songs were created, for example on the lyrics of Jiří Žáček, Josef Kainar, Jiří Suchý, Robin Král. His songs for children are regularly broadcast on Czech Television in the programs Kouzelná školka and Muzicírování. Jitka Molavcová, Magdalena Reifová, Petr Vacek, etc. have them in their repertoire.

Jiri Pazour's solo concert activity is mainly focused on piano improvisation. "Evenings of Piano Improvisation by Jiri Pazour" are gaining great popularity at home and abroad due to their dynamism, spontaneity and diversity.
Since 2015 he has been cooperating with PhDr. Matej Lipsky PhD. in music therapy courses for the targeted use of sound and music for therapeutic purposes.
He has been teaching at the Prague Conservatory since 1995. He currently teaches the subject Sheet Music and Piano Improvisation at the department of Piano.

SELECTION OF WORKS :

Orchestral music

- Forgotten tales - Five movements for Symphony Orchestra / 2003 /
- Symphonic poem "Journey" / 1995 /
- Three concert movements for piano and orchestra / 1999 /
- Suite for String Orchestra / 1997 /
- Forgive My Love - chamber cantata for lower soprano, baritone and orchestra / 1993 /
- Capriccio for violin and orchestra / 1992 /
- Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra / 1994 /
- Symphonic poem for piano orchestra / 1990 /
- Meeting of two - poem for harp, French horn and chamber orchestra / 2018 /

Solo and chamber music

- Burlesque for accordion / 1990 /
- Poem for four-handed piano / 1997 /
- Tarantella per oboe, clarinetto, bassoon and piano / 1991 /
- Capriccio for violin and piano / 1992 /
- Transformations (for cello and piano) / 1992 /
- Four Melodramas / 2000 /
- The Happiest Boy (melodrama for male voice and piano to lyrics by W. Shakespeare)
- Fantasy for Trumpet and Organ / 1992 /
- Forgive My Love - chamber cantata for lower soprano, baritone and piano / 1993 /
- Piano Trio No. 1/1995 /
- Horizons (lyric poem for flute, violin, cello and piano) / 1998 /
- Ispirazzione mozartiana per oboe, clarinetto, fagotto e pianoforte / 2000 /
- Abandoned Voice (for alto, violin, cello and piano) / 2002 /
- Moto perpetuo (for flute, violin, viola, cello and accordion) / 2003 /
- Remembrance of Classics (Sonata for Violin and Piano) / 2004 /
- Awakening of Pearls (for violin, French horn and piano) / 2008 /
- Red Celebration (suite for solo harp ) / 2005 /
- The Sun Darkened for me (cycle of songs for soprano and piano to the words of folk poetry) / 2010 /
- Partita per flute traverso e cembalo / 2010 /
- Gallop (for violin and accordion) / 2014 /
- Romance for violin and harp / 2020 /

Work for children

- Songs to the lyrics of Jiří Žáček / 1990 /
- Abraka dabraka (Songbook and CD with songs to the lyrics of Czech poets - released by ARSCI in 2009)

Teaching compositions

- Variations on a folk song for piano / 1989 /
- Scherzo for piano / 1991 /
- Lame ragtime / 1995 /
- Picolezza per contrabasso solo / 1990 /
- The little black boy (Ragtime for four-hand piano) / 2007 /
- Train (for four-hand piano) / 2007 /
- I'm coming back, my country / 2020 /