Biography

Matěj Josef Václav Bartoň was born in 1999. He studied composition with Pavel Trojan at the Prague Conservatory. He started to take piano lessons at the age of six in the monastery in Slaný. He became organist and music director in the same church at the age of ten. During his studies at the grammar school in Slaný he founded and leaded school choir. He took organ lessons from Lukáš Vendl at the Music Elementary School Of Charlotte Masaryk in Prague. He participated in various music courses (ISSEM Valtice, LŠBH Holešov, MVK Úterý – prof. Wolfgang Zerer, Composers Summit – Harry Gregson-Williams).

Nowadays he is an organist in the church of St. Benedict in Prague – Hradčany (Fortna) and he is also a music director in St. Lawrence Cathedral at the Petřín Hill. He also composes contemporary church music and gives private lessons of piano and music theory. His hobbies includes web development, cycling and long-distance walking.

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Education

Prague Conservatory (2018 – 2024)

Grammar School Of Václav Beneš Třebízský in Slaný (2010 – 2018)

Artistic practice

Old-Catholic Cathedral Of St. Lawrence, Prague (2023 – now)

Monastery Hradčany of the Discaled Carmelites Order Fortna, Prague (2020 – now)

Grammar School Of Václav Beneš Třebízský in Slaný (2010 – 2018)

Monastery Of The Divine Trinity of the Discaled Carmelites Order, Slaný (2009 – 2020)

Awards and funds

Fund from Český hudební fond (2023/2024)

International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition (2023)

Courses

Composers Summit 2023

Organ Masterclass in Úterý

Summer School Of Baroque Music

International Summer School Of Early Music Valtice

Notable composition projects

Missa brevis (orchestral arrangement)

Film music for student film ‘Spark’

Missa pro defunctis – small requiem for soprano and organ

De Profundis

Suite for cello and piano

Missa brevis

Cantata “Vodník”

List of compositions
Press kit