Emil Viklický

Pianist and composer Emil Viklicky is one of the most prominent figures of the Czech music scene. In a synthetic approach has long since exceeded the boundaries of jazz. In addition to recordings with leading musicians, among whom we find basieovského veteran Joe Newman, pianist James Williams and one of the best guitarists Bill Frisell, and efforts to merge folk with jazz, he also wrote and contemporary music and opera Phaedra. With his trio plays a particularly creative compositions and arrangements of modern jazz standards.