Kristina Barta (real name Kristýna Urbánková Bárta) is a pianist and composer. She started out as an oboist at the Jan Neruda Grammar School, studied classical and jazz piano at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and jazz piano at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU). She won first prize at Jazz Prix (2015), the award for best jazz composition of the year (2016) and the piano skills award at the Polish festival Powiew Młodego Jazzu (2017), and was a finalist of the Euroradio Jazz Competition. She has released the albums EMA29 (2017), Love and Passion (2020) and Endless Questions and Answers (2023) with Jure Pukl. She plays with David Dorůžka and Peter Korman, and in 2024 she founded Prague Impro Room. Amplión Records releases her album Red Landscape (2026). More at kristinabarta.com.
