Ivan Acher (born 1973 in Liberec) is a composer, musician and poet. He studied textile design at the Technical University of Liberec and is a self-taught musician. He has long performed with the jazz mini big band NUO, where he plays alongside Jiří Šimek, Jan Jirucha, Pavel Hrubý, Jakub Zitko, Oskar Török and Marcel Bárta. Since 2002 he has worked with the contemporary music ensemble Agon Orchestra, for which he has written almost twenty orchestral pieces. The core of his work is music for theatre and dance productions (over 150 titles). His opera Sternenhoch, based on Ladislav Klíma with a libretto in Esperanto, premiered at the National Theatre in 2018 and won the Theatre Critics’ Award. In 2019 he received the Czech Lion for best music. Amplión Records released the NUO album Dixie and The Gang (2007).
