Štěpán Rak

Štěpán Rak is a world-class guitar virtuoso, composer, professor at the Academy of Music in Prague. In 2000, Štěpán Rak was appointed the first-ever university professor of guitar in the Czech Republic.

In 2001, Štěpán Rak was the first guitarist in the world to be invited to a solo performance at the famous P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In the same year, together with Alfred Strejček, he performed in Mexico with a concert project in honor of J. A. Comenius Vivat Comenius. It was already the fourth joint tour of these artists on the American continent. In February 2004, Štěpán Rak was invited to a concert performance as the first Czech guitarist in China. He presented his concert Praise of Tea in a theater in Beijing. In March 2004, he is a guest at the international guitar festival World Masters of Guitar, which took place in California, USA, where Rakov's full-length suite for solo guitar Twenty thousand miles under the sea met with great acclaim. >.

At the end of November 2007, together with his graduates, he celebrated the quarter century of the guitar with a concert at HAMU, which in He founded 1982 at HAMU. A significant moment was the performance on November 4, 2007 in Florence at the Uffizi Gallery, where together with Alfredo Strejček, they performed Comenius' General Consultation in front of the painting of Comenius by Rembrandt himself. In December, a selection from Comenius' work General advice on the correction of human affairs was published, which both artists christened.