Ondřej Kyas

Ondřej Kyas (* 14 April 1979 Boskovice) is a Czech composer and musician.

[1][2] Ondřej Kyas graduated in Czech and Musicology from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

He is a co-founder and composer of the Ensemble Opera Diversa.

He has written five full-length operas in Czech, Pickelhering 1607 aneb Nový Orfeus z Bohemie (Pickelhering 1607 or The New Orpheus of Bohemia, 2007), Společná smrt milenců v Šinagawě (The Strange Suicide of Two Lovers in Shinagawa, 2009), Dýňový démon ve vegetariánské restauraci (The Pumpkin Demon in a Vegetarian Restaurant, 2010), Ponava (Zmizelé řeky) (Ponava: The Lost Rivers, 2013) and Čaroděj a jeho sluha (The Conjuror and his Slave, 2016), as well as numerous shorter pieces.

[3] He has also performed as a member of the following alternative and rock bands: He is also active as a solo performer, an "electrified songwriter" Kygiss.