It was followed by Saint Zdislava (2001). The first of these oratorios is The Gnomes of the Valley of Křinice (1993) which was greeted by an enormous success at the author's graduating concert for the end of his conducting studies in Prague's Rudolfinum Hall. The apex of his work is his vast trilogy of oratorios for soli, children's and mixed choirs, organ and great symphonic orchestra. In 2015, the Czech Bishops’ Conference has awarded Bok for his church music and his activities for the Catholic Church. In a personal letter from 2006, Pope Benedict XVI has highlighted the quality and the conversional effect of Bok's music. His monumental Credo in F Sharp Minor (2006) also has to be pointed out, whose length exceeds the regular framework of the mass rites and constitutes the composer's personal confession. 2003), as well as many smaller works intended to accompany the liturgy, from festive mass songs (Lord, Have Mercy, 1996 Alleluia, Be Alive, 2007 I Believe in One Church, 2008.), through original adaptations of psalms and hymns (Hymn to the Holy Spirit, 2005 De Profundis, 2009 Psalm 131, 2010 Magnificat, 2011), cycles of Christmas carols (Symphonic Carols, 1998 Dreamy Carols, 2006), up to Choir songs for the Nový Dvůr Trappist monastery (2001). It was followed by several smaller pieces: the Missa Brevis in E flat major (1987) and Missa Brevis in F sharp major (1988, rev. His first finished work, the Missa Solemnis (1986), ranks among the most performed contemporary vocal-instrumental pieces (more than fifty performances, including one in Carnegie Hall, in 1999, and on Prague's St Vitus and Adalbert Cathedral, in 2015). Thus confined, his creation and activities have touched upon all music forms, and his work has given birth to a very distinctive original musical world. After his first unfinished attempts (a piano concerto and a symphony), his gradual conversion to Catholicism led him to realise that his role in life would be to lift church music up. Miloš Bok lives with his wife and seven children on a presbytery in the village of Močidlec, in Western Bohemia. In 2017, the Czech copyright protection Association OSA has awarded him with the awards of Most Successful Classical Music Composer and of Classical Composition of the Year. In 2002–2011, he has also been leading the Karlovy Vary Mixed Choir. As part of his pedagogic activities, since 1999, he is leading the Western Bohemia St Cecilia Sinfonietta, an ensemble formed of students of Karlovy Vary’s elementary and music schools in which he had been teaching during the years 1999–2016. Since 1987, he has been teaching in various music schools. He is an active organist in the dioceses of Plzeň and Litoměřice. In 1998, together with several other musicians and artists, he founded the Elgar Art Society. His work is documented on a whole series of recordings (over twenty-five CDs as of 2018 ), and he has been the subject and appeared in many programmes for the Czech Radio and the Czech Television. Numerous important Czech orchestras and choirs have performed under Bok's baton (the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague National Theatre Orchestra.). After the fall of the totalitarian regime, he has studied conducting under Mario Klemens, again at the Prague Conservatoire (1991–1993). Under the communist regime, he was prevented from studying conducting and composition. During his youth, he has won six prizes in various national and international piano competitions. He graduated in piano playing in 1988 at the Prague Conservatory under Jaromír Kříž and, shortly after, became pianist and composer Josef Páleníček’s last student at the Prague Academy of Music, where he studied until the latter's death (1991). Miloš Bok was born on 16 January 1968 in Prague.
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