The composer and music teacher Jaromir Bazant started to study composition under a famous Pilsner composer and professor of the Pilsner College of Music, Josef Bartosovsky, who recommended that he go on to the State Conservatoire in Prague. Here he studied composition with E. Hlobil and the oboe with V. Smetacek. In parallel with his conservatory studies, he studied piano privately with B. Kabelacova, passing his state teacher's examination in 1950. After graduating from the Conservatory (in 1951), he started to work as a composer at the Army Artistic Ensemble of Vit Nejedly. After his army service, Jaromir Bazant began to teach at the Music School of Bedrich Smetana in Pilsen (1953 - 58). In the following five years he was an oboist with the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra at Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), and since 1962 he has been teaching at the Conservatoire in Pilsen. From 1963 to 1967 he attended courses in composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, studying with P. Borkovec, V. Dobias and J. Pauer, and between 1968 and 1970 he underwent a post-graduate course in the theory and history of music with K. Janecek and K. Risinger.
Jaromir Bazant is particularly noted for his compositions for the accordion. As a matter of fact, he is a pioneer as well as an acknowledged composer of this type of music which makes ample use of the colour possibilities of the instrument. His works are frequently performed not only in the Czech Republic, also in Germany, the United States, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and elsewhere, forming part and parcel of the repertoire of various accordion competitions.
Since 1973 Jaromir Bazant has been devoting himself more to vocal compositions, specializing in setting to music texts marked by a particulary warm relationship to his home and native country.
Generally speaking, Jaromir Bazant' s music has won the hearts of both music lovers and performing artists through its melodic and rhythmic invention, ingenuity of compositional techniques, well-arranged and well-defined forms and consonant order (the artist is known to apply the principle ot free tonality). Bazant is very successful in composing music for children in particular, and he has dedicated to children many of his choral and instrumental works, as well as some of his accordion compositions.
Bazant' s musical theoretical work was aimed at piano improvisation. This stemmed into a specialist work of 'Methodology of Piano Improvisation'. It is the largest work of its kind (268 pages). It was published by Eset in Pilsen 1997. Both its broad musical education (the piano, the oboe, musical theory, composition) and experience in the musical profession enabled him to pass both the theoretical and practical knowledge on to his students in the ideal form.