PARMA Recordings ::: Fine Audio

PARMA works with the finest musicians, conductors, and facilities to create the highest quality music. Here is a sampling of the conductors for our sessions:

VIT MICKA. Conductor Vit Micka is a graduate of the Prague Academy of Music where he studied both composition and conducting, with later instruction in conducting master-classes with the great Russian conductor, Arvid Jensons. Mr. Micka was the music director of the Moravian Philharmonic for many years and, for the past ten years, has been working with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted in venues all over the world including Canada, Cuba, the United States, Turkey, Spain, and Italy. Over the last decade, he has conducted thousands of sessions and is one of PARMA’s most trusted musical resources. Currently he is a professor of conducting and piano at the Prague Academy of Music.

JI-HOON AHN. The conductor and composer was born 1970 in Korea, studied both conducting and composition in Seoul-Korea, Boston-U.S.A, and Prague-Czech Republic. In 2001-2003 he was appointed assistant of Vladimir Ashkenazy, the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. In 2006 he was the professor and conductor of the Yonsei University Symphony Orchestra in Seoul- Korea. From 2008 to present he
has been the chief guest conductor of the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra in Czech Republic. In 2007, Mr. Ahn’s CD with the Warsaw National Philharmonic was released in Europe. In 2005, his first CD( Beethoven Sym. No.7 and Mozart Sym. No 38 with the Prague Chamber Orchestra was released in Prague. He conducted Orchestras in Poland the Warsaw National Philharmonic and the Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra, in Japan the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, in Ukraine the Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra, in China the Gil-Rim State and Yang-bian Philharmonic Orchestra, in Czech Republic the Moravian Philharmonic, the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, the Czech Chamber Orchestra, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra.

KIRK TREVOR. An internationally renowned conductor and teacher, is a regular guest conductor in the world’s concert halls. Born and educated in England, he trained at London’s Guildhall School of Music where he graduated cum laude in cello performance and conducting. He was a conducting student of the late Sir Adrian Boult and Vilém Tausky. He went on to pursue cello studies in France with Paul Tortelier under a British Council Scholarship and moved to the United States on a Fulbright Exchange Grant. It was there that his conducting skills led him in 1982 to the Exxon Arts Endowment Conductor position with the Dallas Symphony. In 1990 he was recognized as one of America’s outstanding young conductors, winning the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Leonard Bernstein Conducting Competition that led to performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. From 1995 to 1999 he was Chief Conductor of the Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic, and in 2000 forged a new relationship with the famed Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (SRSO) in Bratislava. He has recently recorded symphonies by Dvorák and Mahler with the SRSO, as well as recording movie scores for Hollywood and music for major computer games. As a guest conductor, he has appeared
on the podiums of more than forty orchestras worldwide including the London Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras in Hong Kong, Canada, Israel, Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and throughout the United States.