{"id":3953,"date":"2026-10-22T16:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.krivkastudio.cz\/artist\/benko\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:37:14","slug":"benko","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/artist\/benko\/","title":{"rendered":"Benko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"product\"><div class=\"product\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slovak pianist and composer based in Prague, who grew up in a&nbsp;family of musicians and discovered jazz at seventeen. He debuted with the album Universality (Arta, 2006), followed by Time Against Us and Live at the Prague Castle. He leads his own trio and quintet, whose members have included Miroslav Hloucal, Radek Zapadlo, Rastislav Uhr\u00edk and Pavel Zbo\u0159il, accompanies the singers Yvonne Sanchez and Miriam Bayle, and works with Michal Hor\u00e1\u010dek on theatre projects. His compositions combine the jazz tradition with Latin rhythms and European melodic writing, and he teaches at the Jaroslav Je\u017eek Conservatory. In January 2026 the Jazz Dock Orchestra devoted a&nbsp;whole programme to his music. On the album Za obzorem ticha he plays on two tracks and arranged the song Zale\u0165 sokol.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":2825,"template":"","artist-taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-3953","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3953","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\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist-taxonomy?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}