Vratislav Vlna

Vratislav Vlna is an oboist, soloist of the National Theater Orchestra.

Vratislav Vlna (1975) studied oboe at the Prague Conservatory with prof. František Kimel and at the Academy of Performing Arts with prof. Jiří Mihul. He participated in foreign interpretation courses in Germany (Bonn 1993) and Switzerland (Vevey 1993) and became the winner of the radio competition Concertino Praga 1992.

Since 1996 he has been the 1st oboist of the National Theater Orchestra. In the years 1999–2009, he also worked as solo oboist of the Prague Chamber Orchestra without a conductor, with whom he gave concerts all over Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia. He also collaborates with Virtuosi di Praga, St. Gellért Academy and with Solistes Européens Luxembourg. As a soloist, he performs with the orchestras Virtuosi di Praga, the Pilsen Philharmonic, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra of Mariánské Lázně, the Prague String Orchestra and also with the National Theater Orchestra. courses of solo and chamber music Ameropa. In addition to the baroque and classical-romantic repertoire, Vratislav Vlna also devotes himself to contemporary music – he premiered his brother Vladimír Vlna's Concerto for oboe and large orchestra with the Pilsen Philharmonic and participated in the performance of his chamber opera The Nightingale and the Rose in Leipzig and Pilsen.