{{Short description|Czech music educator, violoncellist and university educator (1931–2009)}}
'''Josef Chuchro''' (3 July 1931 – 19 August 2009) was a Czech cellist.
==Life and career== Josef Chuchro was born on 3 July 1931 in Prague.<ref name=bnf>{{cite web |title=Chuchro, Josef (1931–2009) forme internationale |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138925011 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |access-date=26 October 2025}}</ref> His father Josef Chuchro senior (1903–1975), who was an organist, provided him with the basics of musical education. He studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Prof. Karel Pravoslav Sádlo, and went on to teach, becoming, from 1990 to 1997, Dean of the Academy of Performing Arts.<ref name=chs>{{cite web |title=Chuchro, Josef - Charakteristika: Violoncellista a pedagog |trans-title=Chuchro, Josef - Characteristics: Cellist and teacher |url=https://slovnik.ceskyhudebnislovnik.cz/component/mdictionary/?task=record.record_print&tmpl=component&id=3988 |work=Český hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czech musical dictionary of persons and institutions) |language=cs|access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Zemřel prof. Josef Chuchro |trans-title=Prof. Josef Chuchro has died. |url=https://www.casopisharmonie.cz/aktuality/zemrel-prof-josef-chuchro/ |website=Časopis Harmonie |access-date=27 October 2025 |language=cs |date=22 September 2009}}</ref> Among his students were: Jiří Bárta, :cs:Mikael Ericsson, and {{ill|Tomáš Jamník|cs}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Teacher: Josef Chuchro |via=Wayback Machine |url=http://www.cellist.nl/?id=2632 |website=www.cellist.nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627114014/http://www.cellist.nl/?id=2632 |access-date=27 October 2025 |archive-date=27 June 2015 }}</ref>
He was awarded first prize in the Prague Spring Festival of 1955,<ref name= "jubileum"/> and first prize in the Casals second International Cello Contest of 1959, held in Mexico.<ref name= "jubileum"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farrell |first1=Peter |last2=Rowell |first2=Margaret |title=Pablo Casals Second International Cello Contest |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/000313135900900210 |journal=American String Teacher |access-date=27 October 2025 |pages=8–12 |language=EN |doi=10.1177/000313135900900210 |date=1 May 1959 |volume=9 |issue=2 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
He was a member of the Suk Trio (in which he replaced the founding cellist, Saša Večtomov), from 1952, and the Prague Cello Duo (founded in 1979 with his son Jan).{{cn|date=October 2025}} In 1961, he was appointed soloist of the Czech Philharmonic.<ref name= "jubileum"/>
Chuchro died on 19 August 2009 in Prague.<ref name=bnf/><ref name="nkp">{{cite web|url=https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/53M3Q5PL7G69KF3IQHNGCDAFBLU4J8UET7FI85R9DU9YKSAI7H-43262?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&x=18&y=10&request=Josef+Chuchro&filter_code_1=WTP&filter_request_1=&adjacent=N |title=Výsledky dotazu: Slova-Autoři/Korp.=Josef Chuchro |trans-title=Results for: Words-All fields= Josef Chuchro |website=Souborný katalog České republiky (Union Catalog of the Czech Republic)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hudební fakulta AMU – životopis |trans-title=Faculty of Music, AMU – biography |url=http://www.hamu.cz/katedry/katedra-strunnych-nastroju/chuchro-josef |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610071831/http://www.hamu.cz/katedry/katedra-strunnych-nastroju/chuchro-josef |archive-date=2009-06-10 |access-date=2025-10-27 |website=www.hamu.cz |language=cs}}</ref>
==Recordings== The complete recording of Beethoven's sonatas and variations for cello and piano performed by Josef Chuchro and Jan Panenka received an Award of Merit.{{clarify|reason=Which award/ from whom? Ref archived 2012-01-11|date=October 2025}}
Josef Chuchro recorded 38 solo gramophone records, 9 of them with the Czech Philharmonic, and among the recordings 40 chamber music compositions.<ref name= "jubileum">{{Cite web |title=Josef Chuchro {{!}} jubileum |trans-title=Žižkov (festival) performer profiles: Josef Chuchro jubilee |website=Životopis na webu Žižkov.cz |url=http://www.zizkov.cz/clanek.asp?id=74 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111054130/http://www.zizkov.cz/clanek.asp?id=74 |archive-date=2012-01-11 |access-date=2025-10-27 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.discogs.com/artist/835213-Josef-Chuchro Recordings by Chuchro listed] at discogs.org *[https://ndk.cz/search?q=Josef%20Chuchro Entries for Chuchro at the Czech National Digital Library] *[https://beliana.sav.sk/heslo/chuchro-josef Entry for Chuchro in the Encyclopedia Beliana] (Centre of Joint Activities of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
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Category:1931 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Musicians from Prague Category:Czech classical cellists Category:20th-century Czech male musicians Category:Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Category:Prague Conservatory alumni Category:Recipients of the Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) {{Cello-stub}}