Vít Zouhar (born 13 March 1966, Brno) is a Czech composer, musicologist and professor at Palacký University Olomouc and the Music Faculty of JAMU Brno. He studied composition under Miloslav Ištván and Alois Piňos at JAMU, then with Younghi Pagh-Paan in Graz, and musicology at Masaryk University. He has written or co-written eleven operas and more than sixty orchestral, chamber and electroacoustic works, performed at venues ranging from the National Theatre Prague to Pražské jaro and international festivals. Son of composer Zdeněk Zouhar, he co-founded the music-education programme Slyšet jinak in 2001.
Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc has included in the 2026/2027 season the world premiere of a new Zouhar composition for MFO together with a revival of Gates of the Sun (5. 11. 2026, soloists Dan Dlouhý and DAMA DAMA, conductor Robert Kružík).
Opera La Dafne (Hanzlík/Zouhar) is included in the Summer Baroque Stage in August 2026.
Zouhar's music was heard in the production of Pinocchio (co-authors Hanzlík and Košťál) at the South Bohemian Theatre České Budějovice.
The world premiere of the sound performance Leaving Room (Andrikopoulos, Medek, Medková, Zouhar) took place in September 2024 at Teatro Helena Sá e Costa in Porto.
