Smetáček, Petr

Petr Smetáček (*1984) is a Czech musician, composer and piano teacher. From an early age he was fond of the piano and music in general, especially classical and jazz, but also folk music and later even Latin-American salsa. Over the years he started playing other instruments as well, such as Czech bagpipes and Afro-Cuban percussion, while he also started composing and leading bands, but the piano was still his main point of interest. During his school years at Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague he had already been playing with various ensembles in the Czech Republic and often even abroad. For many of them he composed music, too. Currently he performs mainly with his own ensemble Los Rumberos and also with his wife, Japanese soprano Yukiko Kinjo Smetacek. Since he enjoys teaching himself, but also teaching others, he has started to work as a piano teacher and accompanist in ZUŠ Slaný (since 2017).