One of the foremost cellists of his generation,  Jirí Bárta studied with Josef Chuchro, Boris Pergamenschikow and Eleonore Schoenfeld. He then gained additional experience at the Piatigorsky seminar in Los Angeles and attended master classes with Heinrich Schiff and Andre Navarra. In 1991 he received the Europäische Förderpreis für Musik, followed in that same year by the Rostropovich-Hammer Award in Los Angeles. He works with leading Czech and international orchestras and conductors. Jirí Barta has performed as both chamber musician and concerto soloist with leading artists at major halls and festivals throughout Europe, the Americas, Japan and Australia. He has been featured on national television in most European countries as well as broadcast on many radio stations.

Although he performs on a modern cello Jirí Bárta has always been interested in period instruments and interpretation. He also has a long history of advocating new music, and has premiered works written for him by leading Czech composers such as Petr Eben, Marek Kopelent, Petr Pokorný, Peter Graham and Pavel Zemek.  

His CD project "Reflections" was voted for the best Czech CD recording of 1999 and won "Harmony Award" of 2000 as well as highest rating and "Klassik Heute Empfehlung" (recommandation of the month) by German magazine "Klassik Heute". His Supraphon title with Sonatas by Rachmaninov, Schnittke and Pärt recorded with pianist Marian Lapsansky was Golden Harmony winning album of 1995. Jirí Bárta’s recordings include Dvorák’s two cello concertos (both the famous B minor and the first recording, in its original version for cello and piano, with Jan Cech, of the earlier A major); Bach’s Cello Suites; and a live recording of the cello concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich, conducted by Maxim Shostakovich. He also appears on a song-recital disc by Magdalena Kozená on DG, which won a Gramophone Award in 2004, and has made several discs with the Czech violinist Josef Suk.

Jirí Barta comes from an artistic background and he plays a Gagliano cello of 1785.

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