Kryštof Mařatka is a Czech composer, conductor and pianist. Born in Prague in 1972, he studied at the Prague Conservatoire and since 1994 has divided his life between Prague and Paris. He has written dozens of works - chamber, orchestral, melodrama and film music. What drives him is the root of sound: he collects wooden and bone instruments from Bohemia and Moravia, tracks them down and reconstructs them himself, then sets their raw tone against classical ensembles. In his scores a goat horn, a koncovka or a bone flute sit beside strings and piano. In 2006 he took both the main prize and the audience prize at the Tansman competition in Lodz, the first prize in Shanghai a year later, and then the Pierre Cardin Prize from the French Academy of Fine Arts. In the 2022/23 season he was composer in residence with the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine in Paris. His music is played at festivals in Prague, Paris and beyond - among it the cello concerto Astrophonia, the chamber piece Báchorky and the violin concerto SANCTUARIES, commissioned by the Prague Spring festival.
He was composer in residence with the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine in Paris.
