Zdenek Kosler
Zdeněk Košler was a Czech conductor born on March 25, 1928, in Prague. He sang
in the Kühn Children's Choir and studied under Otakar Jeremias before attending
the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague from 1947 to 1952. During World War II,
he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. His career
accelerated after winning the Besançon competition in 1959 and the Mitropoulos
Competition in 1963, which led him to assist Leonard Bernstein at the New York
Philharmonic. Košler held significant posts at the Komische Oper Berlin and
served as principal conductor of the Brat...
