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DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Composers, individuals or collective?, including contributions from David Arditti, Halida Dinova, Robert McCarney and Jane Stanley.
DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Improvisation in the classical world and beyond, including contributions from David Arditti, James Lewitzke, James Ross and Steve Vasta.
Czech composer and essayist Ilja Hurník was born in Poruba on 25 November 1922 and studied at the Prague Conservatory and with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová at the Prague Academy of Arts.
Three of his works from the 1950s have been recorded, on the Supraphon and Cedille Records labels.
He died on 7 September 2013, aged ninety.