Robert Kružík
Cellist and conductor Robert Kružík was born in Brno in 1990. From the age of six he attended private cello lessons with Bedřich Havlík. He continued his studies at the Brno Conservatory, where in addition to playing the cello under the direction of Miroslav Zicha, he also enrolled in the field of conducting. He developed his previous conducting experience, acquired privately with Evžen Holiš, at the conservatory in the class of Stanislav Kummer. As one of the best graduates, he continued his conservatory studies by participating in many master classes (with J. Podhoranský, J. Bárta, M. Fukačová and R. Wallfisch) and as a student at HAMU in Prague. There he again studies both disciplines: conducting (currently with Charles Olivieri – Munro, Leoš Svárovský and Lubomír Mátl) and playing the cello with Miroslav Petráš. In the academic year 2012/2013, he attended the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Switzerland. Robert Kružík has demonstrated his talent in many cello competitions, e.g. at the Concertino Praga, at the Dotzauer in Dresden, at the Leoš Janáček International Competition and at the Prague Spring International Music Competition. In 2012, he won the first prize and a special prize for the interpretation of the work of Bohuslav Martinů in the competition of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation. He was a member of the Moravian Chamber Orchestra for five years, in 2008 he debuted as a soloist with the Brno Philharmonic and the Bohuslav Martinů Zlín Philharmonic. He has been a part of the Matys String Quartet since 2006. Since the 2013/2014 season, he has been included in the Youth List of the Czech Music Fund Foundation.
With the same verve which he devotes himself to the cello, Robert Kružík also conducts. While still studying at the conservatory in Brno, he developed his conducting skills as the chief conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Blansko and the Helfert Orchestral Association in Brno. Upon his arrival at the AMU in Prague, he received an offer to become the chief conductor of the Cologne Philharmonic, where he has been working for the fourth season. As part of the Summer Conducting Courses in Teplice in 2011, he performed the opera Così fan tutte in the Karlovy Vary Theater together with the North Bohemian Philharmonic in Teplice. In September 2012, he opened the Mladá Praha festival with the Pavel Haas Chamber Orchestra, in the same year he collaborated with the Prague Chamber Philharmonic and last year made his debut with the Brno Philharmonic. In the 2013/2014 season, among others, he collaborated with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra of Ostrava, Ensemble Opera Diversa. He regularly cooperates with many Czech orchestras, for example: PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Brno Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra and South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic. He worked with the Janáček Opera National Theater as an assistant conductor on the productions of the operas Maria di Rohan, Vec Makropulos, Hry o Marii and Tosca and as second conductor on the production of the opera Hubička. Since January 2016, he has been the conductor of the Janáček Opera NdB.
Repertoire in NdB
- Johann Strauss Gala - Dirigent
- Here I am, Orlando
- Manon Lescaut
- King Roger
- Glagolitic Mass / From the House of the Dead
- Otello
- Bluebeard’s Castle / Expectation
- Così fan tutte
- Swan Lake
- The Knight of the Rose
- The Cunning Little Vixen
- The Queen of Spades
- L’elisir d’amore
- La bohème
- Eugen Onegin
- The Devil and Kate
- Carmen
Upcoming performance
Così fan tutte
Subscription: O1- Today
- 19:00 - 22:10
Swan Lake
Lecturer's introduction before the performance Sold Out- Tomorrow
- 18:00 - 20:40
Swan Lake
Lecturer's introduction before the performance. Ksenia Ovsyanick and Alejandro Virelles will play the lead roles. Sold Out- 31/01/2025
- 19:00 - 21:40
Swan Lake
Lecturer's introduction before the performance Subscription: B2 Sold Out- 01/02/2025
- 18:00 - 20:40
Manon Lescaut
PREMIERE Subscription: PO- 07/02/2025
- 19:00
Manon Lescaut
Subscription: O3- 09/02/2025
- 18:00
La bohème
Derniéra Subscription: OV- 02/03/2025
- 17:00 - 19:30
Così fan tutte
Discussion after the performance- 11/03/2025
- 19:00 - 22:10
Johann Strauss Gala
The Paris Vienna Express and a little bit further, or all the best to Johann Strauss!- 21/03/2025
- 19:00
Così fan tutte
Derniéra- 26/03/2025
- 19:00 - 22:10
Manon Lescaut
Discussion after the performance Subscription: VJ, VJ1- 02/04/2025
- 19:00
Manon Lescaut
Subscription: O2- 20/04/2025
- 17:00
Manon Lescaut
Subscription: OV- 11/05/2025
- 18:00
Carmen
Lecturer's introduction before the performance- 14/05/2025
- 19:00 - 22:10
King Roger
PREMIERE Subscription: PO- 13/06/2025
- 19:00
King Roger
Lecturer's introduction before the performance + discussion after the performance Subscription: O1- 24/06/2025
- 19:00
