Jirí Habart

30, Czech Republic

Jirí Habart (born 1992) is a Czech conductor and violinist. He studied conducting at Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, under the leadership of Jakub Klecker and Tomás Hanus. Jirí Habart also studied the baroque violin. He was a 2014 Bayreuther Festspiele scholarship holder and attended courses with Tomás Netopil, Kirk Trevor, Zsolt Nagy and Mark Stringer.

He is currently conductor in opera house of the National Moravian-Silesian theatre in Ostrava, where he has conducted the following ballets and operas: Don Quijote (Minkus), The Nutcracker (Tchaikowsky), Le Corsaire (Adam), Dangerous liaisons (Maskats), Nabucco (Verdi), La Scuola de Gelosi (Salieri), Dalibor, Two Widows, The Bartered Bride (Smetana), Manon (Massenet), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Il ballo delle ingrate (Monteverdi).

He co-operates with Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, National Theatre Brno, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc and others Czech orchestras.

At the 2020 International Dvorák‘s Prague Festival, he was an assistant to conductor Tomás Netopil for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Instagram: @jiri_habart