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Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech composer, instrumentalist (pianist, organist, keyboard player, vocalist), and sound designer.

Biography
Hirsch's collaborative projects have never interrupted his solo output. He has continuously composed an extensive collection of music, foremost a number of conceptual or thematic albums, including symphonies, suites, concert works, soundtracks, and many experimental compositions, including works for his favourite instruments: organ and piano. He has been influenced by various 20th-century compositional techniques, including serial, atonal, microtonal, polymodal, spectral and others, being also partly inspired by Czech and other Slavic classical music, however his style has gradually emerged into what Hirsch calls "integrated music", characterized by an effort to break the borders between primarily musical and unmusical elements in composition and instrumentation, attempting to both equalize and enhance their expressive properties using technological manipulation, above all in the wide area of digital technology and described as an alchemical transmutation of modern classical forms with dark ambient, industrial and noise components into a homogenous indivisible structure. It also represents metaphysically the central idea of Vladimír Hirsch's concept, which consists in the collision and reconciliation of two seemingly spiritually opposite worlds inside an individual. Vladimír Hirsch performs regularly in his native Czechia and abroad (above all in Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Italy, where he published) both his solo and collaborative projects. He has had a US tour in 2001, and has appeared in many European festivals.