Milan Svoboda (born 1951 in Prague) is a composer, conductor, jazz pianist and teacher. He studied organ at the Prague Conservatory, musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and composition at HAMU, and spent time as a scholarship student at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1974 he founded the Prague Big Band, which he still leads, and from 2006 to 2010 he was artistic director of the Rudolfinum Jazz Orchestra. He has worked with James Moody, Bob Mintzer and Jiří Stivín, and has written musicals, the ballet Mauglí and music for dozens of stage productions and films. He leads the Milan Svoboda Quartet (Milan Krajíc, Filip Spálený, Ivan Audes), with which he released the album Pozdní sběr / Late Harvest (2016) on Amplión Records. Since 2006 he has taught composition and jazz harmony at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. More at milansvoboda.com.
