Musical educator, bandleader, played ten instruments in various groups. From 1966, he was a teacher in the People's Art School in Strakonice. During this time, he was also the bandleader of the school's wind ensemble. His older members stood at the origin of the wind ensemble ČEZETA in 1971. In the 1990s he founded the small wind group Nektarka, consisting mostly of his former students. He nurtured hundreds of musicians during his life. In 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Strakonice.