The Czech conductor and composer Jaroslav Krček was born in Bohemia in 1939 and studied composition and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. In 1962 he moved to Pilsen as a conductor and radio producer and in 1967 returned to Prague to work as a recording supervisor for Supraphon. In the capital he funded the Chorea Bohemica ensemble and in 1975 the chamber orchestra Musica Bohemica. In the Czech Republic he is well-known for his arrangements of Bohemian folk music, while his electro-acoustic opera Raab was awarded first prize at the International Composers’ Competition in Geneva.