Ondřej Štochl (born 12.6.1975 in Prague). He mainly composes chamber and orchestral works, sometimes with vocal or electronic components. The author's musical language is based mainly on subtle shades of harmony and timbre and their mutual interactions. The semantic level of the musical material is essential. The aim is a sensitive balancing of musical and semantic opposites, which is the main aesthetic principle of Štochl's music.
The author's work is profiled in several directions related to extra-musical meaning. There are large-scale spatial compositions with spiritual content inspired by philosophical Taoism, especially "In the Day Shadows, at Night Light" or the concertante pieces "Yin - Nostalgia and Hope" and "Three Sentences on Acceptance". Another of his frequently- used themes is his personal experience with disabled people - besides the blind (from his teaching practice), especially people with PAS (Autism Spectrum Disorder). This includes, for example, "Spring from the Cave of Powerlessness" for a string quartet or "The Living Butterfly".
His creative background is the Chamber Ensemble and Composers' Association Konvergence, where he is an artistic director, composer and violist and also its co-founder. Most of the chamber works are composed for this ensemble, but he collaborates permanently with several ensembles in the Czech Republic (Ensemble Opera Diversa, BCO, Orchestra Berg, etc.) and abroad. Štochl's work is also recorded on two profile CDs - "On the Way to Kindness" (2011) and "Echo fragile" (2021).
Since 2010, he has been teaching composition and music theory at the Jan Deyl Conservatory in Prague, and he also regularly teaches composition at the composition courses "Postfest" in Kroměříž.