Marek Stilec

A protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas, Marek Štilec is a stalwart figure among the younger generation of Czech conductors. He has a large catalog of recordings on the Naxos label. Štilec was born in Prague, then in Czechoslovakia, on July 18, 1985. His family was musical, and he enrolled at the Prague Conservatory as a violin student. Switching to conducting, he studied with Oliver von Dohnányi and Leos Svárovský at the Prague Academy of the Performing Arts. At 17, he founded his own ensemble, the Quattro Chamber Orchestra. A breakthrough came in 2010 in the form of an invitatio...