1980-84: private musical studies with parents (composition and musical theory with his father, well-known composer Zdenek Zouhar, music history and other subjects with his mother)
1984-89 studied composition with Miloslav Istvan at the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno
1988 participant in summer composition course with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena
1989-90 teacher of music theory at the State Conservatory in Brno
1990-93 research student in composition with Alois Pinos at the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts
1991 recipient of a grant from the City of Graz, Austria
1991-92 studies in composition and electronic music in Graz, with Younghi Pagh-Paan and Hermann Markus Pressl at the Music Academy and Helmut Dencker at the Institute for Electronic Music
since 1992 to date assistant in music theory at the Palacky University in Olomouc
1992 - 2004 lecturer at the Institute for Electronic Music, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria
1993 guest composer on the Bewegungen project at the Institute for Electronic Music, Graz; concluded research studentship at the Janacek Academy, Brno
1994 guest artist at WERKSTADT GRAZ
since 1995 member of the Bohuslav Martinu Foundation committee
since 2003 vice-president (he is involved in the preparation of the critical edition of Martinu\'s works)
1996 - 2001 - postgraduate studies at the Janacek\'s Academy of Perfoming Arts (2001, Ph.D.)
1999 - 2001 - repertory manager of the festival Exposition of New Music in Brno
since 2000 - member of jury of the young composer\'s competition GENERACE in Ostrava
2000 - received a commission to compose an opera for the festival Baroko 2000 (Coronide)
2001 - received a commission by the Central European Percussion Ensemble Brno DAMA DAMA (Petite sirene)
2001 - commissioned by Ars Incognita and Prague Spring Festival (And Coronis left her look)
2001 - he founded and he still is a leader of the educational project Listen to it differently, focused on the composing of children in the process of learning music in school
2003 - a commission to compose an opera by the festival Baroko and Ensemble Damian (Torso)
2003 - commissioned by the festival New Music Exposition in Brno and Malle Symen Quartet - (Circles of Levels)
2003 - 2006 - vice-dean for science, research and foreign contacts at the Faculty of Education of the Palacky University in Olomouc
2004 - reconstruction of Poeme électronique by Edgard Varése na IEM Graz
2004 - Poeme électronique binaural - reconstruction of the electro-acoustic compositions by Edgara Varése for virtual 3D animation, in cooperation with the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe a Universität für Musik u. darstellende Kunst Graz
2004 - commissioned by the festivals Concentus Moraviea a České sny (Czech Dreams) and Duo Ardašev (Drásnění)
2004 - National Theatre in Prague, Pounding on the Iron Curtain IX., staging of his operas Coronide, Torso
2005 - commissioned by the IEM, Univesität für Musik u. darstellende Kunst Graz - to compose Multiple Gesture
2005 - commissioned by the National Theatre in Brno (opera Noci Dnem)
2005 - commissioned by Ars Incognita and festival Prague Premieres (Le Ro)
2005 - To Listen Differently at the festival New Music Exposition Brno, workshop of composing for pupils of secondary and high schools (Bishop\'s gymnasium Brno, Walldorf school Brno, Primary school Hamry Brno, HF JAMU, PdF UP)
2006 - commissioned by festival Mladé pódium Pardubice (Ritorni)
2006 - To Listen Differently - animated musical programs - composing in the classrooms (Fakultní základní škola Olomouc, Hálkova, Základní škola Olomouc, Droždín, Slovanské gymnázium Olomouc, Gymnázium Olomouc-Hejčín, Střední pedagogická škola Přerov, HF JAMU, PdF UP)
2006 - Czech Radio 3 Vltava - commission to compose incidental music for the production of Tartuffe
2007 - commissioned by ensemble MoEns (M, TRASA M)

Awards

1981 - prizewinner in composition competition organized by Czechoslovak Radio
1987 - second prizewinner in young composers\' competition organized by the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and the High School of Performing Arts in Bratislava with the wind quintet The Time of Good Hopes
1988 - Czech Music Fund prize for The Time of Good Hopes; Czech Music Fund prize for Agastia
1989 - Czech Music Fund prize for The Gate of the Sun; second prizewinner in young composers\' competition organized by the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Janacek Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and the High School of Performing Arts in Bratislava (Agastia)
1992 - second prize in the GENERACE \'92 composition competition with And Yet Always in My Dreams
1993 - Czech Performing Rights Society Foundation award for the orchestral work Close Encounters of the Heart\'s Frenzies
1994 - Czech Music Fund Foundation award for Close Encounters of the Heart\'s Frenzies second prizewinner of the GENERACE \'93 composition competition with Six Pianos
1995 - second prize in the GENERACE \'94 composition competition with As Water Is
1995 - electro-acoustic music competition MUSICA NOVA \'95, honorary mention: Wide Crossing
1996 - second prize in the GENERACE ´95 (Dunes)
1997 - Society of composers
1997 - Musica Iuventis
2005 - Opera Torso was nominated for the stage production of the year
2005 - stage production of the opera Noci Dnem was nominated to the event of the year
2005 - prize of the rector of the Palacky University in Olomouc for his book Postmodern music?
2006 - medal of J. A. Comenius