Petr Dvorský is a double bassist. He graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and studied classical double bass privately with Jan Kment, Václav Fuka and Jiří Valenta. He entered the scene as a member of the quartet The Four (with Karel Růžička Jr.), which won the competition of the Karlovy Vary jazz festival in 1990; in 1992 he took second place at Jazz Juniors in Kraków with the Pavel Wlosok Trio. From 2004 to 2013 he played in the Czech Radio Big Band. He has played with Emil Viklický, Karel Růžička and Steve Lacy, and today works in the Emil Viklický Trio, the Adam Tvrdý Trio and Concept Art Orchestra. He was an editor of the magazine JAM (1999 to 2003) and director of the Summer Jazz Workshop (2004 to 2005), and teaches privately. On Amplión Records he plays on the Petr Kalfus Sextet album Night Talks (2016). More at petrdvorsky.cz.
