Bassoonist Ondřej Šindelář began his musical studies at the Prague Conservatory in 2003. He then continued at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and Ostrava University, completing his studies in Switzerland, in Basel. There, after his first graduation at the Hochschule, he focused his attention on “early music” and enrolled at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, from where he graduated in 2017. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Czech Philharmonic, alongside which he dedicates himself to baroque and classical music, bassoons, and their repertoire.
Ondřej Šindelář is teacher at JAMU in Brno, where he has taught a historical bassoon and chamber music course since 2020. He also taught at the Summer Bassoon and Oboe Academy in Rataje nad Sázavou and he regularly teaches historical bassoon playing at the Summer School of Baroque Music in Holešov and the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice. Ondřej performs solo, in chamber ensembles, and orchestras, such as Czech and foreign “historical” ensembles: Collegium 1704, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Collegium Marianum, Weimar Baroque, L’Arpa Festante, La Cetra Basel, as well as symphonic orchestras: the Symphony Orchestra of the Capital City of Prague FOK, Prague Philharmonia, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Kremerata Baltica in Estonia and Lithuania, Camerata Zurich, and the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. He collaborated with Bärenreiter Praha on the publication of concertos for bassoon and orchestra by Carl Stamitz and Jiří Pauer. His current portfolio includes the ensemble Opus Elocutio, with which he focuses on the combination of string and wind instruments in chamber music, and the wind ensemble Harmoniemusik Sesto.
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