Libor Pešek was a Czech conductor born June 22, 1933, in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He studied conducting, piano, cello, and trombone at the Academy of Musical Arts
in Prague under Václav Smetáček, Karel Ančerl, and Václav Neumann. After working
at opera houses in Pilsen and Prague from 1958 to 1964, Pešek founded a chamber
orchestra in Prague and directed orchestras in Pardubice, Leeuwarden, and
Enschede during the 1970s. He served as chief conductor of the Slovak
Philharmonic from 1981 to 1982 and conductor-in-residence of the Czech
Philharmonic from 1982 to 1990. Pešek led the Ro...