Jan Kysela

is a multi-genre guitarist who specialises in acoustic guitar using fingerpicking style. He studied guitar at the Prague Music Academy with Prof. Petr Bierhanzl and collaborated with many singers and musical ensembles in the field of rock, pop music, country and jazz. The style diversity and a search for his own musical expression led him to solo acoustic guitar. His style can be described as an acoustic crossover fingerstyle guitar. In his play Jan uses percussive playing, flageolets and other techniques that simulate the sound of the whole band on a single instrument. In addition to his own compositions, he also performs his own adaptations of pop rock hits and a number of other songs from the field of jazz, Latin American music and roots music. In 2015 he released an instrumental album called Unspoken words. He is a professor at the Jaroslav Ježek Music Academy.