Petr Vrba is one of the most active figures in Czech experimental music and a tireless promoter of free improvisation. He plays trumpet, clarinet, synthesizers, and other electronic instruments. He collaborates with filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists and regularly performs with important figures on the European free improvisation scene (including Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Xavier Charles, Peter Orins and Franz Hautzinger) and experimental and sound artists such as Birgit Ulher, Yan Jun, Jérôme Noetinger, eRikm, and others. He co-founded and is a permanent member of the Prague Improvisation Orchestra and the groups Poisonous Frequencies, The MoND, Kesherul Neg Pineg, 4& and others. He has performed at festivals in Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia. He has released over fifty albums on labels such as Inexhaustible Edition, Circum-Disc, Another Timbre, Mikroton, Corvo, mappa, Kandala, and others, and on Czech labels such as Polí 5, Meteorismo, Klangundkrach, 13 raw, etc.

For over a quarter of a century, he has been broadcasting on Radio 1 (among other things, he is the co-author of the program 13 syrových), organizing concerts and festivals, and was the dramaturgist of the now defunct “communication space” Školská 28. In the late 1990s, he studied traditional gamelan instruments at the Institute of Art of Indonesia in Yogyakarta.

“As a trumpet player, Vrba explores the use of the trumpet in new contexts and the creation of new contexts through other means, both acoustic and electronic. In doing so, he demonstrates remarkable inventiveness driven by his fascination with the acoustic experience.” (composer and educator Jaroslav Šťastný aka Peter Graham on PV)