Vojtěch Stejskal

Vojtěch Stejskal was born into an artistic family in Prague in 2009. He has been involved with music from the age of five, when he began playing the violin and piano and has dedicated himself to the trumpet since the age of eight. In 2024, he graduated from Tomáš Hrbáček’s class at Music Art Barrandov. In 2023, he received the 1^st prize in both the regional and national rounds of the Arts Primary School competition. Thanks to the erstwhile school principal, Josef Vondráček, he was twice able to perform with the Smíchov Chamber Philharmonic as a soloist. He is now in his second year of studies at the Prague Conservatory in MgA. Walter Hofbauer’s class. He regularly participates at Czech Brass Academy masterclasses held by Marek Zvolánek. In 2023 and 2025, he studied in the class of Professor Eric Aubier and in 2024 he worked under the tutelage of Marc Geujon. He has chosen the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1950) by the Armenian composer Alexander Artjunjan for the Concertino Praga 2026 competition. He enjoys playing 20^th-centiry music and hopes to one day perform this concerto accompanied by an orchestra.