Matěj Kroupa

Biography

He graduated from the Prague Conservatory (violin) and continued his studies at HAMU (viola). He co-founded the Lamborghini Quartet and Pavel Bořkovec's String Quartet, played in a band at the Minor Theatre and in the orchestra of the Karlín Music Theatre. He has collaborated with several ensembles (the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vertigo, and the National Theatre Opera Orchestra).

Since the 1990s, he has been composing stage music for the theatre (he began collaborating with Miroslav Krobot, then worked with Jan Jirků, Zdeněk Bartoš, Jaroslava Šiktancová, Šimon Dominik, J. A. Pitínský, and others; he has repeatedly composed for the Dejvice Theatre, the National Theatre in Brno, the Archa Theatre, and the F. X. Šalda Theatre, for example).

He is the author of the music for the documentary series Stories of the 20th Century, the documentary film Scouts Without Lilies, and the film The Painted Bird. At the National Theatre Drama, he has contributed to the productions The Bagpiper of Strakonice, or The Feast of Wild Women and Perfect Happiness, or 1789 (both 2014), Frailty, Your Name is Woman (2017), For Beauty and Lunch at Wittgenstein (both 2019), Beauty and the Beast and Much Ado About Nothing (both 2022), and Our Defiant Fellows (2023).