Kadeřábek’s music, “capturing a peculiarly evocative image” (New York Times), “well crafted and compelling with its playful banter” (New York Arts), “impressive, seriously made and also entertaining” (NY Classical Review), “reminding of cubist paintings by Picasso”, “with the aim of nullification of progression and logical association, the establishment of timelessness” and “almost always revealing some mischievous coup de théâtre, curiously shocking yet at the same time incontrovertibly one with the work” (BBC), has garnered numerous awards and nominations, been commissioned and performed by orchestras and ensembles in Europe, America and Asia and been broadcast by radio and television stations. Kadeřábek’s opera No Man was performed at the National Theatre in Prague for three seasons, conducted by the composer, the production was also repeatedly performed at the Theater Bremen, Germany and its film recording was released on DVD. Jiří Kadeřábek was born in 1978 in Zlín, Czech Republic, a region with strong and living Moravian folk tradition. He received a Ph.D. at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, spent a year as an Erasmus student at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and another year as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in New York. In the period of 2026–2027, Kadeřábek is taking part in one-year residency at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia Bamberg. In the Czech Republic as well as abroad he is active also as a singer and pianist, lately mostly within the Prague alternative music band Kino Jana Nerudy.
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