Daniel Bartak

Daniel Bartak was born in Prague, Czech Republic. He started learning piano playing when he was six and for seven years he was attending the Art School which he finished in 1994. In 1996 he successfully passed the exams to the State Conservatory of Prague, the specialization in musical - dramatic acting. In the same year he was chosen to sing the role of "Hercules" in the Czech version of the Walt Disney production. In 1998 he has recorded several songs for the cartoons and CD soundtrack with other leading Czech artists. 1998 he was engaged to play piano part with the orchestra in the musical show "Angel & Devil in One Body" in the Prague "HDK" Theatre. 1999 he went to study at the high school in California to learn the English as an exchange student (1999-2000). He started to study a musical role "Prince" for the "Cinderella" musical show and he has taken part in this production in the Prague GoJa Music Hall. In September 2001 he was offered another nice role in the Prague "Spirala" theater. It was the "Romeo" part in the Czech musical "Romeo & Juliett". Since 2001 - 2002 he was also working as a music arranger for SPAC (Seoul Performing Arts Company) in South Korea, where he successfully arranged two different musical shows, which were both winners of the best music in the musical show for years 2001 and 2002. In 2003 he played a piano and arranged a strings parts for a live DVD concert of very popular Czech band "Support Lesbiens". In the same year he starts to act in Czech version of "Les Misérables". The main work in 2004 - 2005 is that he produced a two CD's for a famous Czech singing artist Tomas Savka. In 2007 he is one of two leaders in a TV show, known as a "The Lyrics Board" every Friday night. From 2008 he was working as a music arranger for several music productions and since 2011 he has started to work as a music composer for movies. In 2016 he has also written very successful musical show "Mephisto", for theatre in Prague. At present apart from acting and singing he is composing and arranging music and he has recorded several projects for productions from Czech Republic and abroad.