Jan Ryant Dřízal
composer (born 1986)
Jan Ryant Dřízal is one of the most prominent personalities of the emerging composer generation. In 2014, he became the absolute winner of the Czech Philharmonic Composition Competition for the composition Kuře melancholik (The Melancholic Chicken). The composition was then performed in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s 120th season and directed by Jiří Bělohlávek.
He was also awarded the award of the Czech copyright association for the most successful young classical music composer of 2016. He is the holder of several other awards from international composition competitions and parades (Soozvuk 2010, Generace 2013, 2014 etc.). Dřízal collaborates with some of the most significant musicians of his generation, such as Marek Šedivý, Tomáš Jamník, Jakub Fišer, Milan Al-Ashhab, Jan Mikušek and Adam Plachetka.
His scores have been performed by the foremost Czech orchestras, such as the Czech Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, BERG Orchestra or Kühn’s Mixed Choir. The scores have also been performed at numerous festivals, such as the Prague Spring, Smetana’s Litomyšl, Contempuls, New Music Olomouc, or Moscow’s Your Chance. Marginally, he also focuses on film scores and single-purpose music (film score to Šmejdi, directed by Sylvia Dymáková, BERG Orchestra Project Cinegoga, Zóna – multimedia project by Eliška Cílková working with authentic recordings of abandoned pianos in Chernobyl).
His compositions are regularly recorded and published by the Czech Radio. He is represented by OSA (Czech copyright protection association for author rights), the Dilia agency, and is a member of the Czech artist society, Umělecká beseda.
Titles for sale:
The Melancholic Chicken
Titles for hire:
The Melancholic Chicken
Narcissus for Cello and Orchestra