Radek Němejc (born 1971 in Plzeň) is a jazz drummer. He received his musical grounding from the trumpeter František Kučera, graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Vladimír Žižka’s class and completed a study stay at the Copenhagen conservatory led by Ed Thigpen, Barry Harris and Django Bates. He has played with Karel Růžička Sr. and Jr., Jaromír Honzák, Antonín Gondolán and Robert Balzar, has appeared as a guest with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and records theatre and film music. He has performed at the festivals Umbria Jazz, Montreal Jazz Festival and JazzFest Berlin. He has taught since 2001, from 2008 to 2017 at the International Conservatory Prague. On Amplión Records he played on Olga Škrancová’s album When I Fall in Love (2003) and the Zuzana Dumková Band’s Balance (2007). More at radeknemejc.com.
