He has spent most of the last twelve years on the Prague club scene, where he has organized hundreds of events, co-founded the Žižkov Night Club and the anti-fascist open air festival Riot Over River. He used to be a band manager and booked Czech tours for foreign performers, currently he is booking concerts for the Holešovice Cross Club. It emphasizes varied dramaturgy, cooperation, reciprocity and cooperation instead of competition, regardless of the genre or origin of the band. An important criterion not only in music is overlap and message.
He’s been compiling the radio show Hudba na pomezí (Borderland Music) for the Vltava station at Czech Radio since 1988. Petr was a member of the jury at the Sajanskoje kolco festival in Siberia between 2003 and 2005 and was appointed as one of 7 Samurais at the Womex Fair in 2007. He has been the only Czech member of the radio panel for the World Music Charts Europe since 1992 and has been lecturing World Music Culture at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University since 2002.
He’s been writing about music since the ’60s, is the author of the biography Šuplík plný Zappy (a drawer full of Zappa), having compiled and contributed to the Hudba na pomezí anthology while also contributed to the book Beaty Bigbeaty Breakbeaty (Beats, Bigbeats Breakbeats). He regularly writes for the magazines Rock & Pop and UNI. He runs the website kenhunt.doruzka.com together with his London-based colleague, Ken Hunt.
Since 2013, he has been the editor-in-chief of the online music magazine musicweb.cz, where he also started as an editor. Previously, he contributed articles for the web magazine topzine.cz. In music, he focuses mainly on jazz fusion, but he also loves rock music from art-rock to hard rock. All his life he has been fascinated by the work of composer Frank Zappa.
He worked in the Municipal Library in Prague, is a co-founder of the magazine HIS Voice and since 2015 editor-in-chief, writes for A2, Aktuálně, ČRo - Wave, Full Moon, Lidové noviny, Salon Práva, etc.
He graduated in the Presentation and Protection of Cultural Heritage and History at the University of Hradec Králové. After a year of practice in the Náchod Museum, he accompanied the fortress town of Josefov. He also wrote for the zine The Aardvark. He has been a freelance publicist since 2018. He operates on FM waves. He writes for Finmag, Frontman and Full Moon.
Professional work
-Operal and cultural journalist since 1980
-Editor in publishing houses, printed and electronic media
-Director of the OPERA Festival, the largest opera festival in the Czech Republic (1999 - 2001)
-Member of the opera jury of the Thalia Award, announced by the Actors' Association (1998 - now)
-Art-Production Coordinator for the Czech Republic International Music Festival Festival - Prague - Europe (1991 - 1994) under the auspices of the Council of Europe
-Director of the first complete performance of Bohuslav Martinů's operas (1990)
Publishing activity
-Sadie, Stanley, ed .: New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 volumes. The Macmillan Press Limited, London 1992 - 94. (contributor)
-Hostomská, Anna, Havlíková, Helena and others: Opera Guide. 8th and next edition, Svoboda, Prague 1995.
-Regler-Bellinger, Brigitte and Others: The Great Encyclopedia of Opera. Supplements to the Czech edition Helena Havlíková and Jitka Ludvová. Mladá fronta, Prague 1996.
-Havlíková, Helena: Catalog of Czech Music and Drama. Dilia, Prague 1983. Also English, German and Russian versions.
-Dalhaus, Karl, ed .: Pipers Opernenzyklopädie. 8 volumes, Piper GmbH, Munich, Zurich 1986-1997. (contributor)
-Hundreds of articles on opera and media in Czech and foreign newspapers, magazines (especially Lidové noviny, Harmonie, Hudební rozhledy, Svět a divadlo, Czech Music, Opéra International, Opera), hundreds of radio programs, appearances at international and national conferences, workshops, seminars, press conferences
