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Zdenek Bartak
12+ albums
SoundtrackClassicalToonstruckinstrumentalgood
about
Zdenek Bartak was born in Prague in 1954. As a child he started studying music /piano playing/ at the Art School, later he continued his studies at the State Conservatory in Prague and his majors were composing, piano and tuba playing. Still as a teenager he was performing in public with the orchestra of his father Zdenek Bartak Sr. who used to be a popular big band leader mainly in the fifties, sixties and seventies. Later he founded his own band and toured successfully Czechoslovakia with several well known Czech solo singers and actors. At the same time Zdenek Bartak also started composing and right from the beginning his songs were hits performed by famous Czech singers. Several of his songs written for the very popular Czech singer Michal David were even awarded golden and platinum discs and the sales of the respective sound carriers released by Supraphon Record Company reached between 500.000 and 1000.000 units. This success was followed by an offer to perform with “Kroky”, that time the most popular Czech pop band, Zdenek Bartak accepted it and for three years has been touring with them Czechoslovakia and several other European countries as keyboard player and singer. In 1989 Zdenek Bartak stopped performing and started his career as a composer, especially of film and theater music. He became a sole composer of the well known Czech film director Jaroslav Soukup and in the years 1979 -–1999 wrote music for all his 16 feature films, several of them like “Backstreet L
