Born in Prague on 21 August 1928, died there on 13 July 2007; Zdenek Lukas was a composer. After graduating from a teachers’ training college he worked as a teacher from 1953 to 1963. He later became music editor and programme director at Czech Radio in Pilsen, where he also founded the mixed choir Ceska pisen and directed it for many years, writing and arranging much of its repertoire. For almost ten years he took consultations with Miloslav Kabelac, which acquainted him with modern compositional techniques including musique concrète and electronic music. In 1996 he founded the group Quattro together with Sylvie Bodorova, Lubos Fiser and Otmar Macha. His catalogue comprises more than 330 works, among them seven symphonies, six operas, numerous concertos, chamber and choral music; his musical language rests on modal principles and is shaped by Czech folk music. On the Cybele album The Invitation – Saxophone Quartets of the 20th Century (2007) he is represented as a composer with his “Rondo per 4 sassofoni”, written in 1970 for Sigurd Raschèr.
Zdenek Lukas
Composer
