Švajdová, Hana

Hana Švajdová (*1972) is a Czech pianist, piano teacher and composer. She comes from Olomouc, studied piano at the conservatory in Kroměříž and then continued her studies at the Faculty of Education of the University of Ostrava (M.A. degree) and the Faculty of Education of Palacký University Olomouc (PhD degree). Since 1999 she has been working at the music school "Žerotín" in Olomouc, in 2017 she became a member of the Moravian Composers Club Brno. She is intensively involved in the promotion of Czech contemporary music, improvisation and original composition of pupils in the teaching of the ZUŠ, especially through the projects "Improvisation for Everyone" and "Music without Borders". In her free time she writes compositions for herself and her pupils not only for solo piano, but also for chamber music and organ, which are her hobbies. In her compositions she usually captures important and joyful moments of her life.