Trivia

Father of Adam Klemens.

He briefly worked in Liberec as a teacher, and in 1961 he was admitted to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU).

Already as a little boy, Mario learned to play the piano, oboe, clarinet, and violin.

His grandmother led a music school in Chlumec, and his uncles and aunts were professionally involved in theatre and music as well.

His father was a printer and journalist, and his mother worked as a shop assistant in the local confectionery until her marriage, and later she worked in the CSAD bus company.

In 1966 he won an international competition for conductors in Besançon.

In 1947 he was admitted to an elite eight-year grammar school in Podebrady, which was modelled after English grammar schools. Among his schoolmates were boys who later became important personalities, such as Milos Forman, Václav Havel or Milan Jirásek.

He went to study conducting under V. Smetácek at the State Conservatoire in Prague, from which he graduated in 1959.

Even before completing his studies, he was offered to work as a conductor in the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. While in Pilsen, he also led the Orchestral Association of West Bohemian Teachers which played oratory music as well as concert compositions.

In 1979 he became a conductor in the FISYO (Film Symphonic Orchestra), and he held this position until 1990 when the orchestra became disbanded.

Mario Klemens was a Czech conductor and music teacher.

He began to teach conducting and orchestra play in 1976at the Prague Conservatoire.

He collaborated with many Czech and foreign recording companies.

In 1990-1994 he taught at the Prague Conservatoire.

He recorded with the Film Symphonic Orchestra music to more than 150 Czech and foreign films.

In 1970 he went to work for the Czechoslovak State Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances and he began cooperating with the foremost music ensembles (Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), Slovak Philharmonic, and others).

He went in 1972 to Kosice in Slovakia, where he worked as a conductor of the Kosice Philharmonic until 1976.