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Colours of Ostrava festival promoter

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Production of Nerduny fest.cz (festivals Praha žije hudbou, Mladí ladí jazz, Festival svobody)

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United Islands of Prague and Metronome Festival promoter

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Alex Švamberk is a Czech writer and journalist who originally graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Technical University. However, he never devoted himself to this field, on the contrary, he decided to work for many newspapers and magazines. Initially, he focused on musical topics and for a long time contributed to the acclaimed music magazine "Muzikus". At present, however, Švamberk's focus is completely different and his articles can be read mainly on the Novinky.cz internet server, for which he works as a foreign editor. In this work, he focuses mainly on war conflicts in the Korean Peninsula, the Balkans, but also Ukraine and South Africa. However, he still focuses on music, especially in his literature, but also in reviews of contemporary music news, often of marginal genres (eg industrial or hard core). Švamberk published three books, two of which dealt mainly with the beginnings of the punk scene, the last one after the war in Korea, which took place in the 1950s and in which Czechoslovak soldiers were also deployed as part of a peacekeeping mission. So you can read from the author "Deployed in Korea", "No Future!", Or "Don't be fooled again".

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After an episode with a student radio program, he joined the then completely new Radio Proglas in 1995 and has been working as the head of the music department for the whole time. In addition to the musical dramaturgy of the all-day broadcast, he is in charge of a number of programs, including his author's weekly Listen, People! (in which he focuses on topics related to world music, jazz, folk and alternative music) or conducting musical interviews from the daily cycle How Do You Like It (in which he moderated thousands of interviews with musicians). He collaborates externally with the Czech Radio Jazz station, as a writing music publist he contributes to the Cultural Magazine UNI, Harmonie, the Catholic Weekly, the Polish magazine Twój Blues or the portal Brno - město hudby. He is a professional guarantor of the Anděl Awards in the Folk and Jazz genre categories. He is the author of a book interview with violinist Jan Hrubý. He is a member of the panel of European radio publicists World Music Charts Europe and in the autumn of 2020 he took over the leadership of this panel after its founder Johannes Theurer.

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Rock for People festival promoter

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Although he received his doctorate in the theory of photographic and multimedia creation, most of all he will probably be a music publicist. A certain formative time for him participated in the running of Živel magazine. Over the years, he has published in Rock & Pop, Reflex and MF Dnes. He collaborated with Radio Wave. He co-founded the beautiful picture magazine Komfort. In 2007–2009 he worked for the Aktuálně server. He became a member of the Respekt editorial office on April 1, 2010.

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Editor of Fakker magazine

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D Smack U Promotion promoter

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He does not come from an artistic environment, but he has music as a listener as well as a non-professional pianist and organist close to his childhood. After high school, he studied musicology at Charles University. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a journalist, music and opera critic and author of texts about music and musicians. For over twenty years he was a ČTK correspondent focused on music, culture and churches, and since 2007 he has been the music editor of the Vltava station at Czech Radio for ten years, for which he continues to work as a publicist. At the same time, it is one of the long-standing guides to broadcasting Czech Radio in D major, a digital classical music station. Since the 1980s, in addition to his employment, he has been continuously contributing to professional Czech music monthly, dailies and magazines. He prepared interviews and wrote musical reflections for Lidové and Hospodářské noviny, publishes in Týdeník Rozhlas also on the Internet, writes texts for concert programs and CD covers. He is the author of the book Václav Snítil and his half-century of Czech music. He considers classical music to be an irreplaceable part of human life and tries to persuade others to do so. He travels to music as enthusiastically as he likes to walk in the mountains and take photos. He still searches for classical music of all periods, forms and genres, listens with pleasure and continues to get to know him. In June 2018, he therefore became a co-founder of the music portal KlasikaPlus.cz.

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