Michal Svoboda was born in Znojmo (Czech Republic) in 1985. He started his guitar studies with Stanislav Jurica at Pardubice conservatory. He studied with Alexander Swete at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and finished his masters degree with honors in 2011. Then he studied with Tomasz Zawirucha at the conservatory in Feldkirch, Austria. Michal has attended a variety of master courses, for instance with Zoran Dukio, Pablo Marquez and Hopkinson Smith, and has also achieved great success at international guitar competitions, including first place at the International Guitar Competition in Treviso and second place at the International Guitar Festival in Gevelsberg. This is his first recording project, for which he has chosen the works of composers Augustin Barrios (1885-1944) and Miguela Llobet (1878-1938).
