He prepared for three years for his entry exam to the Prague Conservatory, and graduated after studying composition with Jan Zdeněk Bartoš and organ with Joseph Kuban.
[1] In 1976, he returned from a yearlong national service in the Army Art Ensemble, and took a job as music director in Czechoslovak Radio.
[2] In 1990, political and social changes in his country forced Kvěch to return to a job at Czechoslovak Radio as programme manager and music editor.
In 2000, Kvěch's wife died, and three years later he married Jana Smékalová, long-time programme manager of Supraphon.
[2] As a composer, Kvěch adopted a number of technical elements (concepts of "colour") from "Musica Nova," and transplanted these into the "Classical" approach.