Ondřej Šindelář

The bassoonist Ondřej Šindelář began his musical studies under Pavel Brůža in Poděbrady and Kolín, then from 2003 he continued his studies at the Prague Conservatoire. Afterwards, he studied briefly at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at the University of Ostrava, then he completed his studies in Basel. After graduating from that city’s Hochschule für Musik in the studio of Sergio Azzolini, he focused his attention on early music and enrolled for study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, graduating in 2017. He has been a member of the Czech Philharmonic since 2018, and he also devotes himself to music of the Baroque and Classical eras and to the bassoons of that period and their repertoire. From 2020 to 2023 he taught the historical bassoon and chamber music at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, and he also teaches regularly at the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice. Ondřej Šindelář has played in Czech and foreign early music ensembles (Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum, Czech Ensemble Baroque, oh! Orkiestra, Weimar Baroque) as well as in modern orchestras (Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra in London, and the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland). He worked with the publisher Bärenreiter Praha on editions of bassoon concertos by Carl Stamitz and Jiří Pauer.