Miloš Bok

Miloš Bok (born 16 January 1968) is a Czech composer, conductor, pianist, organist, choirmaster and music educator. Life and career Miloš Bok was born on 16 January 1968 in Prague. He graduated in piano playing in 1988 at the Prague Conservatory under Jaromír Kříž and, shortly after, became pianist and composer Josef Páleníček’s last student at the Prague Academy of Music, where he studied until the latter’s death (1991). During his youth, he has won six prizes in various national and international piano competitions. Under the communist regime, he was prevented from studying conducting and composition. After the fall of the totalitarian regime, he has studied conducting under Mario Klemens, again at the Prague Conservatoire (1991–1993). Numerous important Czech orchestras and choirs have performed under Bok’s baton (the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague National Theatre Orchestra…). His work is documented on a whole series of recordings (over twenty-five CDs as of 2018 ), and he has been the subject and appeared in many programmes for the Czech Radio and the Czech Television. In 1998, together with several other musicians and artists, he