Miroslav Kejmar

At the tender age of 10 Miroslav Kejmar took the most important decision of his life: he swapped his fiddle for a trumpet. The man “whose lip is a gift from God” (according to one of his teachers) can scarcely have any cause to regret it now.

Not yet 40, citing Adolf Scherbaum and Maurice André as his models, Kejmar's list of recordings does him proud, including as it does such feats as Bach's 2nd Brandenburg Concerto, one of the concertos of J.M. Molter and the first recording of the incredibly difficult concerto by Franziskus Querfort (all on the Panton label). He can be heard in Supraphon recordings of Bach's Suite in D and Handel's Fireworks Music. Apart from the Baroque his other preference is for contemporary works (he quotes Jolivet, Bozza, Arutiunian, Goedicke and Peskin).

He has recorded Joéka Matěj's trumpet concerto (Supraphon) and concerto for trumpet, horn and trombone (Panton), and Petr Eben's Vox clamantis (Panton).