Robert
Hanc

Robert Hanc became General Manager and Artistic Director of the Czech Philharmonic in February 2011, having previously worked for six years as Orchestra Manager of the Brno Philharmonic. At the Czech Philharmonic, he is responsible for developing the artistic concepts for the orchestra’s concerts and projects in Prague, their touring both in the Czech Republic and abroad, their chamber music presentations and their recording. He oversees the orchestra’s management and the staff planning its activities. 

Robert Hanc is an arts management lecturer at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and a consultant to the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Smetana’s Litomysl festival. He serves on the board of directors of the Czech Philharmonic Foundation. 

Hanc was born in Usti nad Labem, the Czech Republic 1977. At the age of eight, he began to sing in a choir and play the clarinet. He studied Music at the Conservatoire in Pardubice from 1992 to 1998 and Musicology and English Language and Literature at Masaryk University in Brno from 2000 to 2006. While there, he won a scholarship to Royal Holloway College (University of London) and another one to Bader College (Queen’s University). 

When studying at the conservatoire and then at university, he was a music teacher, including at a music school in Brno. He later became a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University.