Václav Kalivoda

Trombonist, musical improviser and idea maker. He studied at the Jan Neruda Grammar School in a program with a musical focus and at the Prague Conservatory. In 2015, he graduated from the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the USA and then spent a year on a Darmasiswa internship in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where he studied gamelan, traditional Indonesian music. In addition to playing classical music on trombone, both solo, chamber and orchestral, he also devotes himself to other genres (jazz, swing, klezmer, samba, etc.) and music for theatre and dance performances. He improvises with various dancers and musical groups (Voříšci, Moving Orchestra, Pražský improvizační orchestr, B4, etc.). He also focuses on improvisation for children with the aim of developing natural musical perception. Not just a passive musician, he also participates in the preparation and creation of both theatre performances and children's movement lessons. He is the musician of the PONEC Theatre Children's Studio and the Dance for Schools project.