Radek Baborák

Radek Baborák (born 11 March 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech conductor[1] and French horn player.

[1] He commenced his horn studies at the age of eight under the tutelage of Karel Krenek.

At the age of twelve he was a winner of the Radio Competition Concertino Prague.

From 1996 to 2000 he was principal horn player of the Munich Philharmonic, from 2000 to 2002 he was principal horn of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and from 1998 to 2000 guest professor of the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in succession to Hermann Baumann.

[3] He has arranged Bach’s solo cello suites for Horn, and on one memorable occasion at a concert in Teplice in 1998, entertained an audience with one of his Bach arrangements when the concert was delayed because the lights went out, due to testing the power supply in preparation for the Teplice-Sparta football match the following day.