After graduating from the Conservatory in Brno where he studied the piano with Jaroslav Posadovský he then continued his studies at the Janáček Academy of Music in Brno – composition with Prof. Theodor Schaefer. Since 1964 he had been teaching composition and music theory at the Brno Conservatoire (until 1986).After his moving to Prague (1986) he was teaching composition at the Prague Conservatory (until recently). In his compositional output his instrumental chamber music compositions prevailed, but he has also written four symphonies, two Sinfoniettas and numerous instrumental concertos.