Miloslav Gajdoš

Miloslav Gajdoš (born 13 April 1948, in Město Albrechtice) is a Czech double bass player, music teacher, and composer.

Having begun by the violin, Gajdoš took bass lessons in Kroměříž with Alois Kříž, with Jiří Bortlíček in Brno, and with Ludwig Streicher.

During his studies, Gajdoš played bass in the theater orchestra of Brno, where later he performed as a soloist.

He played with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the Czech premiere of Giovanni Bottesini's First Double Bass Concerto, from which Gajdoš undertook, from the 1990s, several concert tours in the US and made his mark as one of the greatest bass virtuosos of the 20th century.

He later taught, among others, in Moscow, Debrecen, Miskolc, Munich, Dresden, and Berlin and gave master classes in 1997 at New York's Juilliard School.