Honorary doctorates have been awarded to the pianist Rudolf Firkušný (a native of Brno), the poet Ludvík Kundera, the playwright Václav Havel and the poet and actor Jiří Suchý, with the most recent going to the Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard.
Ludvík Kundera (musicologist) (1891–1971), Czech musicologist and pianist who was head of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, father of Milan Kundera
Bachelor of Arts | Rock music | country music | Academy Awards | rock music | pop music | single (music) | 2004 in music | Heavy metal music | United States Military Academy | folk music | Russian Academy of Sciences | 2005 in music | 2006 in music | Hip hop music | 2003 in music | 1998 in music | 2001 in music | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | 1999 in music | music | 2000 in music | Single (music) | 2002 in music | 1997 in music | Pop music | Master of Arts | electronic music | classical music |
She was born in Modrý Kameň, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr and Miloslav Istvan at the Janáček Academy of Music.