Milan Kymlička

* 15. 5. 1936, Louny (Louny), Česká republika (Czech Republic)
† 10. 10. 2008, Toronto, Kanada (Canada)
Musician, Composer

 

sex: male

NK AUT: xx0017095

notes:
Kymlicka, Milan. Arranger, composer, conductor, b Louny, Czechoslovakia, 15 May 1936, naturalized Canadian 1974. Prior to his arrival in Toronto in 1968, Kymlicka had studied with Emil Hlobil at the Prague Cons and the Academy of Musical Arts and completed a ballet, piano and string quartets, a cello concerto, and some 20 film scores. By the early 1970s he was established as one of Canada's leading studio arranger-conductors, handling music for the CBC radio shows of Ivan Romanoff and others and for recordings during the decade by such popular artists as Bill Amesbury, Peter Appleyard, Peter Foldy, the Good Brothers, Ray Materick, Anne Murray, Suzanne Stevens, Sweet Blindness, and Ian Thomas.
Kymlicka conducted his own compositions and arrangements on the LPs In the Evening (1971, CBC LM-115/Kanata KAN-6/CTL CTLS-6001), Clockwork Orange... Music by Milan (1972, CTL 477-5158), Collage (1974, GRT 9230-1047), and Milan Kymlicka Orchestra (1975, CBC LM-415). His Scheherazade - A Journey, performed under his direction, was telecast 12 Dec 1976 on the CBC's 'Music to See'. He also has contributed arrangements to the McPeek Pops Library (eg, of 'Snowbird') and in 1987 wrote the arrangements and orchestrations for The Orchestra (MRP-107), recorded with the Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra with Peter Ustinov as narrator.
Kymlicka has completed scores for features films (eg, The Reincarnate 1971; Wedding in White, 1972; Babar: the Movie, 1989), TV series ('Alfred Hithcock Presents,' 'Babar,' etc), the CBC/NFB co-production 'The King Chronicle' (1987), and some 40 CBC radio dramas (including productions heard on 'Playing for Keeps' and 'Canadian Free Theatre'). Among his other solo and chamber compositions are a Sonatina (1957, Leeds 1975), Four Pieces (1961, Leeds 1974), Four Valses (1984), and Five Preludes (1986) for piano (the last three recorded by Antonín Kubálek); Two Dances for clarinet and piano (Leeds 1970, recorded by Avrahm Galper); and Partissima for solo violin (1985) and Cassation for two violins, viola, clarinet and bassoon (1986), both commissioned by Les Amis Concerts of Toronto.

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