Petr Kotik

Petr Kotik is a Czech-born composer, conductor and flutist, born in Prague in 1942 and based in the United States since 1969. He studied in Prague with Jan Rychlík and in Vienna with Karl Schiske, Hanns Jelinek and Friedrich Cerha. He founded and directs the S.E.M. Ensemble, active in New York since 1970, and started the Ostrava Days festival in the Czech Republic. In Prague Kotik directed the QUAX Ensemble from 1966 to 1969, before moving to Buffalo at the invitation of Lejaren Hiller and Lukas Foss to join the Center of Creative and Performing Arts at the university.