Jiří Houdek

A graduate of the Prague Conservatory and HAMU Prague, participant in many master classes abroad and laureate of the international radio competition Concertino Praga 1995. He performed as a soloist with a number of Czech orchestras (SOČR, PKF, ČNSO) and foreign orchestras (Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra), he recorded his first CD with J. N. Hummel and J. Haydn concerts at the age of 16. Another CD followed in 2018 and 2022, when the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra recorded masterful Baroque works by F. X. Richter, L. Mozart, M. Haydn and J. S. Bach.

Jiří Houdek is the first trumpeter of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and The orchestra of the National Theater in Prague. In 2022, he becomes a member of Schagerl Artists, a company that produces brass instruments. He currently also plays the instruments of the Austrian company Schagerl.

From 2023, Jiří Houdek will teach at the Jan Deyl Conservatory.