Jan Valta
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director (*1977)
Jan Valta (born 1977) is a Czech composer, conductor, and violinist, best known for his work on the video game series Kingdom Come: Deliverance. He also worked as an orchestrator for Atli Örvarsson for the Czech film Colette.
Early life
Valta was born in 1977 in Prague. According to an interview on KCD's website, Valta was born into a family of classical music. His father, also named Jan, was a composer while his mother was a pianist, and Valta himself began playing the violin at age five. Valta said he "grew up" with classical composers like Antonín Dvořák, Mozart and Maurice Ravel, which influenced his later works. He graduated from the Teplice Conservatoire where he studied both violin and conducting as well as the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he studied the violin. During his studies he was a prizewinner at a nation-wide competition of chamber music; he is also a prizewinner of the Czech Conservatories Competition. He and Sporka are cousins.
Work on Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Valta began working on the soundtrack for KCD with Adam Sporka in the summer of 2014 for the alpha teaser trailer.
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