Dvořáková, Markéta

Markéta Dvořáková (*1977) is a Czech composer and piano teacher from Opava. She studied composition and piano playing at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava and continued her studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, where she studied composition. She currently teaches piano at the Primary Music School in Polanka, but she also teaches intonation, rhythm and auditory analysis at the Ostrava Conservatory and music theory and composition, instrumentation and arrangement of compositions and harmony at JAMU at Brno. Dvořáková composes songs mainly for her daughters and pupils at the Primary Music School, but also enjoys writing operas. She wrote "The Giraffe Opera" herself and three other operas in collaboration with composer Ivo Medek. She composes for vocal ensembles of children and adults as well, most often for the female vocal ensemble Notabene, in which she also sings. Her compositional achievements are being highly valued, which substantiates nomination for the Alfred Radok Award in the category Talent of the Year in 2002, or the winning place in OSA Annual Prize in the category the “Most Successful Young Classical Music Author" in 2006. In 2018 she won the international competition Opus ignotum with the adaptation of the folk song Prší, prší for women's choir and in 2021 she won 2nd prize in the Stonavská Barborka composition competition for her cycle "Živůtky" for two female voices.