Pavel Horák

After receiving a master’s in music education, Pavel Horák earned a PhD in Choir Conducting from Charles University in Prague. He taught at the Faculty of Education at Hradec Králové University for ten years, and afterwards taught choirmastering to international students at the Charles University’s Faculty of Education. In 2009 he received a Silver Medal from the Ministry of Education in recognition of his many years of teaching and cultural activities and his important contribution to musical education. In 2017 he was awarded the prestigious Ferdinand Vach Prize by the Czech Music Fund, the Czech Choirs Association and the Union of Choir Conductors in the Association of Music Artists and Musicologists. That same year he was also recognised by the President of the Hradec Králové Region as