Artistic Director, David Štech
David Štech's career has spanned four continents where he has conducted, coached, played and prepared hundreds of performances of operas, orchestra concerts, choral concerts, and recitals. He studied the piano, organ, trombone, voice, conducting and accompanying. His philosophy of teaching is an amalgam of the techniques of his many conducting teachers, including Kurt Masur, Larry Rachleff, Gustav Meier, Christoph von Dohnányi, Otto Werner-Müller, Kirk Trevor, Jorge Mester, Robert Spano, Zdeněk Mácal, Sir Roger Norrington, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, James Paul, Michael Morgan, Don Schleicher, Ken Kiesler, JoAnn Falletta, Paul Nadler, Michael Jinbo, Victor Yampolsky, and Cliff Colnot.
An alumnus of the Pierre Monteux School, Northwestern University, Tanglewood, he has conducted The Florida Orchestra, Opera Theater of Lucca (Italy), Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic (Czech Republic), New Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Ash Lawn Opera (VA), Opera in Williamsburg (VA), Opera in the Ozarks (AR), Chicago Choral Artists, American Opera Group (Chicago), New York Composers' Collective, Astoria Symphony Orchestra (NYC), Orquestra Sinfónica Uncuyo (Argentina), the Acadamy of Performing Arts (Hong Kong), Amore Opera (NYC), North Shore Chamber Orchestra (Chicago), and many others.
He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Space, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), and recently at Lincoln Center, conducting Die Walküre. Professor Štech currently teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, is associate conductor at Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble (NYC), assistant conductor of St. Petersburg Opera (FL), and is Organist and Choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church (NJ).
To learn more about David, please visit http://www.david-stech.com/ .
An alumnus of the Pierre Monteux School, Northwestern University, Tanglewood, he has conducted The Florida Orchestra, Opera Theater of Lucca (Italy), Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic (Czech Republic), New Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Ash Lawn Opera (VA), Opera in Williamsburg (VA), Opera in the Ozarks (AR), Chicago Choral Artists, American Opera Group (Chicago), New York Composers' Collective, Astoria Symphony Orchestra (NYC), Orquestra Sinfónica Uncuyo (Argentina), the Acadamy of Performing Arts (Hong Kong), Amore Opera (NYC), North Shore Chamber Orchestra (Chicago), and many others.
He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Space, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), and recently at Lincoln Center, conducting Die Walküre. Professor Štech currently teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, is associate conductor at Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble (NYC), assistant conductor of St. Petersburg Opera (FL), and is Organist and Choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church (NJ).
To learn more about David, please visit http://www.david-stech.com/ .