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Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory
Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, (Konzervatoř Jaroslava Ježka), located in Prague, Czech Republic, is a secondary school specializing in contemporary music. Known primarily as a school for jazz and commercial music, it also offers a six-year undergraduate diploma in Classical music, composition, conducting, scriptwriting and musical theatre. Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory offers instruction in piano, guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass, upright bass, flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, percussion instruments, accordion and voice.

History
In 1958, pianist-composer-educator Vadim Petrov founded People’s Art School - courses for working people, the precursor to the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. At the time of its founding, all music schools of the former Czechoslovakia focused primarily on Classical music, but People’s Art School offered training in jazz and commercial music for radio, theater and television. Unfortunately, the school wasn’t able to attain the status of conservatory for ideology reasons until 1990, the year after the Velvet Revolution. From the very beginning the personality of Jaroslav Ježek stood as an artistic and human inspiration. When the school finally managed to become a conservatory at the end of 1980s, the name of this impresario was accepted in the title of the school. In 1998, all the facilities of Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory moved into one building in Roškotova 4/1692, Prague 4.

Selected Faculty
Milan Svoboda

Jaromír Honzák

Milan Tesař

Svatopluk Košvanec

Libor Šmoldas