Matyáš Houf is a Czech cornetto player specialising in Renaissance and Baroque music - the cornetto being a rare wind instrument whose golden age was 17th-century Venice. He came to the instrument through flute studies at the Royal College of Music in London. He now studies at the Musik-Akademie Basel, one of the very few institutions in the world where the cornetto can be studied systematically. Alongside performing, he paints and crafts his own copies of historical instruments.
Matyáš Houf became a scholarship recipient of The Kellner Family Foundation for studies at Musik-Akademie Basel.
Houf also received a scholarship from Bakala Foundation for studies at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz in Switzerland.
During his studies, Houf began making his own copies of historical zincs based on originals from London and Oxford collections.
Houf prepares programs for music festivals and is beginning to be invited by various ensembles and orchestras as a zinc player.
