Štěpán Pokorný (born 1989 in Liberec, Czech Republic) is a music composer, conductor,
singer and instrumentalist. He studied conducting and music at the Charles University in Prague under the leadership of MgA. Marek Štryncl.
As a pianist, he spent his early high school years attending Karel Velebný Summer Jazz
Workshop in Frýdlant v Čechách and performing weekly as a cocktail pianist. He also started
ensemble singing in a youth vocal group Regnis. Jazz, improvisation, singing and his teacher brought him into a world of educated performance of early music.
He participates every year in the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice as a harpsichordist, organist and singer. He acts as a professional solo and ensemble singer and an occasional player in renowned music groups such as: Musica Florea, Victoria Ensemble, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Czech Philharmonic Choir, etc...
In 2016 he founded his own musical group - “Humble Ensemble” - with which he occasionally
works on project crossovers of early music, his own contemporary music and various other arts – in 2017, the group performed a musical-literary project: “Music of Pride and Prejudice” in honor of Jane Austen’s 200th death anniversary.
He leads a children's choir "Sluníčko" by a Primary school in Kladno, where he teaches and Dvořák Chamber Choir in Kralupy nad Vltavou. He also teches at ACGA - Anglicko-české gymnázium Amazon. Privately - he teaches piano and impovisation.
His greatest music passion is composition. He is an author of numerous compositions that
span through various genres of classical and pop culture. In 2019 he won a second awarded place in the J.J. Ryba Festival composition contest. In 2020 he wrote a premiere composition for
“Podkrkonošské hudební léto” festival.
Besides his professional music performance and composition, he likes to dive into other
aspects of artistic life. As a self-taught non-professional he plays harp, contrabass, viola da gamba. He tunes and repairs pianos, he has practical interest in fine arts and he writes and translates poetry.