Miloš Bok

Miloš Bok was born on 16 January 1968 in Prague. He graduated in piano playing in 1988 at the Prague Conservatory under Jaromír Kříž and, shortly after, became pianist and composer Josef Páleníček’s last student at the Prague Academy of Music, where he studied until the latter's death (1991). During his youth, he has won six prizes in various national and international piano competitions. Under the communist regime, he was prevented from studying conducting and composition. After the fall of the totalitarian regime, he has studied conducting under Mario Klemens, again at the Prague Conservatoire (1991–1993). Numerous important Czech orchestras and choirs have performed under Bok's baton (the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague National Theatre Orchestra...). His work is documented on a whole series of recordings (over twenty-five CDs as of 2018), and he has been the subject and appeared in many programmes for the Czech Radio and the Czech Television. In 1998, together with several other musicians and artists, he founded the Elgar Art Society. He is an active organist in the dioceses of Plzeň and Litoměřice. Since 1987, he has been teaching in various music schools. As part of his pedagogic activities, since 1999, he is leading the Western Bohemia St Cecilia Sinfonietta, an ensemble formed of students of Karlovy Vary’s elementary and music schools in which he had been teaching during the years 1999–2016. In 2002–2011, he has also been leading the Karlovy Vary Mixed Choir. In 2017, the Czech copyright protection Association OSA has awarded him with the awards of Most Successful Classical Music Composer and of Classical Composition of the Year. Miloš Bok lives with his wife and seven children on a presbytery in the village of Močidlec, in Western Bohemia.

• The Gnomes from the Valley of Křinice (1993) • Saint Zdislava (2001) • The Apocalypse on the Slopes of Kamenice (2018)

• Missa Solemnis (1986) • Missa Brevis in E flat major (1987) • Missa Brevis in F sharp major (1988)

• Lord Have Mercy on us (1996) • Symphonic Carols (1998) • Christ Our Lord is Born (1999) • Hymn to the Holy Spirit (2005) • Dreamy Carols (2005) • Valse Allegro e Tranquillo (2005) • Credo in F Sharp Minor (2006) • Alleluia Be Alive (2007) • I Believe in One Church (2008) • Canticum Ex Apocalypsa (2008) • De Profundis (2010) • Psalm 131 (2010) • Christ Our Lord is Born (2010) • Magnificat (2011) • Beata Viscera (2019)

• Vokovician Symphony (1984, fragment) • Tisian Piano Concerto (1985, fragment) • An Angel of the Lord – symphonic suite (2005) • The Girl Who Stepped on Bread – symphonic suite (2007) • Prelude and Fugue in F Sharp Major (2007) • Three Lives – symphonic suite (2007) • Funeral Music (2008) • Symphony in E Major "The Apocalypse on the Slopes of Kamenice" (2018)

• Choral Chants for Trappist Monastery (2001) • Hymn to the Holy Spirit (2005) • De Profundis (2008) • Psalm 22 (2009) • Psalm 131 (2010) • Magnificat (2011)

• Ave Maria (2000) • Evening Marian Song (2010) • Beata Viscera (2010)

• Chamber Carols for flute, trumpet, timpani, organ and string quartet with double bass (2007)

• Symphonic Carols (1998) • Symphonic Fanfares (1999) • Litany of the Saints (2002) • Small Suite (2006) • Saint Wenceslas Intrada (2007) • Pentecostal Intrada (2008) • Funeral Music (2008) • Advent Intrada (2012) • Church Suite (2015) • Intrada in Honour of Blessed Hroznata (2019)

• Křinice Suite for horn and string quartet (2008) • String Quartet in E Major "The Apocalypse on the Slopes of Kamenice" (2014)

• Dreamy Carols for trumpet and organ (2005)

• Saint Zdislava Sonata (2001) • Žlutice Fugue on 364 52 (2002) • Dobřany Fugue on 334 41 (2003) • Pohled Fugue on 582 21 (2003) • Stará Role Fugue on 360 17 (2005) • Credo Sonata in F Sharp Minor (2006) • Prelude and Fugue in F Sharp Major (2007) • Prelude in B Flat Major (2019)

• Biblic Stories (1991)

• Jaroslav Pelikán, Oboe Concerto, tr. for oboe and piano (1997) • Jaroslav Novák, Arianna, tr. for symphonic orchestra (1997) • Jean-Gaspard Páleníček, Notturno, tr. for symphonic orchestra (1997) • Jiří Strejc, Missa Lux et Origo, rev. (1998) • Jaroslav Pelikán, Bassoon Concerto, tr. for bassoon and piano (2001) • Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in C Major Op. 76, tr. for wind quartet (2003) • Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major Op. 18, tr. for wind quartet (2003) • Theodor Hoch, Phantasia Concertante, tr. for trumpet and symphonic orchestra (2003) • Ludwig van Beethoven, Rondino Op. post., tr. for string quintet and 2 horns (2003) • Johannes Brahms, Horn Trio in E Flat Major Op. 40, tr. for horn (or viola, or cello), violin and symphonic orchestra (2004) • Anton Bruckner, Motets, tr. for brass ensemble and organ (2007) • Anton Bruckner, Andante from the 7th Symphony, tr. for horn and organ (2008) • Toots Thielemans, Bedarande Sommarvals, tr. for mixed choir and orchestra (2008) • Carl Nielsen, Canto Serioso, tr. for instrumental ensemble (2008) • Jakub Jan Ryba, Czech Christmas Mass, rev. (2008) • Edmund Pascha, Kyrie, rev. (2008) • Jean-Gaspard Páleníček, Piano sonata, tr. for symphonic orchestra (2010) • Salem al Fakir, Good Song, tr. for mixed choir and symphonic orchestra (2010) • Adeste Fideles, tr. for mixed choir and symphonic orchestra (2010) • Anton Bruckner, 1st movement of the 9th Symphony, tr. for brass ensemble and organ (2011) • Anton Bruckner, Adagio of the 8th Symphony, tr. for brass ensemble and organ (2011) • L. van Beethoven, Scherzo of the 3rd Symphony, tr. for instrumental ensemble (2014) • I. Stravinsky: Infernal Dance from the Firebird, tr. for instrumental ensemble (2015) • Václav Krahulík, Etude – Toccata, tr. for instrumental ensemble (2016) • František Škroup: Kde domov můj?, tr. for soli, mixed choir and symphonic orchestra (2017) • Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne BWV 1004, tr. for brass ensemble (2018) • Johann Sebastian Bach, Pièce d'Orgue in G Major BWV 572, tr. for piano (2019) • Hymn to Blessed Hroznata, arr. for voice and organ (2019) • Josef Leopold Zvonař, On our Foreheads We Fall, tr. for brass ensemble and organ (2019)