Michael Verner

Bassoonist Michael Verner studied at the Prague Conservatory and then at the same city's Academy of Music with František Herman. In 1983 he became a member of what is now the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 1993 he has taught at the Prague Conservatory. For more than ten years he appeared with the ensemble Symposium Musicum, directed by Miloslav Klement, as a player of historic wind instruments, in which area of music he continues to work today with the ensemble Rožmberská kapela. Michael Verner has recorded several dozen solo and chamber works for Czech radio and appears on CD recordings for a number of labels including Supraphon, Panton, Arta Records, Bohemia Music and Studio Matouš.