Vojtěch Procházka

pianist and composer

Vojtěch Procházka (* 1981) is a prominent Czech pianist and composer who works at the intersection of jazz and free improvisation. He studied piano, composition, and North Indian classical music in Oslo, Paris, and Prague. With the band Vertigo, which he co-founded in 2002, he has won three Anděl awards for best jazz/blues album of the year (2005, 2011, and 2019). He regularly collaborates with prominent musicians such as Harpreet Bansal, Sisa Feher (KHI), Michaela Antalová (Mikoo), Luboš Soukup (Freetown Quartet), Monika Načeva, and Lucie Páchová (Talaqpo). He composes music for theatre and has worked with Handa Gote, Josef Tuka, Naive Theatre Liberec, and the ALFA Theatre in Plzeň, among others. He has also been creating scores for silent films for over twenty years. He is active in the field of improvised music (with projects such as Krekso, PIO, and ex-Bergljot), and he plays the harmonium in the brass band FSKC Drancy. He teaches in the Jazz Department at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts and at New York University in Prague.