Jiří Trtík is an internationally acclaimed Czech composer, a founder, and artistic director of the STRO.MY Ensemble, who received the OSA Award for the most successful composer of classical music abroad in 2021.

He has received a number of commissioned pieces for world-class institutions, ensembles, and performers, such as the National Theatre in Prague, Kremerata Baltica, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, members of the Lindemann Program of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and soloists of The Cleveland Orchestra.

His compositions have been premiered in Europe, the United States, and Japan. He is also the author of music for a number of art films - Glowing (2025), Eating the Future (2024), Wolves on the Border (2021), and The Green Widow (2014).

In 2021, he founded the STRO.MY Ensemble, which is an international musical ensemble based on an innovative approach to classical music and site-specific performances in non-traditional, architecturally interesting locations that often include visual and performative elements. STRO.MY Ensemble regularly performs both at home and abroad, which testifies to the ensemble's ability to transcend the boundaries of classical music and reach a wide audience.

The ensemble's most successful projects include the premiere of the site-specific performance Concert for the Forest, a European tour as part of the Year of Czech Music 2024, the world premiere of the opera Kafka's Letter to My Father commissioned by the National Theatre in Prague, or a concert at O2 universum in the fall of 2023.

Jiří has earned his Master of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied composition and conducting at the Prague Conservatory, and philosophy at the Charles University.

Jiří Trtík is a recipient of 2nd prize (1st was not given) and Special Prize for The Best Czech Composition at the International Composition Competition Generace 2019 at the Janáček International Music Festival in Ostrava. He also received first-prize at the Cleveland Composers Guild Fifth Annual Collegiate Composition Competition 2018, and won the WCSMS 2018 Promising Young Composers Competition. In 2018, Jiří Trtík was honored to receive the 2018 Donald Erb Prize in Composition.

Jiří publishes his music at the Czech Radio Music Publishing House.