Jirí Stivín
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Jiří Stivín is a Czech flute player and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague is a university level school of music, dance, drama, film, TV and multi-media studies.- Faculties :*Film and TV School - FAMU*Music Faculty - HAMU*Theatre Faculty - DAMU-Notable alumni:...

 (FAMU). He also studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 as well as at the Prague Academy of Music (AMU).

Stivín performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque periods. As a sololist, he performed with the Prague Symphony Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra
The Prague Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 by Rudolf Pekárek. In the 1930s the orchestra performed the scores for many Czech films, and also appeared regularly on Czech radio. An early promoter of the orchestra was Dr...

, with the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, with Suk Chamber Orchestra
Suk Chamber Orchestra
The Suk Chamber Orchestra is a classical chamber orchestra named after the composer Josef Suk.It was founded by the violinist Josef Suk in 1974, on the centenary of his grandfather, the composer Josef Suk. The orchestra currently serves as resident orchestra at the W.A. Mozart Festival...

, Barocco sempre giovane
Barocco sempre giovane
Barocco sempre giovane is a professional Czech chamber orchestra.Barocco sempre giovane was founded in 2004 by a violoncellist Josef Krečmer. It is a chamber ensemble consisting of young musicians, standing organist and harpsichordist is Pavel Svoboda, concert master is Iva Kramperová...

 as well as with several other ensembles. He is also involved in jazz, both as a performer and as a composer. He gives regular lectures at the Prague Conservatory
Prague Conservatory
Prague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...

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Stivín is also famous jazz musician in Czech Republic still active in the Jazz Quartet. He is an extreme player of flute, sax, tube, bottle, etc. performing amazing improvisations.

Stivín has a large discography ranging from jazz to classical music.

His daughter Zuzana Stivínová is an actress.

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