{"id":3674,"date":"2026-09-19T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.krivkastudio.cz\/artist\/stepanek\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:13:55","slug":"stepanek","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/artist\/stepanek\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"product\"><div class=\"product\"><p>Josef \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nek is a&nbsp;guitarist, composer, arranger and producer. He was born in 1973 in Beroun, where he still lives and runs a&nbsp;private music school. He began playing the guitar at thirteen; after grammar school he studied mathematics and philosophy at Charles University and was then admitted to the conservatory. He commands a&nbsp;wide range of stringed instruments: electric, acoustic and resonator guitars, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo and ukulele. He is a&nbsp;sought-after session player and has taken part in more than three hundred albums across folk, country, jazz and pop. He has worked with Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek, Lucie B\u00edl\u00e1, Rad\u016fza, Vladim\u00edr Mi\u0161\u00edk (the album Jednou t\u011b potk\u00e1m, which won six And\u011bl awards), Xindl X, V\u011bra Martinov\u00e1 and Petr Linhart. For Ampli\u00f3n Records he recorded the album Balance (2007) with the Zuzana Dumkov\u00e1 Band.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3675,"template":"","artist-taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-3674","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist-taxonomy?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}