Jiří Mittner

Jiří Mittner (*1980, Prague) is a composer, pianist and music teacher. He studied at the Prague Conservatory with Otomar Kvěch and further developed his compositional skills at master classes at Florida State University. He also holds a doctorate in economics.

From 2003 to 2006, he taught music theory to foreign students at the Prague Conservatory. His compositions were recorded and published by Czech Radio, while some of them gained recognition already during his studies. His Trumpet Sonata was recorded and released in 2021 in the United States at Baldwin Wallace University at the initiative of the trumpeter of the Cleveland Orchestra, one of America's most important symphonic ensembles.

His major works include the Violin Sonata, Trumpet Sonata, Piano Preludes, String Quartet, Symphony No. 1, and Symphonic Variations. He also devoted himself to creating music for documentary films.

Between 2008 and 2022, he worked in the field of IT management for financial corporations in Prague, Belgrade, Vienna and Kyiv. From 2022, he is again dedicated to music as a composer and pianist. He comes from a musical family – his grandfather Václav Pokorný (1918–2011) was a composer and arranger whose legacy is still remembered in the Czech Republic.